What Are The Developmental Differences Associated With Teacher-Child Relationships?

Teacher-student relationships are as important to adolescents as they are to younger students. Feeling a connection and sense of relatedness to a teacher represents an essential need of all children and teens ( Gregory & Ripski,2008). How ever, it is worth nothing that the nature of positive teacher-student relationships changes depending on the age of child involved. In the other words, the precise behaviors that might be perceived by a kindergarten child as nurturing and caring (e.g ; a doting smile, a one-armed hug) might be perceived by a kindergarten child as nurturing and caring