Building Supportive Relationships
Key Points.
- Building supportive relationships requires: caring, responsiveness and consistency.
- "Banking Time" is a practice whereby teachers make time for quality interactions with students, these quality interactions protect the relationship if conflict occurs.
- Empathy between student and teacher facilitates mutual understanding.
- While intelligent software can be responsive to the cognitive needs of students, teachers can be responsive to both cognitive and emotional needs of students.
Practical Recommendations.
Recommendations based on attachment theory:
- Be caring AND consistent. Caring without consistency can be as detrimental for a relationship as the lack of caring.
- Be responsive by reading emotions and responding to the emotions with questions and offers of support.
Recommendations based on the video:
- Give an encouraging feedback that supports learning: "2/20 means you got two right :)"
- Create a common goal for teacher and student: "I am the best, you are the best, we will show others that we are the best!"
- Apologize
Recommendations based on the concept of attention:
- "L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité" (Simone Weil).
- Practice paying attention by paraphrasing what students say.
- At the end of class, write notes about what students said, demonstrated, expressed in class.
- Mindfulness training improves ability to pay attention:
Slides.
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