Personal Reflection Essay

The article, Relationship Building with Teacher Colleagues by Jordan Catapano discusses the importance of spending time building relationships with

Forming and maintaining positive relationships within a school setting is of great importance. To have good relationships with pupils, staff and parents is not only beneficial to the school but also to pupil’s achievement.

While I appreciated that one of my peers provided feedback on my work, I feel that the feedback that was provided did not fulfill the assignment. My peer did not provide detailed feedback on my paper that could be adequately incorporated in my review and revisions. Most of the information that was provided as feedback were simply statements that reiterated what the prompt question was. Please see the below feedback provided to me by my peer.

The article, “Creating Birds of Similar Feathers” concerns, issues and topics related to the importance of the teacher-student relationships (TSRs) since it increases students’ performance in class. Therefore, this article relates to teaching and learning because having a good teacher-student relationship is one of the main ingredients in making a classroom well-organized, student-friendly, and comfortable. Without this, teachers would experience difficulty in teaching his or her students as well as for students to learn a lesson if there is lack of communication. From this article, the two points that I found important to the topic are 1) Students learn best and score higher when proper communication and relationship is applied in class; and 2) Teachers should start the first day of class through social activities.

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Relationships in the class are very important. Students need personal skills to control themselves and social skills to have empathy for others. If students feel connections with the teacher and other students, it is more comfortable to develop a relationship that enhances learning.

Establishing rapport with students is extremely important. Students should feel like a teacher genuinely cares about their well-being. Trust is an important component of the classroom learning environment. A student should respect and trust his or her teacher and the teacher should be respectful of his or her students and their families. This will encourage a nurturing learning environment and decrease behavioral problems in the classroom. When the teacher is consistently supporting the rules, and allowing the students to feel safe in the classroom, trust begins to develop. Teachers have to work to develop trust and respect in the classroom due to the fact that children in today’s world are often mistrusting because of society’s messages of the world being dangerous (world-view) as well as their own direct experiences (self-view) with abuse, violence, and neglect.

I went to a school with a graduating class of fifty-seven. Every teacher, even ones that did not teach me, knew my name. I was lucky to discover what a teacher-student relationship looked like. Now I find myself as well as well as many others attending a university where one of our classes can be three times the size of our graduating class. With this many students, creating a relationship with a teacher becomes damn near impossible. This connection is vital to make it possible for a student to learn. Not having this relationship is what leads to students disinterest in the course. Zaid Noaman, a junior at Arizona State thinks “its deficiently hurting my learning. I don’t really have a connection with my teachers so if I fall behind or don’t really understand something I’d rather ask a student cause… I guess causes I don’t really feel. I don’t know its hard to want to talk to someone I haven’t bonded with.”

Paramount to my teaching philosophy is building strong relationships with students. By illustrating that I care for their needs and desires, I hope to become approachable and produce a sense of belonging. In my opinion, students possess an innate need to belong to social groups, and the development of positive relationships is imperative to students’ satisfaction of this need. According to Dreikurs, ‘students can often appear to be complicated and confusing to their teachers, most of them simply want their teachers to take the time to ask questions, tell stories, and be genuinely interested in who they are beyond the classroom’ (Daniels, 2011). It is essential that I build positive relationships with students, through a supportive,

When I interviewed with Brian and Jeff at the beginning of the summer I had very little idea what went on in the logistics world besides the fact that it is a rapidly growing field that needs more professionals now. I didn’t know anything that happened in the real world of logistics, only what I have read and learned in books at UMSL. There is a very big difference between reading about the processes, regulations, and technology and going in to work and experiencing how all those things are used in the real world. Aside from those things, I didn’t know that brokerage in freight was so prevalent.

Now as a teacher, he hopes to have connections with students that are meaningful and sincere. Strong teacher-student relationships are sometimes unique and valuable. These relationships often extend the cultural

First, the relationships in my future career will revolve mostly around my students. Teachers see their students five days per week in most cases, usually for six hours at a time. Teachers are supposed to be responsible adults young people can trust with their safety, but also to believe in them when others don’t and to always push them to be their personal best. Therefore, it’s important for a teacher to hard work to create healthy relationships with each individual student to create a positive learning environment. In addition to student relationships, it’s in the students’ best interest for a teacher to reach out and create bonds with parents and families so that parents can better support their children as learners and continue the wholesome school environment at home. Finally, teachers can hope to achieve professional relationships with other teachers and faculty at the school site. This can be beneficial, as it can open up collaboration and

Developing a positive relationship with a student first is the key to that student being receptive to anything else a teacher has to offer. The student is taught by the parents to be respectful to teachers, friends, and others. When the kids start school the teachers teach them

Bad teachers don’t understand the importance and the impact of having a good teacher-student relationship. “Positive teacher-student relationships include the presence of having closeness, warmth and positivity with the students in the classroom” (Gallagher 2013). By having a good teacher-student relationship, it positively impacts the student’s social and academic outcomes. Positive relationships with teachers help students with developing self-esteem, self-concept and enable students to feel safe in their learning environments. This positive relationship with a teacher is specifically effective in high-poverty urban schools. Students that live in poverty who have a strong teacher-student relationship have higher academic achievement and more positive social-motional adjustment than those who don’t have a positive relationship with their teacher. Studies have found that the teacher-student relationships are very important in transition years when students go from elementary to middle school and high school. They found that students that

As I reflect more on my childhood years and the complexity of my family as it goes back generations I have come to better understand myself. Consequently, there are a number of personal and professional implications from these reflections. The personal implications have been the most difficult to work through, and many have only come to the surface through working on keeping a healthy marriage with my wife Megan and in raising our daughter together. The first implication, is the need to live out something different than what was model to me growing up. This analysis has helped me realize that most of the relationships that I was a part of, or witnessed growing up, were filled with anxiety. This was often caused by not sharing the same core values, or conforming to expectations. However, I have been challenged in my own expectations for others and how I can be a non-anxious presence in my family relationships.