AVReading Newsletter November-- Micro-Affections
Our emphasis for the Cultural Proficiency workshop this month was on “Building Relationships.” We discussed how important it is, and how the actual nature of our relationships with students have changed over the course of time. As stated in a recent Educational Leadership article that Eugene Schegolkov found, “The absolute, unquestionable, and essentially assumed authority that teachers once possessed is diminishing and being replaced by an authority that has to be earned . Building a healthy rapport and positive relationship with students requires the careful cultivation of mutual respect, honesty, and trust” (“Relationships and Rapport: ‘You Don’t Know Me Like That,’” Educational Leadership, Fall 2018). Building relationships across lines of race, class, and culture becomes even more complex, as we are constant...