Embracing Relational Teaching

Book excerpt: When you shift to relational pedagogy, you establish connections that help students feel valued, respected, and heard, which leads to enhanced student engagement. Author Anthony R. Reibel explores this approach, offering strategies and activities to make everyday interactions, such as instruction, assessment, reflection, and grading, more meaningful through student-teacher relationships. The result is higher levels of social-emotional and academic learning. This book will help K–12 teachers and administrators: Understand the meaning of relational pedagogy Gain the ability to organize curriculum to focus on student-centered learning Utilize reflection tools to better build relational assessments Learn to implement observational learning and avoid transactional instructional models Develop deeper relationships with students Contents: Introduction: Doing the Invisible Work Part 1: Foundational Principles Chapter 1: Relationships as the Foundation for Effective Pedagogy Chapter 2: The Relational Teacher Part 2: Relational Practices Chapter 3: The Relational Curriculum Chapter 4: Relational Instruction Chapter 5: Relational Assessment Chapter 6: Relational Feedback Chapter 7: Relational Grading Epilogue References and Resources Index