Mr, Ms or first name? How teachers decide - Education Review

Mr, Ms or first name? How teachers decide - Education Review

When you went to school, did you call your teacher Mrs, Ms or Mr, followed by their surname? Perhaps you even called them Sir or Miss. The tradition of addressing teachers in a formal manner goes back centuries. For many of us, calling a teacher by their first name would have been unthinkable. But that’s not automatically the case anymore. Some teachers in mainstream schools now ask students to call them by their first name. Why is this? And wha…