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Recommended: Teacher and students relationship

Mikayla Bloyder
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I really enjoyed this chapter on relationships between students and teachers because I was able to relate to the idea of a good relationship improving the learning in the classroom. In second grade, I had a teacher who really reached out and made good relationships and I have wanted to be a teacher who can make an impact on students’ learning and lives ever since. I think most would agree, and studies have shown, that good student/teacher relationships are important in the classroom but in this chapter the author went even deeper and discussed the how open a teacher should be. On page 62, the author listed three kinds of relationships that could take place in the classroom. After thinking about the choices, I found myself between the two and the three. I want to be as open as possible with my students but not about anything and everything in life. I think there are appropriate boundaries where it is ok to talk about out-of-school life but that it should be relatable to the students, such as a game that happened over the weekend or an event in the town. I think it is important to be able to have personal conversations with students but I think it is best to focus the conversation on them and be open with relatable stories or comments that will build the relationship. …show more content…

I found this section relatable and interesting as just the day before I had had an experience that caused me to think through what was appropriate. The girls in the classroom I am observing asked me if I would go out to recess and play with them and then if I would sit with them at lunch. Although it was very sweet, I could see how this would hurt the student/teacher relationship I was trying to build. I responded by telling them that because I was there to learn how to be a teacher, I was going to eat with the

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