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Students learn best when they feel safe and cared for. Teachers should know how to create caring environment at school as well as home::

- More and more, educators are recognizing that these skills — often called “social and emotional” skills — are inextricably intertwined with the academic skills. Just that these educators need an in-depth understanding of what these skills are, and how to implement in every day life. - These types of skills could help to care for and advocate for oneself and others — self-regulation, responsibility, empathy, and discipline, among scores of other skills. - It will take significant system-wide and school-wide changes to make sure every child gets this kind of holistic education; teachers cannot do that work alone. - Build a strong relationship with the students. Students learn best when they feel safe and cared for. Let each student know that you respect and care for her as an individual.  - When a child misbehaves, frame it as a poor choice — not evidence that he is a bad kid. Discuss behavior with students by working with them to set classroom norms and having regular meetings ab

How students' mathematical skills can be improved by appreciating and focusing on mistakes:

"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw - As a teacher we must accept that mistakes are a part of process of learning. So accept the mistakes of your students and instead of just pin pointing on mistakes, give them an opportunity to reflect on what and where they went wrong. - Specifically in subjects like mathematics just grading a test paper will not help the students. They inturn should know exactly where did the mistake happen. ✓ Mistake could be because of few reasons as below: - Confusion between concepts. - Lack of clarity on conceptual understanding. - Lack of concentration. - Misapplication of operations rules. - Lack of practice. - Before math class, talk about “mathematical courage,” or the idea that students should ask questions when they don’t understand something, be unafraid to make mistakes, explain their thinking, listen to how other people thought about a problem