RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Abstract

Improving students' relationships with teachers has significant, positive, and long-term effects on both their academic and social development. If students do not improve their relationships with their teachers, they will not succeed. However, students who have close, positive, and supportive relationships with their teachers will be more successful than students who have more conflict in their relationships. Imagine a student who feels a strong personal connection with his teacher, who speaks frequently with his teacher, and who receives more constructive guidance and praise than just criticism from his teacher. The student is more likely to trust his teacher, to be more involved in learning, to behave better in the classroom, and to excel at academically.

Positive teacher-student relationships engage students in the learning process and increase their desire to learn (given that classroom content is engaging, age-appropriate, and appropriate to the student's abilities). Teachers who build positive relationships with their students create a more conducive classroom environment for learning and meet students' developmental, emotional, and academic needs. Teachers who have a negative relationship with a student show frustration, irritability, and anger toward that student. Teachers can express their negativity through ridicule and sarcasm against the student, or describe how they always struggled or clashed with a particular student.

The article explores this area and provides guidelines for student-teacher relations needed to create a better learning environment.