Interactions with Students

When you ask a teacher what the best part of teaching
is, the response almost always describes some
aspect of the teacher-student relationship. Whether it’s
the one-on-one conversations in office hours or the joy
of seeing a classroom discussion come alive, positive
interactions with students remind us why we became
teachers and scholars. As described in previous sections,
you can maximize positive interactions with your students
though your use of electronic communication,
office hours, and classroom teaching strategies. In this
section, we address teacher-student interactions, from
valuing the diversity in our student population to supporting
academically vulnerable students to handling
conflict in the classroom.