Rheebot No More: It All Comes Down to Building Relationships

It All Comes Down to Building Relationships

I went to training this week about transformative learning in the classroom, which, from what I could gain over the form of the day, is an attack to education that gets students to trust the instructor and eventually leads to critical thinking.Please don`t let me explain how getting to live a scholar and concern about a student leads to critical thinking.

he trainer never quite connected those dots for me, but it got me thinking about how important relationship building is with my students.For some reason, relationships were reinforced with food with my current and old students.Chips, cookies, candy, gum; you make it and I`ve bought it in for my students at one meter or another.It started out as a reward thing, but so I only gave it to the students because they needed it for one cause or another.Sometimes, kids would fall to me because they hadn`t eaten breakfast and a bag of chips would have them over until lunch.Those empty calories helped them in form and kept them from freaking out on a mathematics or history teacher.Other times, students would do to my way looking for candy so they could see me and assure me about something that happened last night.I suppose this was one of the ways I learned each student`s name in the building.I made it a stop to get to bed everyone`s name because it`s important for a kid to know that somebody made an attempt to get to love them.These were roughly of the small things I did to form relationships.Somehow, this relationship building block is way more important than teaching some days.There were times when I had to stop class and basically have a group session because a pupil was so emotionally frustrated by what was passing on in his or her life.I don`t recognize that this is the better access to teaching, but it`s one that worked with some of the most volatile students that I had.I proceed to nurture relationships with my students.I went to the hospital today to see a female student who went into premature labor.I didn`t recognize it until I got there that she was delivering the baby.So, I met her cousin and dropped off some magazines and snacks for her.I`m worried about her and the infant because the baby`s about two months early.Now she knows I truly like and when she gets back to educate our relationship will still be solid.There`s nothing quite as mightily as a call from a teacher to a student outside of school.I`ve found that I`m able to learn better when I love my students, and not make excuses for them, but serve them surmount the barriers they give to education.I think I just try to form a difference, some way, somehow.