teacher-student relations

Pen colour affects teacher-student relations

Red pens are making students feel blue, according to a US study that recommends teachers refrain from using the colour when marking. In a paper published in The Social Science Journal, sociology professor Richard Dukes and associate professor Heather Albanesi, at the University of Colorado, show the use of a red pen in marking has [...]

Great Teacher/Student Relationships

Of course we all know that relationships are central to teaching, and of course we all know that good relationships are pre-cursor to good teaching. But I wonder if we can clarify what a good Teacher/Student relationship looks like? In my experience good relationships in the classroom don’t depend on likeability as such. By that [...]

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