Essays on Teacher-Student Relationships

Anna Quindlen’s Write for Your Life begins with the movie ‘Freedom Writers’, in which teacher Erin Gruwell deals with the difficulties of teaching to a class of disconnected inner-city students by handing out “marbled composition books and the assignment to write their lives, ungraded, unjudged’….

The writer starts off by assuring the readers that he is only sharing his own perspective that may be wrong and not coincide with their thoughts. Firstly, he very neatly describes the trading relationship between a teacher and this society. A teacher, according to him,…

According to B.F. Skinner (1948) Reinforcement is responsible for response strengthening-increasing the rate of responding or making responses more likely to occur. A reinforcer is any stimulus or event following a response that leads to response strengthening. Reinforcers are situationally specific: They apply to individuals…

Today’s present generation or the generation x, every student have different behavior towards their teacher. The way they think and feel about their teachers differs from each other. Each one of them has behavioral problems that could affect their relationship between their mentors. Most students…