Podcast: Building Relationships with Your Students

Today’s Middle Level Educator a podcast from National Middle School Association (NMSA). This is a podcast with Howard Orman, principal, who discusses way of motivating and building positive relationship with your students. Orman and Jack Brickmeyer talks about how middle school students from ten years ago are not that much different than students of today; only a few things have change and that is manners and the students are more challenged, students of today think they are entitled to things. This podcast goes with “This We Believe” culture and community within and outside the classroom. How important it is to meet students needs and relating to students on a more personal level, but within the code of ethics. The podcast is free, all you need to do is open an iTunes account and select podcast and type in “Building positive relationships with your students”.