Why the teacher should be on the side of the child Each teacher has his own strategy for teaching and communicating with children: someone is trying to become an authority, and someone wants to be on the same wavelength with them. Our new blogger, teacher Natalia Goncharova, believes that the key to success is to take the side of the child and learn with him. I started my professional career as a university teacher and got to school by accident. Rather, the MSU SUNTS could hardly be called an ordinary secondary school.