Students’ Relationships with Teachers

There is growing consensus that the nature and quality of children’s relationships with their teachers play a critical and central role in motivating and engaging students to learn, and teaching them what they need to know to become knowledgeable and productive citizens (Becker & Luthar, 2002; Pianta, Hamre, & Stuhlman, 2003; Stipek, 2004). Effective teachers are typically described as those who create relationships with students that are...