Establishing Positive Teacher
Establishing Positive Teacher- Student Relationships
Chapter 3 Jones and Jones
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Creating a Healthy Classroom
Healthy classroom management is about building healthy classrooms and promoting student wellness.
The foundation of the healthy classroom is built on the interpersonal relationships.
teacher students relationships
the relationships students have with each other
Healthy relationships require positive motivation, communication, and discipline.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Creating a Healthy Classroom
A healthy classroom is a classroom with little or no interference from disruptive student behavior.
Establishment of teacher-student relationships that foster student commitment and cooperation is critical
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Creating a Healthy Classroom
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- The traditional emphasis on content and control can make it difficult to build relationships.
- Thomas Lickona, psychologist, urges teachers to use bonding to improve behavior noting that, “when teachers bond with their students, they increase academic learning and their moral influence on students.” (Bluestein,2008)
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Mutual Respect and Trust
- Creating the healthy classroom is a process.
- Respect and trust lie at the core of healthy interpersonal relationships.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Mutual Respect and Trust
- Trust: A firm belief/confidence in the honesty, integrity, reliability and fairness of the teacher and/or student.
- Trust is a two way street; it involves both the ability to trust others and the quality of being trustworthy ourselves.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Mutual Respect and Trust
A commitment to build trust must be backed by actions
e.g. protect students from humiliation/unnecessary
criticism, allowing them to perform with comfort and
security
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
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EQUALITY: Advancement in our social system has moved toward a society that demands that people, regardless of race, gender, disability, ethnic background, or age have the right to be treated as equals
. As a result, schools are also experiencing these positive changes and student-teacher relationships have gone through significant transition and change.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
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U.S. demographics is changing rapidly. The National Multicultural Institute (1997) reported that: (1) over the next 20 years the U.S. will grow by 42 million. Hispanics will account for 47% of the growth, Blacks 22%, Asians 18% and Whites 13%. In 1988, The American Council on Education reported that by 2000, one-third of all school age children and 42% of all public school age children will be of ethnic minority backgrounds.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Critical Issues
- Minorities with the worst health status and poorest access to health care live in communities that have inadequate housing, poor nutrition, poor sanitation, and high rates of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
- Teachers must maintain the exceptional students self esteem.
- Laws (e.g., IDEA, Section 504, ADA) make it impossible for any educator or student not to encounter exceptional students in their teaching and everyday experiences.
- It is imperative that all teachers be trained to be sensitive to the needs of exceptional students.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Critical Issues
3. The Power of the Student How students think, work, and feel dictates the direction and success of the classroom and school.
Students are full of energy, imagination, enterprise and when given encouragement, they develop motivation and hope
It is obvious that mismanaging students will create costly liabilities for the classroom and school
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. Teachers must be careful not to diminish any students dreams of finding himself or herself and their place in school and society.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
- Critical Issues
4. Common Goals: The goals of students and teachers are complementary.
Students are in the process of growing, developing and trying to determine who they are and what role they will play in life.
Many young people will use school as a means to that end.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Developmental tasks that are critical for young people to accomplish:
(1) forming an initial self-identity,
(2) establishing a sense of relative independence,
(3) assuming increased levels of responsibility, and
(4) developing the social skills needed for social interaction.
Payne and Hahn (1995)
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Note: These are some of the same goals teachers have for their students: responsibility, self-reliance, self discipline, and social interactions. These are also the same goals of a healthy classroom.
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Establishing Positive Teacher-Student Relationships
Methods for Communicating Caring and Support
Get to know students of different cultural backgrounds
Demonstrate interest in students’ activities
Eat lunch with students
Arrange interviews between teacher and student
Use a suggestion box
Join school/community events
Join in playground games
Use culturally sensitive communication
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