Students connect when educators are open: 
A social studies teacher at Shortridge high school talks about his learning disability and aims to help others overcome their own difficulties: “You don’t get Enlightened, you don’t transcend them, you don’t reach nirvana.” In this teacher’s AP World History class, everyone participated in the class discussion. It was clear his students felt comfortable with him.
Teachers need to be an ally for students:
One of my French teachers at Centerville High School tells her students exactly what is on every test or quiz. Students trust this teacher and are grateful to her for dissolving the stress of what to know. Her students are prepared for upper level French classes because of what they learned with this teacher
Humor is effective in building relationships: 
Another French teacher at Centerville tells her students “les mains, not tes mains” (“the hands not your hands”), and continues: “You can’t own your body parts in French.” While this is a bizarre statement, it helps her students remember this fact. To this day whenever I put an article in front of a body part in French, I think back to when she told my own French class this.
Instructors showing care to students facilitates learning A Spanish teache
r and assistant principal at Shortridge states, “How you speak to
students is most important.” This teacher was referring to discipline at Shortridge. She says that the best way to help students is not to yell at them. Instead, have a quiet conversation to figure out what is wrong and why they are acting the way they are. She told our class that she has almost no problems with classroom management. Her students trust her as a result of the relationship she built with them.