How to Improve your relationship with the student as a teacher.

Improving students' relationships with teachers is important, positive and has long-lasting implications for both students' academic and social and holistic development. Solely improving students' relationships with their teachers will not produce gains in achievement. However, those students who have close, positive and supportive relationships with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.

Picture a student who feels a strong personal connection to her teacher, talks with her teacher frequently, and receives more constructive guidance and praise rather than just criticism from her teacher. The student is likely to trust her teacher more, show more engagement in learning, behave better in class and achieve at higher levels academically. Positive teacher-student relationships draw students into the process of learning and promote their desire to learn (assuming that the content material of the class is engaging, age-appropriate and well matched to the student's skills).

Knowing a student's interests can help you create examples to match those interests.

• If a student who loves foottball comes to you with a question about a math problem, you might respond to her with a problem involving football.

Knowing a student's temperament can help you construct appropriate learning opportunities.

• If a student in your class is particularly distracted, you can support her efforts to concentrate by offering her a quieter area in which to work.
• If a student in your classroom is very shy, appears engaged but never raises his hand to ask questions, you can assess his level of understanding of a concept in a one-on-one conversation at the end of class

Meaningful feedbacks

• Giving students meaningful feedback that says you care about them and their learning, or are you constantly telling your students to hurry?
• In your conversations, are you focusing on what your students have accomplished or are you concentrating your comments on what they have not yet mastered?
• Does your body language, facial expression and tone of voice show your students that you are interested in them as people too?
• Are you paying more attention to some students than to others

Positive Classroom environment

Be sure to allow time for your students to link the concepts and skills they are learning to their own experiences. Build fun into the things you do in your classroom. Plan activities that create a sense of community so that your students have an opportunity to see the connections between what they already know and the new things they are learning, as well as have the time to enjoy being with you and the other students. Make sure to provide emotional support and set high expectations for learning.

Being sensitive and respectful;

Supportive teacher-student relationships are just as important to middle and high school students as they are to elementary students. Positive relationships encourage students' motivation and engagement in learning. Older students need to feel that their teachers respect their opinions and interests just as much as younger students do. Even in situations where adolescents do not appear to care about what teachers do or say, teacher actions and words do matter and may even have long term positive (or negative) consequences.