How Quality Teacher Student Relationship Can Prevent High School Dropouts

The two most important way to stop high school dropouts is to do whatever it takes to improve the quality of the relationship between the teacher and student and to make sure that the teacher is effective.

• If it requires reorganizing the classroom or course so that the teacher can teach smaller classes, then lets do so. 
• If it requires retraining teachers so that they can individualize their teaching strategies to accommodate the students, then lets do so. 
• If it requires a change in the overall school atmosphere whereby standards are set high and excellence is rewarded, then lets do so. 
• And, finally, the course work must be both challenging, interesting and have real world significance to the student.

Providing the students an education of the highest quality must be the key mission of any and all schools. Teachers must accept this mission and be rewarded for their ability to do so. Bad teachers must be weeded out and asked to leave. And if they don't do so willingly, then they must be fired.

Any type of procedure that prolongs the presence of a bad teacher in front of the students and crippling them must be eliminated. Each students must be recognized  for her or her academic achievement. Athletic achievement, although important, must be secondary in importance.

Teachers must reach out and strive to establish a healthy relationship with the students' parents simply because this is in the best interest of the students. Parents(see Parent's Place)must be encouraged to establish, at the very least, a home atmosphere that is conducive to learning and to coordinate expectations with the school so that homework and school projects are promptly completed and enhance the learning experience.


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