Documents – How to Make a Relationship Overview
In this step you will find all the relevant documents needed to create your relationship overview. All the documents can be downloaded and printed.
You will find:
- an individual Relationship Overview
- Use this overview to map out your individual relationship to each of your students.
- the team’s Relationship Overview
- Sit down with your team of teachers all working with the same group of students and determine which students that do not have a strong relationship with a teacher.
- the team’s plan of action
- When you have figured out which students need more attention map out how you and your team will ensure that your plan succeeds.
When filling out your Individual Relationship Overview consider asking yourself some of these questions:
- Do you know the students’ names or interests?
- Do you have enough 1:1 time with students or time outside the classroom?
- Do some of the students find the lesson content dull?
- Do you experience poor starts and lack of engagement from the students?
- Are you experiencing challenging behaviour from some of the students?
Definitions
The Challenging Relationship
- The students with whom you have a bad or conflictual relationship.
- You are regularly in contact with the student and often on the basis of a conflict or a similar issue.
The Weak Relationship
- The students with whom you have a bad or conflictual relationship.
- You rarely have a one-on-one contact with the student
The Decent Relationship
- The students with whom you have a good and non-conflictual relationship.
- You rarely have one-on-one contact with the student
The Strong Relationship
- The students with whom you have a good and non-conflictual relationship.
- Do regularly have contact with the student and often on the basis of something positive or constructive.
The Empty Relationship
- The students with whom you cannot fully describe your relationship maybe because they do not draw attention to themselves or seek adult contact.
- You have a hard time determining whether the relationship is good or bad.
Documents
1. Individual Relationship Overview
Take your point of departure in the above definitions. Place each of your students in the category which you think best characterise your individual relationship with the student.
2. The Team’s Relationship Overview
Now you should gather your assessments in the team in an overview by putting your initials next to each student’s name and the relationship that you believe you have with each student.
The patterns in the team’s relationships to each student will equip you to discuss where your focal points in the team’s relationship work should be in the coming period of time.
3. The Team’s Plan of Action
Lastly, think about what you would like to do in the coming period of time in order to strengthen your relationships to the students who you chose to focus on.
You have now completed the online course Relationship Overview
We hope that you will use your learnings from this course in your coming interactions with your students.
If the course has sparked your interest in the Scandinavian schools feel free to look around at our website for more information and inspiration as to how we work with education in the Scandinavian countries.
We, here at Nordic Schools, would like to say thank you for participating this course and we wish you all the luck in your future work as a teacher, teaching assistant, school leader, educator and more.
Best regards
Kasper Myding & Casper Rongsted
Nordic Schools