This document discusses the importance of positive relationships between teachers and students, parents, and other teachers. It provides tips for teachers to develop these relationships, such as warmly interacting with parents, communicating expectations and encouragement to students, and showing kindness, praise, and understanding towards other teachers. Building positive relationships through good communication helps people to trust and respect one another.

2. IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
 Whether relationships are between friends, family members, a
teacher or a student, building positive relationships are important.
It helps us to trust each other and communicate more effectively,
it also helps us to respect each other and our differences.

3. DEVELOPING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS
SOME WAYS IN WHICH TEACHERS CAN DEVELOP A
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS ARE:
• Most parents usually interact with teachers, so the encounter with
parents should be warm and friendly.
• Regular communication is also good. Providing information on
what’s going on in class; what students are learning, what they have
accomplished, the improvements that are needed and growth that
you're seeing.
• Declaration of your intention; telling them that you want to work
together with them and the support is appreciated.

4. DEVELOPING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS
SOME WAYS IN WHICH TEACHERS CAN DEVELOP A
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH STUDENTS ARE:
1. Communicating positive expectations has a massive impact on
students academic performance also on their behavioral performance
(Kerman, Kimball, & Martin, 1980).
2.Giving hints and clues to help students answer questions.
3. Motivating and encouraging students; telling them they have the
ability to do it. (Thompson 1988)
4. Correcting students in a constructive way.

5. DEVELOPING POSTIVES RELATIONS BETWEEN TEACHER
AND TEACHER
Effective teacher to teacher communication is vitally essential to anyone's success in
becoming a teacher. Some ways in which teachers can develop positive relations with
other teachers are:
• Encourage and show kindness and humility. Praise exemplary work, regardless of
the person that did it. Sometimes the most hardened of fellow workers can be
turned into “softies” once they realize that you are not afraid to compliment them or
give them encouraging words, despite of how they perceive you ordinarily.
• Be happy. Making a choice to be happy on a day to day basis will make people
around you more comfortable on a day to day basis. (Zehm and Kottler 1993)
• Be open-minded. Do not get into arguments. Discuss things with people rather than
argue. Being combative or disagreeable is likely to put others off.
• Understanding that some peoples feelings hurt easier than others. Humor can bring
people together, but it can also tear people apart. Before making a joke with
someone know how they would take it. Everyone is different in this aspect.

6. REFERENCES
• www.abouteducation.com
• Battistich, Schaps, & Wilson, 2004; Birch & Ladd, 1997; Hamre & Pianta, 2001
• Daniels & Perry, 2003; Perry & Weinstein, 1998
• Murray, Christopher. “Supportive teacher-student relationships: Promoting the
Social and Emotional Health of Early Adolescents with High Incidence
Disabilities.”
• Pianta, Robert C., Enhancing Relationships Between Children and Teachers.
Washington, D.C.American Psychological Assn., 1999.