If you want to command your student's attention, look the part. Clowns, purple dinosaurs, giant mice, these are larger than life characters that kids are tuned into. I am not saying that all teachers should dress like clowns, but I am saying that it would be foolish not to recognize that there is power in being visually arresting.
I admit that if all teachers wore bow ties we would look like an army of ice cream men for 1950, but since they don't, it gives me a unique visual branding. I try to wear a bow tie everyday for the first month of class, after that the kids know me as the "bow tie guy." I know the bow tie alone doesn't do it, but have a "uniform" helps me to develop and support my super excited teacher persona.
If I was born beautiful this post would be about the importance of being visually pleasing, but working with what I was given I can say a well-developed goofy look can be an invisible ally.
If I was born beautiful this post would be about the importance of being visually pleasing, but working with what I was given I can say a well-developed goofy look can be an invisible ally.
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