I interact meaningfully with every student
Getting to know your students and demonstrating interest in them is the key to building and maintaining relationships. Students need to feel like a valued and necessary addition to the classroom. Teachers can demonstrate this through every day actions and comments.
Name tag Goals
Keeping individualized goals updated shows students that you are racking their individual progress along with them. Using velcrow on nametags doubles as a classroom management technique (moving/assigning seats quickly) but also as a way to interact with students. The name tag can have a recent goal you and the student has discussed or simply a note of encouragement for the day.
Lunch with the Teacher
One way I show interest is by having lunch with students. During our lunch together, I ask about their favorites, share "secrets" about me, and we develop and practice our own "secret handshake." On the first day of school I always stress how happy I am to be their teacher and I continuously highlight my appreciation of their differences as learners and individuals. I share that learning 20+ different handshakes will be challenging, but they are each important to me so It will be worth it!
Specific Feedback
Another way to interact meaningfully with each student is to give feedback that is specific to their growth and weaknesses! I love to engage one-on-one with students using a progress monitoring tool like a visual tracker. Students know that the teacher is aware of their strengths and weaknesses and will work to help them reach their individualized goals!
Home visits
Home visits are strongly encouraged in our school district. I have found that home visits always strengthen relationships since students get to interact with you on a personal level at their home. Home visits foster a new level of trust among teachers and families. You can learn more about the student's culture, family, and home life. I enjoy this time most because teachers get to emerge themselves into each students reality, which can be used to make connections to both learning and motivation!
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Name tag Goals
Keeping individualized goals updated shows students that you are racking their individual progress along with them. Using velcrow on nametags doubles as a classroom management technique (moving/assigning seats quickly) but also as a way to interact with students. The name tag can have a recent goal you and the student has discussed or simply a note of encouragement for the day.
Lunch with the Teacher
One way I show interest is by having lunch with students. During our lunch together, I ask about their favorites, share "secrets" about me, and we develop and practice our own "secret handshake." On the first day of school I always stress how happy I am to be their teacher and I continuously highlight my appreciation of their differences as learners and individuals. I share that learning 20+ different handshakes will be challenging, but they are each important to me so It will be worth it!
Specific Feedback
Another way to interact meaningfully with each student is to give feedback that is specific to their growth and weaknesses! I love to engage one-on-one with students using a progress monitoring tool like a visual tracker. Students know that the teacher is aware of their strengths and weaknesses and will work to help them reach their individualized goals!
Home visits
Home visits are strongly encouraged in our school district. I have found that home visits always strengthen relationships since students get to interact with you on a personal level at their home. Home visits foster a new level of trust among teachers and families. You can learn more about the student's culture, family, and home life. I enjoy this time most because teachers get to emerge themselves into each students reality, which can be used to make connections to both learning and motivation!
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