Relationship

//I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized." ~Haim Ginott//


 * Relationships...**ensuring each student feels connected, each student succeeds; with a caring student-focused environment and supports for struggling students

__**Building Relationships in the Classroom**__ (Schlechty, Working on the Work, p.20-21) Schlechty Center

Students and parents feel that the school as well as each classroom is a physically and psychologically safe place: success is expected and failure isunderstood as a necessary part of learning, there is mutual respect between and among faculty and students, and the fear of harm or harassment from fellow students and demeaning comments from teachers is negligible.
 * Safe Environment**

Persons who are significant in the lives of the student, including parents, siblilngs, peers, public audiences, and younger students, are positioned to observe, participate in, and benefit from student performances, as well as the products of those performances. and to affirm the significance and importance of the activity to be undertaken.
 * Affirmation**

Students are provided opoortubities to work with others (peers, parents, other adults, teachers, students from other schools or classrooms) on products, group performances, and exhibitions that they and others judge to be of significance.
 * Affiliation**

Healthy **relationships** form between learners when the environment is orchestrated in such a way that the basic psychological needs of each learner are met.
 * __Something to Think About:__**

Because humans are naturally social beings, the development of positive **relationships** between teachers and students is essential to learning.