My Favorite Things!
One of my favorite things to do as a teacher is to get to know my students. I worried about whether this would be possible when I have 200+ students per semester, but then I remind myself that out of the 80 or 90 different junior high and high school teachers my two children have had the past six years, there was only ONE teacher that one child could not come up with something nice to say. To be honest, I've met her, and I couldn't come up with anything nice either. Because I love this part of teaching so much, I copied a ton of links with hints and tips, but as I was putting them all down, I realized that yes, there will be students I have difficulty connecting with but for the most part it's just second nature to me. I have also realized that by the time October comes around, the students who are the hardest, most difficult, are my favorite students because we work so much harder together to succeed. Now, that was preschool and kindergarten and this is junior high and high school and things will be different but I'm hoping this will stay the same.
I also included some sources about poverty. I grew up pretty poor. I was one of three kids and a lot of days when we were younger my siblings and I would share a can of Campbell's soup made with water and my mom would eat air popped popcorn. My dad eventually got a master's degree, my mom went back to school and got a degree, and by high school they were doing incredibly well financially but still lived a very frugal life. I don't want to say my husband and I are rich because as far as our neighborhood we live in a shack, but we do just fine. Several of our neighbors are trust fund kids and I notice a lot of different privileges they don't realize they have.
Ideas for Building Rapport
*Notice something the student did.
*Send a postcard to a few students each week telling them why you like having them in class.
*Go to games/plays/concerts.
EdTPA Respect and Rapport
Students Interests and Assets Survey : Culturally Responsive Teaching
EdTPA:
"Establishing respect and rapport among and with students is critical for developing a mutually supportive and safe learning environment.
"Respect is the positive feeling of esteem or deference toward a person and the specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem.
"Rapport is a close and harmonious relationship in which members of a group understand each other’s ideas, respectively collaborate and communicate, and consider one another’s feelings.
"Both respect and rapport are demonstrated by how you treat students and how they treat each other."
A couple of videos with samples of building rapport
Ted Talk: Every Kid Needs a Champion
Other resources:
Short article The Myth of the Culture of Poverty
Short article: Getting to Know Your Students
Short article: Learning About Your Students' Backgrounds
Short article: Respecting Students is Essential
Short article: Strategies for Building Rapport with Students
Ted Talk: Teens experience ageism too
Podcast: America's Poverty Myth 5 parts
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