Your question is framed very well, because in asking “How can i get along with teachers?” you are assuming the responsibility for positive outcomes, a good thing, though if anything it is even more important for a teacher to assume responsibility in achieving the same goal.

One good approach– good for your own progress as a students and your own peace of mind– is not to take negative input from a teacher too personally. Negative input doesn’t just include the way papers are graded, and it doesn’t just include “constructive criticism”, sometimes it is just plain negative, mistaken, wrong (if your teacher is a human being, not an angel in disguise or a teaching robot!)

So, in getting negative input, whether constructive or not, remember that your teacher is human, and strive to be tolerant and forgiving. The teacher, after all, must put the day’s rudeness and misbehavior of students behind him at the end of the day and try to wipe the slate clean by roll call time tomorrow.

The way to control damage from even extremely, inappropriately negative input that might come in the course of a school day is to focus the mind forcibly on the positive. It works with bad test grades too. Not, “I just got 60 per cent on the test. I’m stupid! I might as well give up!” But “I got the majority — 60 per cent– of the answers right, so I’m not too dumb. How can I turn the other 40 per cent around?” Not, “The teacher is a [b with an itch] for being sharp-tongued and rude”, but what positives can I extract from this negative situation? How can I turn it around? How, by changing my behavior, can I change the teacher’s responses toward me?

“Appropriate and inappropriate” is also an intelligent concern, as “teacher” and “student” are merely roles, and “appropriate” is whatever positively enhances the role, and “inappropriate” is whatever destroys the positive interaction that the role is designed to supply.

It is inappropriate to disobey or try to get around classroom rules, and to behave in a way that undermines respect for the teacher as an instructor or a mentor. It is inappropriate to show antagonism or disrespect by openly defying the teacher– wearing a hat in class against the rules, slumping in the chair, having food and drink in the class, smirking and continuing in misbehavior when it is pointed out.

It is appropriate to be friendly and to joke and laugh a little when it doesn’t disrupt a lesson, classroom routine, and the teaching-learning process. But– contrariwise— one teacher and student wrote the book on inappropriateness when she wore his baseball cap in class (in disregard of the rule that no one was to wear a cap in class) and when she not only allowed him to break the rule against drinking soda in class, but even took a swig from the bottle.

These actions created a bad impression. Excessive buddy-buddy closeness between student and teacher does not enhance the class’s respect for her in her role as a teacher. Either extreme– open enmity or excessive intimacy with students– cripples a teacher’s effectiveness. It is the teacher’s responsibility to set the tone, but this doesn’t excuse a student’s misbehavior.

“Appropriate” is whatever works best for everybody concerned, and “inappropriate” is the opposite. Breaking the rules and upsetting classroom routine is always inappropriate.

The above are just examples. Common sense is the best guide.

Make sure to always great the teacher when entering the class.

Be certain that you have everything with you that you might need for the specific class.

Do you homework and hand in your assignments at least two days before the due date set by the teacher.

Pay full attention and participate, even when you feel that you are not knowledgeable about the topic. The teacher will recognize your effort.

Never ever be rude or make comments about the teacher. Although you might not like the teacher it is definitely worthwhile to respect the teacher with his or her views and weaknesses. Lastly go to class neatly dressed, not chewing gum or using your cellphone, teachers LOVE well behaved young adults.

As for personally there are many things you can do. If you wish to be on a more intimate level I can offer you no counsel. From personal experience I have made very good friends out of some of my teachers and at least one professor whom ended up being the Best Man at my wedding. Of course, he had a generous nature and an open heart. I cannot speak about what you are experiencing since no clues have been given.

Nevertheless the rule is to simply “be nice” and be interested. Flattery is okay if it remains clean. Take care.

Innappropriate: Telling the teacher you hate her/him.

speaking while the teacher is speaking,passing notes, not raising your hand and then blurting out an answer,etc

Appropriate: Ask for help, Do your best, be kind, talk to your teachers often, give other students a chance to answer (while doing that you can think of smart answers{not like how a bad student does} like ways to remeber things or different ways to to your work and still get the same and correct answer.)

[if you like your teacher good enough you can {but you dont have to} give him/her a gift.