Ask students questions that require them to compare and contrast ideas, illustrate ideas, or link new ideas to old ones. Ideas presented in this article were taken from a number of sources. But a teacher's relationship with learners is not icing. It is an essential component of the teaching and learning process. Moreover, the teacher's success in facilitating learning is directly related to the quality of that relationship.
Relationships are as essential to teaching as the flour is to the cake.
We provide a number of guidelines under each category for strengthening alliances in teaching and learning. The key to all these features, however, is a recognition of the reciprocal nature of the teaching-learning process. But the nature of the academy and students' past interactions with faculty may require the teacher to take the first step toward the mutuality and possibility to continue to lead the way until students are sufficiently confident to become full partners in the process. Toward the best in the academy.