Using language, one, look at the questions, then read the text on page forty four and try to answer them. How do I know my students? As an educator, people often ask me how I know what is going on in the minds of my students. Many students are quite shy and don't speak all that much at the same time. In a classroom of more than forty students, IT is hard to have many one on one conversations with each person. So how can I really know what makes each student tick? My answer, I look at their body language. IT is easy to recognize. When students are interested in a lesson, most tend to look up and make I contact. When I make a joke, they smile. When I talk about something difficult, they look confused. I know when students are really interested, however, because they leaned forward and look at me, people have a tendency to lean towards whatever they are interested in. So if a student has his head lowered to look at his watch, IT implies he is bored in just counting the minutes for the class to end. If two friends are leaning their heads together, they are probably writing notes to each other. Of course, not everyone who looks up as paying attention in class, some students look up, but there is an absence of I contact, their rise, barely move, and they always have the same distant expression on their faces. IT is as though they are asleep with their eyes open. Some students are amused by something else. They spend all their time looking anywhere but at me. Then again, some students favorite activity is daydreaming with their chins on their hands. They occupy themselves by staring out of the window or up at the ceiling. They are certainly interested in something, but who knows what? The main thing is reminding distracted students that they need to pay attention in class. While IT is easy to perceive when students are interested, bored or distracted, IT is sometimes much harder to distinguish when students are troubled. Students who are angry, afraid or experiencing anxiety may have their arms crossed in front of their chests and their legs closed or crossed like they are guarding their bodies. Students who are sad or worried will nearly always wear a frown. They may also hide their faces in their hands like they are embarrassed or ashamed. Some students asked this way nearly because they are afraid of being called on by the teacher. However, if a student does not bother to brush her hair and her eyes are read from leaking, then I can infer that there are deep issues at work IT could be that he is having serious conflicts with other students or at home. Whatever IT is, I know I need to inquire and assess what is going on. Ultimately, my duty is helping every student to learn their body language. Lets me know when to adjust class activities, when to intervene, and when to talk to students individually, so they can all get the most out of school. Reacting to body language is an important component of being a teacher.