Students Having A Crush On Their Teacher??

Would you consider yourself as attractive?

I remember when one particular teacher started at our all-girls school - half the kids were head over heels for him. Trouble was, he went along with it, for the older students (15/16). Playing along if they made flirty comments, sharing a chair with them when he was going over their work, stuff like that. I don't think he was ever formally disciplined but it certainly made the rest of the girls get suspicious. And then there was the one that emailed students from his private account to talk about what he did at the weekend and so on - nothing sexual (we think) but he still got fired and got a teaching ban for five years.

My advice is, don't play along with it. At all. If they try being flirty, just blank them, don't even take a second glance, just answer the question and carry on with whatever you were doing. If you're concerned that it's getting particularly bad, maybe talk to someone about dealing with the issue, I'm not sure. And don't agree to one-to-one lessons with the usual suspects. Have another teacher or another couple of students there. It's unfortunate, but if they try anything on it'll be your word against theirs.

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The consequences last a lot longer than those pleasurable five seconds of flirting. Don't.

Having started a teaching position recently I find, as a male, this side of the job a bit uncomfortable.

I get weird/inappropriate comments from female students in lesson and as I am walking around the building. In lesson I see giggling and hear strange things. My reaction is always to ignore them.

I dont really want to ignore them as I want to help them learn and develop but their inappropriate behavior is stopping me doing that.

Any thoughts or advise?

Has to be a troll. You can't be stupid enough to ask for advice on a situation regarding inappropriate behaviour from students on a site with students as it's majority demographic. If you are ... God help you.

see this is what is so hot...
plus you obviously being physically attractive.

I wouldn't flirt but does that mean I can't make any jokes or say something other than things about their work? Because I'm finding that difficult - I know my teachers would talk about everything with us?

It just makes thing really awkward in lesson, I don't know where to look sometimes.

Talking about non school related things should be okay- just DO NOT respond to any flirting/suggestive comments, at all. If it's a specific student that's being problematic maybe ask another member of staff to speak to them and ask them to stop.

Wanting the students to do well and helping them develop as people is very noble but don't put yourself in a position where you can be accused of being inappropriate- rumours spread like wildfire and the last thing you want is your reputation to be marred and sometimes protecting it will come at the cost of (not) helping those students.

I know that probably isn't what you want to hear but better safe than sorry

Sorry to keep going on.

So if they say hello, should I blank them? Isn't that kind of rude and wouldn't that make them upset. I normally divert the attention to make them do work.

But then going back to my school days I seem to remember having conversations with my teachers about all kinds of things, relationships, their weekends etc?

I'm sorry?