How can you get a teacher to like you?

Ok…don’t just give the basic answers like “participate in class” and stuff. Can you give specific things I can do or say to get them to like me? BE SPECIFIC

It’s more important that they respect you. Your teacher is not your friend.

That said, don’t be a grade grubbing, smart alecky, brown nosing know-it-all.

Well, you can’t really make anyone like you. My daughter was the type of student most teachers loved. She was polite and respectful. She worked hard, took pride in her work, turned her work in on time, asked questions when she needed help, was honest, etc. But she wasn’t the most outgoing and didn’t participate a lot. So, some teachers didn’t like that about her. At a certain point we learned she wasn’t going to become more extroverted so we stopped trying to get her to change. She participated when she needed to and when she felt comfortable. If a teacher liked someone else more because they were more outgoing, so be it.

Why is this so important?

Are we talking about fairness?
There were teachers I had, in high school, whom I knew didn’t really care for my personality. I did my work, participated in class, volunteered for tasks and basically understood that it really wasn’t important for them to like me.

In the end, the teachers respected me because I worked hard and noticed that I enjoyed learning the material, but I did not go out of my way to get them to like me-those were the brown-nosers.

When I worked at my high schools, I had students like that, who often irritated me, because they wanted LOR’s from me-I guess I was a popular staff member. In the end, if the student was a hard worker, put in effort, learned for the subject-and not for the grade, and was sincere, then I did write-up strong LOR’s.

There’s no sure-fire pickup line to get a teacher to like you. There are behaviors and attitudes that will help, but those would be generalities, so…