How can Teachers Build a Positive Relationship with Children

National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage-2022 suggestion on Building a Positive Relationship with Children

It is our job as Teachers to ensure that children settle and enjoy their time at school. A safe, positive relationship between Teacher and child is enriching both for emotional and cognitive development.
Some important ways to build such a positive relationship are:

Getting to know each child individually

Listening to children

Observing children

Encouraging children’s intuitional responses

Recognizing and responding to the emotions and moods of children

Visiting their homes regularly

a. Getting to know each child individually – their homes, their families, their interests, things they do outside school, their pets, their favourite people – this helps to understand each child and plan learning experiences for each of them.
b. Listening to children – their stories, their narrations of what happens at home, their opinions and views on everything that interests them – this conveys care and respect, builds trust, helps children think and communicate, and gain confidence.
c. Observing children – consciously observing while continuously interacting with children this helps to discover how each child thinks, reasons and responds to different situations, which is critical to planning for teaching and learning.
d. Encouraging children’s intuitional responses – words, actions, solving a small problem, analysing what happened – this helps to meaningfully build on children’s naturally creative and resourceful selves.

e. Recognizing and responding to the emotions and moods of children – through conversation, music, storytelling, art, playing together – this helps children to settle better, learn better, learn to slowly regulate their own emotions, and begin to understand and respond to the emotions of others.

f. Visiting their homes regularly – this is important to understand children and their home environment and build trust and a positive bond.

National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage-2022

https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/NCF_for_Foundational_Stage_20_October_2022.pdf