- Provide engaging, learning opportunities
- Listen attentively and empathically to their students' needs, wants and hopes
- Impart positive, encouraging and supportive reinforcement
- Ask for students' opinions so they become part of the learning process
- Encourage autonomy and self-determination in their students
- Focus on process not outcomes
- Foster critical thinking and active learning
- Respect and care about their students' points of view
- Support students to become life-long learners
- Make students feel important and that they matter
- Motivate students to be their best selves
- Excite students about learning
- Challenge students to push further
- Nurture students' individual talents
- Believe in their students