The ability to forge a positive, powerful relationship between a student and teacher may seem like a difficult task first but can be easily accomplished by creating a strong learning environment. While students learn a particular subject from a teacher, the teacher learns how to improve her teaching skills and make the lessons more interesting by gaining insights from the students.
- Healthy Communication
A consistent and healthy communication between the teacher and student is crucial. A teacher who understands the problems of his or her students and then shapes his or her teaching style in order to interact better with the student can see success, but this takes not simply observation, but communication.
- Trust and Respect
The foundation of any relationship is mutual respect and trust. The teachers that show respect towards their students and are keen to help them through their difficulties become the object of respect themselves and it triggers a passion among students to learn and make their teachers proud.
- A Safe Environment
Students need to feel safe when asking questions, safe in the belief that they won’t be taunted or criticized and that their question or comment will be answered with patience and respect.
- Equity
Disparity in learning is a barrier to academic performance. Whether you’re talking about technology access, access to literature, or related socioeconomic trends, equity matters.
Our first job as teachers is to make sure that we learn our students, that we connect with them on a real level, showing respect for their culture and affirming their worthiness to receive the best education possible. This foundational relationship has allowed me to stretch, embrace and provoke, when necessary, to help my students reach self-actualization. Their learning and high achievement were just the fruits of this labor. But the truth is before the seed is planted, the ground must first be prepared.
"A good education can change anyone; a good teacher can change everything.”
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