Reflect on a favorite teacher from your past.

What did they do that makes them “special”?

 (Noun) A positive relationship between people
that is built on mutual respect, trust, or
emotional affinity.
 Everyone has a different “style” and you must
use it to build genuine rapport
 formal authority
 demonstrator
 facilitator
 delegator
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats
 Strengths: your characteristics that give you
an advantage in building rapport
 Weaknesses: your characteristics that give
you a disadvantage in building rapport
 Opportunities: chances to improve rapport
 Threats: external elements/issues that
could cause trouble/prevent you from
building rapport
 STRENGTHS: WEAKNESSES:
Learner Centered Overly Protective
Focused on Success Failures are my failure
Flexibility 3rd/4th chances

OPPORTUNITIES: THREATS:
In class interactions Cultural Barriers
Out of class interactions Being an “outsider”
Availability for individual Stus Differing practices of peers
 They want teachers who:
◦ are real people
◦ who talk at their level
◦ let them work and learn with other students.
◦ give clear, complete explanations and provide
concrete examples
 They want to be challenged, not decimated.
 Opportunities to have their questions

answered.
Work with a partner and think of at least
TWO things that can prevent teachers and
students from building a good rapport?
 Too little involvement of students in class
activities or excessive “teacher talk”
 Taking away or damaging a students’

individuality and identity

 Unclear expectations and inconsistent

procedures
 Student Involvement
◦ Choose activities that actively involve the students
in the lesson and instruction
◦ Develop some system to make sure you are
eliciting/making contact with every individual
◦ Limit the amount of “Teacher Talk”
 Words, Tone, Attitude
◦ Choose your words carefully: avoid sarcasm,
derogatory comments, “empty words”, etc.
◦ Make sure conversations set a positive tone.
◦ Your overall attitude toward your students really
matters (They are very perceptive).
 Clear Expectations
◦ Have clear expectation for students to know what it
takes to be successful in your class
 Consistency
◦ “Say what you mean and mean what you say”
◦ Same rules apply to all students, all the time
 Meet and Greet
 Establish Expectations and Rules

◦ 3 step process
 KFU and PYP policies
 YOUR Expectations of them
 Class Rules