Brief Synopsis of Professional Reading

Teacher-Student Interactions: The Key to Quality Classrooms

I. Introduction

Teaching is the most rewarding aspect as a profession and forms of the

identity as a student of College of Education. Teaching energizes me and strives to
love teaching and discipline my students.
The teacher’s primary role is to guide, rather than the source of learning, the
students in finding answer to themselves, and view mistakes as misconceptions, not
the learners weakness. The teacher must also provide student access to hands-on
activities, allow them enough space and time to reinforce the lesson for the pupils to
discover on their own and where construction of knowledge to happen.
Every teacher has his or her way communicating or interacting with their
student. Their interaction provides way in building a relation as teacher and learner
that makes a room for learning. However, learning doesn’t take place with just plain
interaction as teachers who provide instructions and learners who just absorb what
you teach. It takes place within an interaction that provides a healthy environment
that enables students to felt that they are accepted as person who need care,
understanding, and supports not just in need to learn academic matters. This kind of
interaction was emphasized by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
as developed the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and
Learning. Moreover, Student-teacher relationship is when students perceive that
teachers and other adults in their school care about them, as learners, and as
individuals. Teachers often talk about how hard it is to connect with and get to their
students. They say students view them as out of bounds; hence according to
students, teachers cannot understand them. This is a wrong and dangerous
assumption on the student's side, and teachers should do their best to debunk this
myth and form connections with their students.

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II. Summary/Discussion

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) provides a view on the

ways how teachers interact to their students inside the school particularly in the
class. This interaction doesn’t only include instructional purposes but also
encompassing students’ growth as a person in terms of emotions, behavior, skills,
and more. This enables students to have an environment that caters to developed
them as a whole with the teachers as the one who accompany them in their growth.
Moreover, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) enumerates the ways
that would help teacher to improve their personality towards their students. The
manner of the teacher in addressing the different needs of their students was also
been given emphasis. Emotional support, Classroom organization, and Instructional
support are three broad categories that it enumerates under that various aspects
were enumerated. This thing if done or used would provide a better development
and achievement to students. Students would learn better if they have a good
rapport to their teacher. It was for the reason that as the students felt that they were
accepted, supported, understand, and cared by their teachers, they would be
comfortable and eager to pursue better for their selves.

III. Reactions/ Reflection

The teacher and the students are the main actors in the classroom. Their
interactions provide an environment that enables learning to takes place. Students
would achieved and develop better if they have teachers that shows concern and
provides a good communication between them.

As a future teacher, we must know how to interact with their students

because this could affect their work inside the classroom. After reading this article,
it made me realize that it is important to know and understand how to develop a
good and positive relationship between teacher and student.

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 Furthermore, we are here to help our students to grow and develop as
individual. Learning that we taught to them should contribute to their development
as a whole not just intellectually. The insights that we share on them should also
have an impact to their personality. We should not force them to respond the way
we like them to do but instead to response the way they want based on the thing
that we show them. On the other hand, it may not be applicable all the time because
if we always rely on how they want to respond it may be abusive and deviant so
sometimes we need to enforce what we want.

Article Reference:

Muntner, M. (2008). Teacher-Student Interactions: The Key To Quality

Classrooms. The University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and
Learning (CASTL). Retrived at http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teacher-
student-interactions-key-quality-classrooms on April 12, 2019

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