Interpersonal Relationship In Teaching

Task A
(P 1.1)
Teaching is known as one of the noble professions as it involves reading, understanding, attracting and cultivating minds of especially young that would make the good citizens of a country. Thus teachers play a vital role in the society in moulding students to survive in the society as good people. This is why soft skills have to be practiced by every teacher teaching students as these skills are personality driven skills needed by a teacher to enhance the ability to interact effectively with learners, other teachers and other professionals. To be successful in their profession, teachers need to practice and follow ethics with students, other teachers and other professionals in the school or college environment. Ethics

A teacher’s first and foremost interpersonal relationship lies with the students. The behaviour of students with the teacher will have a greater effect on the teaching profession. Teacher is the important relation to students in school and therefore the sole responsibility of the students, thus anything happening to the students will affect the teacher’s profession. A teacher can get a lot of stress from the students which will affect the profession. Too much stress can lead a teacher to become angry and inefficient because he or she will respond emotionally as it’s depicted by the ‘Transactional Model of Stress and Coping’ by Lazarus (1991) and Lazarus and Folkman (1987). A teacher has to maintain a balanced relationship with the students, colleagues, principal and other senior and junior staff because to have a positive outcome on his or her

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