I’ve concluded there is just one true key to successfully reaching students through effective teaching methods.
It doesn’t matter how many effective teaching skills and useful behavior strategies you have in your arsenal. Without the number one secret to effectively reach students, your efforts will eventually come unstuck.
Sadly neglected by many punishment-driven, hard-nosed teachers in the world of education, the secret ingredient is the student-teacher relationship.
Students spend approximately 5 to 7 hours each day with a teacher for ten months a year. A positive relationship between the student and the teacher can be difficult to establish for some teachers. Please don’t give up it can be achieved with a concentrated effort.
A positive relationship’s qualities can vary to set a learning experience approachable and inviting for the students to learn.
A teacher and student who have good communication skills, respect in the classroom, and show interest in teaching from the teacher’s point and learning from the students’ point will establish positive relationships.
Stopping behavior problems from occurring is easier when you know what causes them – being proactive will help. Click To TweetPrepare yourself to take immediate control over a classroom when it becomes disruptive. It is critical to your success in behavior management and essential to your ability to effectively reach your students and improve your skill in handling young people.
When you get to know a student, you become aware of their triggers, which upset them and cause all sorts of problems in class. And when you’re dealing with students that flare up for no apparent reason, this is valuable knowledge. After all, stopping behavior problems from occurring is easier when you know what causes them – being proactive will help.
You may be turned off at the thought of reaching out and getting to know some of the disrespectful characters you have to teach. These students may include those that ignore your instructions, swear and spit, laugh in your face or threaten you. Address this behavior head-on using different behavior management techniques or speaking to other teachers you trust to gain ideas on what might work.
Getting to know students as individuals will help you learn their unique goals, needs, and interests. By discovering what makes each of your students unique, you will find it’s easier to develop lesson plans and assignments that are tailor-made for your group.
Incorporating topics and activities of interest will make it easier to capture students’ attention and actively engage them in the learning process.
If you show a genuine interest in your students, they will pick up on it and know you truly care about them and their education. When you reach out and get to know any student in school, you show them they’re valued as individuals, not just students in your classroom.
Once they learn this, their ability to take an active role in other positive relationships is improved; they fit in better and are less likely to get into serious trouble.
Once you get to know them, anything is possible; doors are opened to a whole new world of communication, cooperation, fun, and mutual respect. Spending some one-on-one time getting to know the class as individuals allow you to form a special connection with each of your students. This student-teacher bond will make it easier to detect and help them overcome their weaknesses.
The situation with problem students will improve quickly and dramatically once you make an effort to get to know them as individuals and make the student-teacher relationship an extremely effective behavior management tool and a teaching technique.
