Dr. Craig L. Bouvier

When you have a teacher who has presence, students are impacted in ways that positively affect the class. But what exactly is teacher presence?

I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that rules without relationships lead to rebellion. Yet today, relationships with students seem to be feared instead of embraced. Over the years, quite by accident, I have discovered that this precept from days gone by is critical to classroom rules and to learning itself. Relationships are an essential part of learning, especially relationships between teachers and students.