Formal titles create respect

According to U.S. News, Pierce College’s student to faculty ratio is 25-to-1.

This means that teachers have many students to focus on in a classroom. Using formal titles helps establish that level of respect and helps professors maintain control over their classes.

By creating a professional relationship, students will feel as though they should be attentive and hard-working in class. If teachers don’t establish class ground rules with their students, it can lead to students being disrespectful in a classroom and creating a poor learning environment.

Using formal titles helps create a controlled and respectful setting that helps teachers

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In other words, students don’t simply call teachers by their first name because they feel they are comfortable, they do it sometimes to purposely frustrate the professor. When students use first names, it creates an informal relationship where the student does not take the instructor seriously.

Students will feel more comfortable to go on their phone, turn in assignments late or play around in class because they think the teacher and them are buddies.

Professors do so much for students to try and help them. Using a formal title is an easy way for students to show them the appreciation they deserve.

Creating a formal and professional relationship with students gives the teacher more control over the classroom, which leads to students taking the class and work more serious.