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Student- Teacher Relations: Student- teacher RelationsTeacher Relations. The majority of grammar schools are single-sex, but most secondary modern schools and Scottish secondary schools are coeducational. Comprehensive schools of both types are being developed. Relations between teachers and pupils in British schools are unusually friendly, although corporal punishment is still officially permitted and fairly common in Scotland.
In addition, a pair of earphones could transmit spoken instructions from the computer "teacher" or from tape recordings—a particularly useful system in language teaching. With these essential components, the student could question and respond, with the computer acting as a substitute teacher. Paradoxically, these impersonal tools can permit more individualized learning than is possible in the usual classroom, where a teacher must keep an entire class moving along at a fixed pace.
When the work period was nearly over the teacher said, "We'll have to stop work in five minutes." When they stopped, they talked over the things they had been doing.
During recess, which was a free-play period, the teacher observed individual children and their social relations. She occasionally made suggestions to bring shy children into a group or to help others develop skills and better methods of getting along with individuals and in groups.
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