Reflect on your rapport with the students.

To put it mildly, my students love me. I think this comes from a combination of things. First off, I am a naturally sarcastic and witty person which is not something that usually describes teachers so I think they enjoy that. When I was in high school I had a young biology teacher who utilized humor to make bio and anatomy more interesting and when I was trying to figure out what type of teacher I wanted to be I knew that with my personality I could do the same thing, and it's worked beautifully. Because kids never know what I'm going to say they pay attention more, because I can tell stories that may not seem entertaining in everyday context or to anyone who may read this, which I doubt anyone will (a quick, generalized example, Ben Franklin called up his brother on his cell phone and said "Yo I invented electricity) but when that's coming from a teacher kids find it funny and it keeps them interested. Also they know I care about them and want to succeed and understand the material. Whether they sense this consciously or subconsciously I don't know. And probably most influential on my students is that I am a young teacher. They can identify with me more, half the girls in my classes have crushes on me and they are in general more interested to spend time with someone they identify more as a peer and less as one of their parents.