Get Your Students Hired
I find that the guide and controller are the best styles, especially in combination. Throwing in a little buddy in there doesn't hurt either. The guide helps with being able to guide students that are struggling with class and the controller helps with reigning in class that wants to get out of hand. I play the guide most of the time and that seems to help me keep the students interested and engaged.
I like to be more of a three way combination, primarily the guide and controller the majority of the time, but i am a little bit of the buddy as well. I do care about my students well being and will talk to them when I think personel problems are getting in the way of their professional developement.
I agree that this works about 80% of the time, but what happens when you throw the ball back into their court............" all I did was ask a question! She has a bad attitude". Sometimes student's perceptions are twisted into thinking that we have to give them all of the answers. In the roll of controller, it is stated the same, where is the median?