In the Guidelines for Online and Digital Teaching and Learning developed during the EDGE project, there is a chapter which deals with the positive student-teacher relationship in a digital learning environment. The key for developing such kind of a relationship lies in communication. Positive and supportive relationship improves students' feeling of safety and competence.

Here is some advice given in the Guidelines:

1. Initiate supportive, appreciative and respectful communication

2. Ask for feelings and needs of your students

3. Make sure the communication is clear

4. Give detailed feedback face-to-face per video by considering the emotional component

5. Communicate trust in your students' abilities

6. Open the lessons and tasks for individual and creative processing and solutions

7. Appreciate creative, individual task-solving ¹Links to an external site.

We invite you to contribute to reflect on anything that you have learned or picked up during your career that can improve positive teacher-student relationship based on your own teaching experience.

If you want to find more about positive student-teacher relationship, we invite to you explore optional content of this module on this theme here.