teacher-student relationships

Presents advice for teachers on how to better engage their students and empower them to take charge of their learning, to build a working relationship with students based on mutual trust, appreciation, and respect. Discusses the idea of a learning environment and how to create it to be positive and interactive.

A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?.

A history teacher in a private boys' school helps his students understand the strange, surprising turns their lives take.

Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires craft, sensitivity, creativity, and intelligence. Whether the classroom consists of 3 students or 300, it's important to be as effective and successful a teacher as possible, both for the students and for professional and personal growth. This course is designed to help develop and enhance teaching style; provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and help viewers achieve new levels of success as teachers.

When teacher Eric Capadis is found dead outside a classroom window of an apparent suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over teaching Eric's middle school class. The students in the class are unnerving. Their fierce loyalty to each other and their perfect behavior along with a series of bizarre messages, has Hoffman wondering what's really going on with these kids and if perhaps Eric's death was not a suicide after all.

Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher helps her discover her own creative resources.

When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Jake Drake sets out to save his reputation when a run of good luck at school draws the unwanted praise of his teachers, giving the other kids the idea that he is teacher's pet.

Little Critter is not too happy when a bossy new student gets special treatment. But when the teacher's pet shows that she's a team player, Little Critter and his classmates discover that they've made a great new friend.

Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.