Importance of Building Good Peronal Relationships Between Teachers and Students

     Good personal relationships between teachers and students rapid and facilitate the learning process.  Positive teacher- student relationships are important to students’ achievement because they impact the climate and management of a classroom.  One of the most important things that affect the relationship between teacher and students is the students’ feeling in the class.  The students must feel respected, engaged, and appreciated.  This will increase their productive and attentive. For this reason, the teacher should be aware of how to deal with the students, when to be strict with them and when to have fun with them.  The teacher should acknowledge her students by standing in front the class and greeting students individually as they enter the class every day.  She should notice when the students are not participating and encouraging them students to participate and maintaining eye contact with them through explaining and while they are giving answers.  Also, she should respond to their answers by giving feedback such as paraphrasing what they said, giving nonverbal responses, or praising them for a specific great thing they did.