Did you ever wonder how you could get to know your students and establish a good classroom rapport?  Well, wonder no more and read the following items:

1) Visit parents and students over the summer prior to the upcoming school year.

2) Have students fill out activity, hobby and attitude inventories.

3) Give parents your contact information.

4) Be availabe for your students before and after school.

5) Welcome the parents into the classroom.

6) Go on outside fieldtrips with your students.

7) Get involved in afterschool activities that your students may be involved in.

8) Talk to your students about their "outside of school" lives...possibly over lunch.

9) Encourage your students to go above and beyond what they think they can do.

10) Let your students know that their hard work pays off.

11) Publish your students writing and/or artwork.

12) Encourage your students to compete in competitions and debates.

13) Set down classroom rules and talk about the consequences of breaking the classroom rules...do this in September!

14) Try to work out behavioral problems of a student with the student and their parents before going to the principle.

15) Don't yell at an individual student in front of his or her peers.