Currently Recruiting Participants at all School Levels for Phase III!

Phase III is currently underway

Phase I focus groups were completed in November 2022

Phase II was completed in March 2023

 

Are you a current K-12 teacher, or have you retired or left the profession during the last 5 years?

Live in the United States?

If so, we need to hear from you!

 

Teaching is a difficult yet rewarding profession…

So many go into teaching because we love learning and want to share that passion with the next generation. The relationships teachers have with their students significantly impact student success. Those relationships also impact teachers’ occupational well-being. Research has found that positive relationships with students are the strongest predictor of joy for teachers and, when negative or combative, the strongest predictor of anxiety. What do teachers need to have more positive relationships with their students?

How do you develop great relationships with your students?

The stressors and realities of being a teacher impact teacher well-being. Research shows the importance of building and maintaining positive teacher-student relationships to student outcomes and teacher occupational well-being. What is not known is how effective teachers are at building positive relationships with students and how the educational system and school environment prevent teachers from building these relationships.

This research study is the first to focus on learning about factors from the teacher’s perspective that help or keep teachers from having positive, meaningful interpersonal relationships with students.

Teachers, we need your perspective!

We are a school social work research team interested in promoting the well-being of teachers.

This research study seeks to understand how teachers feel about their abilities to build and maintain positive relationships with their students and the factors at the school, community, and education system levels that help or hinder teachers’ capacity and motivation to build and maintain these relationships. This understanding will provide the basis to build a measure of teacher efficacy, motivation, and support to build and maintain positive teacher-student relationships.

To Participate

Please consider adding your expertise and passion to help guide this research. We have two opportunities to participate. Please click the Online Survey Groups button on the right below to get more information: