Htqe.2025.40

https://doi.org/10.22364/htqe.2025.40 | 562-574 | PDF

Investigating Teachers’ Views on their Communication with Students

Antra Roskoša¹, Inese Kočote¹
¹Riga Technical University, Faculty of Computer Science, Information Technology and Energy, Institute of Digital Humanities, Latvia

Abstract
Teachers’ views on their communication with students have always been an important issue. Communication with students with deviant behaviour is a special case. Nowadays the number of such students is still rising. Therefore, teachers have to adapt to the situation and look for the ways how to work with such students. This research involved the schools where the number of students with deviant behaviour is high, and was the part of the project “The Hard Nut of Communication” to stress that the communication with such students is difficult and needs much efforts. The project was carried out at Riga Educational and Informational Methodological Centre (RIIMC) and involved three schools – Riga Reinholds Shmelings Secondary School, Riga Secondary School No 15, and Riga Austrumu Primary School. The project tried to explore how improving teacher–student–teacher relationships affects their academic performance, social relationships, and future development. The project was implemented from October 2023 until April 2024. Fifteen teachers were part of the project. The present paper presents the data collected during the project. The research results show that teachers’ communication and cooperation with their students is of paramount importance in the teaching–learning process and can have a positive impact on students’ learning outcomes, behaviour, inclusion, and school belonging, as well as lead to a healthier lifestyle and improve students’ quality of life. Although the number of teachers participating in the project is small (15), the general trends show similar results. However, further studies will provide more reliable results.

Keywords: behaviour, belonging to school, communication (teachers–students–students), inclusion, quality of life, teaching–learning process

In: Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2025. Proceedings of Scientific Papers = Cilvēks, tehnoloģijas un izglītības kvalitāte, 2025. Rakstu krājums.  Ed. L. Daniela. Riga: University of Latvia, 2025. 698 p.
ISBN 978-9934-36-461-7 
https://doi.org/10.22364/htqe.2025