Book Club Chapter 5-6

At last, we have come to an ending of the book, "Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago." The last two chapters went into more details of the relationship between teachers and students, as well as discussing the results from each study. Do you believe it's important for teachers and students to have relation trust? "Relation trust refers to the interpersonal social exchanges that take place in a group setting. Research has found it to have a particularly strong impact on student achievement in school communities (eleducation.org). I can relate to having a relational trust with a teacher. In high school, I used to struggle with algebra honors. I knew the teacher offered his help after school to practice and go over the material that we learned each day in class. Yet, I never took it upon myself to stay because I was shy, felt like I could not persevere in this subject, and did not like how he taught. I felt this way until one day, his approach for me to stay after class was different, encouraging, and welcoming all at the same time. I gave in and excelled in the class. Relation trust gives students the opportunity to ask and learn more from their teachers, especially when unable to understand the material.

What I Think When Students Should Leave Their Trust In Teachers Care

Although students and teachers can benefit from relation trust it can also go wrong. What I mean by this is boundaries can be crossed on both ends. It can become an incident where the student or teacher are pursuing each other within more of what the relationship is supposed to be. Below is a short clip of a teacher who was arrested for having sexual contact with a student.

There are numerous amount of cases like this, and many schools have similar incidents take place for, months to years knowingly and unknowingly. It goes from treating students as if they're your own to inappropriate behavior. I believe relation trust is important but to an extent. There should be rules clearly stated and no other impression made between the student and teacher. All in all, this book gives the pros and cons of how students attendance and academics can improve.