Get Your Students Hired
The challenging student is more difficult to bond with and often has few adult relationships. As a teacher, it is important that you go out of your way to show your students that you like and value them. Simply going out of your way to greet your challenging students each morning or asking them questions about sports or hobbies they are interested in is a way to display that interest, which in turn fosters positive relationships.
I have to disagree with this point because if the instructor is asking questions to "display interest", I think the student is going to see through that as a ruse and not only act against it, but develop some resentment toward the instructor. Not good.
Get to know the student where they are but be genuine because any illusion or facade will undo any inroads.
-R