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How Relationships Are The Core of Teaching
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Check out Peter Felten's description in the 3-minute video. Relationships here aren't solely defined at the student-instructor or one-on-one level. A relationship-rich environment embodies constellations of relationships and connections across everyone in the learning enterprise—even in a large-enrollment course.
Even (and especially) time-pressed instructors with large classes can foster meaningful relationships and interactions, resulting in powerful and long-lasting effects for students.
The four guiding principles of Relationship-Rich Education are:
- All students must experience genuine welcome and deep care.
- Relationships are a powerful means to inspire all students to learn.
- All students must develop webs of significant relationships.
- All students need meaningful relationships to help them—and to challenge them—to explore the big questions of their lives.
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