Rapport between Students and Teachers

A good relationship between the teacher and the student can serve to enhance the learning process. In most cases, the teacher has the capacity for establishing good rapport by observing the following principles of human nature and by employing practices which take advantage of the following principles.

1. Students respect confidence.

2. Students perform as they are expected to perform.

3. Students have a need for self-respect.

4. Students desire direction as they strain for freedom.

5. Students imitate.

6. Students appreciate choices.

7. Students need to be heard and understood.

8. Students respect honesty and fairness in others.

9. Students are as teachers were before they were teachers.