Connect With Your Students: How to Build Positive Teacher-Student Relationships

Book excerpt: Teachers with relationships at the core of their practice can go into virtually any classroom, in any school, and succeed with even the most belligerent, difficult students. After all, it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that students will generally behave better and work harder for teachers they know, like and trust. In this resource, you’ll learn some of the best, fast-acting ideas and strategies for building positive relationships with hard-to-reach students and becoming the teacher they respect and value. And when you implement these ideas in your classroom you will see RAPID improvements in the way your students treat you and respond to you. Building positive relationships with your students and creating a warm classroom community is, without doubt, one of the most effective classroom management strategies and teaching tools at your disposal – and this book shows you exactly how to do so in the shortest possible time. You’ll discover… - the only two things you need to concentrate on if you want to build relationships with your students in the shortest possible time – how to strike up meaningful conversations with students (even if they never normally want to speak to you), - how to get your most troublesome students on your side (works like magic!), - how to get students to trust and respect you (fast!), - why disciplining students can be the BEST time to build a positive relationship and how to do it – HUNDREDS of activities for building bonds and creating classroom community. Once you learn the Needs-Focused System, your classroom, your teaching and your students will be TRANSFORMED. Includes downloadable BONUS material and printable resources.