Certain positions demand respect simply because of the nature of the position.

A teacher, however, cannot

expect to be respected simply because he or she is the teacher. List down several points for a teacher to
earn respect from his or her students.

Mutual respect between any human beings is important. There might be differing cultural
expectations when it comes to respecting teachers, but still its important for teachers to think about
whether and why they deserve respect automatically. You cant teach your students to respect you. You
may try. Many teachers do. They harp on it, do read aloud about it, and even role-play it. But in the end,
students cant be persuaded or talked into respecting teachers. In this day and age, respect must be earned.
The truth is, times have changed. Long gone are the days when a teacher's presence alone demanded
respect from students as well as their parents. Today, in a society where good morals are on the decline
and self-centeredness is on the incline, we can't afford to educate students the way our teachers did back
in the day. We have to get respect the hard way, we have to earn it.
One of the way to earn respect from your students is to know your students and the lives they
live. This is especially important if your students are from a different cultural or socio-economic
background than you. Numerous studies have shown that cultural misunderstanding between teachers and
students can have a hugely negative impact on students educational experience. But research has also
shown that teachers who visit students homes and spend time in their communities develop a deep
awareness of students challenges and needs and are better able to help them. If your time is limited, then
ask students to complete an interest inventory, which can be as simple as having students write down
their five favorite things to do. Their responses will give you ideas for making the curriculum more
relevant to their livesa sure method for letting students know you care about them. A good teacher will
always try and give all they have both intellectually and personally. Caring for our students has nothing to
do with the job or the salary that we get. It is more about creating a culture of confidence and preparing
for good citizenship for the future generations. Unfortunately a lot of teachers of modern world should not
be in this profession to start with. They do not have the feeling of being a teacher.
The teacher student relationship is very important for children. Children spend approximately 5 to
7 hours a day with a teacher for almost 10 months. We ask ourselves what is considered a good teacher?
All of us have gone through schooling, and if fortunate had a favorite teacher. A positive relationship
between the student and the teacher is difficult to establish, but can be found for both individuals at either
end. The qualities for a positive relationship can vary to set a learning experience approachable and
inviting the students to learn. A teacher and student who have the qualities of good communications,

respect in a classroom, and show interest in teaching from the point of view of the teacher and learning
from a student will establish a positive relationship in the classroom. I will be focusing on the relationship
between the student and teacher, involving a setting in the primary grades, which I have found second
grade to be extremely important for the student to gain a positive attitude for their future education.

Recognizing our own preferences and biases is the first step to being fair to your students. We
need to look closely at our feelings toward individual children. Children have a keen sense of fairness,
and generally lose respect for us if we have "favorites" or if we dislike individual children. We need to
appear to like each child equally, and even just appearing to do so is often not enough as many children
can sense how we really feel. We may need to look inside ourselves quite deeply if we really want to be
fair to each child. Children who lose confidence often lose respect for us and start behaving badly or
become quiet. Confidence is relative. It depends very much on who the other children in the class are and
how successful they appear to be. A child may feel very confident in one class and less confident in
another because he or she will be comparing himself or herself with her peers. In order to overcome this
problem and ensure that all children in our classes are successful, we must be careful not to let the more
confident children dominate a class. If this is happening, we may need to break up the class into groups
more. We also need to ensure that one team does not win too many games. Most important of all, we need
to find ways to give each child a sense of accomplishment with tasks that are appropriate for his or her
level. We should maintain a calm atmosphere in which we do not become nervous or irritable and the
children do not become antagonistic. Any irritability on our part will undermine their respect for us, and
can easily lead to them underperforming, which can make us even more irritated.
Who you are to them must speak louder than the actual words you use. In other words, the
presence of your character should speak before you even utter your first word. How you walk, look,
stand, dress, act, speak, respond, and even smell when you enter your school always should produce the
response, "I want that." Or, at the very least, it should say, "She's different." One of the best ways to earn
a student's respect in the classroom is by being the kind of person your students want to become. Put
another way, if your students don't want to become you, then you don't need to be there. We're talking
about integrity. Whenever we promote success to students without first modeling it, we're seen as
hypocrites in their eyes, even if they don't admit it. In addition, we lose credibility in the classroom. We
need to walk into a class feeling we know what we are doing, and if we do not have this feeling of
competence we need to reflect on why, and maybe get more training. It is natural for new teachers to lack
a feeling of competence, so a certain amount of bluff may be necessary! If the children notice we are not
feeling competent, they may lose respect and behave badly. It is best to prepare more activities than we

expect to need during a lesson. Pausing to wonder what to do next, unless this is a planned pause to get
the children more involved in choosing activities, can make them restless and lose some respect for us.
We should try to keep one step ahead, switching activities before the children's emotional involvement in
the lesson weakens, and give them the feeling that we know where we are going. The beginning of a
lesson is very important. Until we know a class well, we should start either with a safe classroom ritual
that involves all the children (particularly with a large class) or with an attractive and nonthreatening
activity that settles them down and gets everyone focused on the lesson. This will help all the children in
the class feel comfortable and secure with us.
However, it is also important to be honest about our feelings. If we are hurt by something one of
the children has done, we can show that we are hurt. We can also be honest about how we feel about bad
behavior. Wherever possible, we should do this in a way that gets the children's sympathy and
understanding. This may not work with an extremely badly behaved child, but at least we will probably
have the support of most of the other children in the class. If we lose our temper, blame the whole class,
or take measures that are too drastic, we are likely to lose their respect. If we respect and care about each
of the children and treat each of them as special, valuable individuals, they are much more likely to have a
positive attitude in our lessons and respect and care about us. We should know their names, know what
they are interested in, know about their families and much more. We should know just as much about the
badly behaved children as the well behaved children, and just as much about the quiet children as the
noisy ones. If we can find it in us to respect and love each of the children, there is a very good chance
they will respect and love us in return.
In a nutshell, gaining respect from students are not as hard as you think it is. Mutual respect is
crucial to build a good teacher-student rapport. These simple strategies if followed will have a great
impact on your classroom. Youll be surprised at just how quickly you can turn around the tone of a year,
and create a climate of respect and tolerance in your classroom.