IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 23, Issue 3, Ver. 10 (March. 2018) PP 52-59 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-2303105259 www.iosrjournals.org 52 | Page Investigation In To the Types of Teacher-Student Relationship in Institution of Learning in Yobe State, Nigeria. Ali Garba Kolo a , Umar Sale Baba b , Ahmed Babayo c , Wan MuniraBinti Wan Jaafar d A&C MaiIdrisAlooma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State. B Yobe State University, Damaturu, Nigeria & C Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Corresponding Author: Ali GarbaKolo Abstract:The study focuses on the types of teacher-student relationship in Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu, Yobe State, Nigeria.In the research a total of 312 respondents was selected through stratified and simple random sampling method. The findings revealed that, the most prevalence types of teacher-student relationship in the school was authoritarian (paternalistic 69.23%) while on the most effective types of teacher-student relationship therapist (89.1%) appeared as the strongest variable for smooth teacher-student relationship in the Polytechnic. The study recommend that: The management of the Polytechnic should devise an effective method of monitoring teacher student relationship; such as use of questionnaire, telephone lines for complaints from the students etc. should be exploited to elicit responses from students on their relationship with teachers. Both students and teachers should be discouraged from answering relationship on religion, family ties and personality influence. Teachers should treat everybody the same way irrespective of religion or influence of the person. Students should always learn to be punctual in their class and follow teachers’ instruction. Most teachers loosed interest in student, if they discover the student does not keep appointment or follow their instruction and committed to service within the profession. They should also be supportive, human and friendly to students. It is believed that these recommendations would enhance teacher student relationship in Damaturu Polytechnic and other institution of learning in the State and world at large. Keywords: Teacher-student relationship, Polytechnic students, types of teacher-student relationship, Effective, prevalence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 19-03-2018 Date of acceptance: 02-04-2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction The teacher student relationship is central to the practice of education and is essential for the delivery of high quality teaching and learning process (Brophy& Good, 1986). A student must have confidence in the competence of their teachers and also must feel that they can confide in him/her knowledge. For most teachers, the establishment of good rapport with a student is crucial. The teacher student relationship can be analyzed from the perspective of ethical concerns, in terms of how well the goals of education and justice are achieved. Many other values and ethical issues added to these in which different societies, periods, culture and different values may be assigned different priorities. For example in last 40 years teachers and professional in education in the western world had increasingly emphasized student autonomy in teaching and learning process and the types of relationship can also be analyzed in terms of social power relationship or economic transaction (Metioba 2008:31). The types of teacher-student relationship is important to both parties (teachers and students). The better the relationship in terms of mutual respect, knowledge, trust, shared values and perspectives about education, life, time available and better will be the amount and quality of knowledge to the student which is sometimes transferred in both directions is very important and where such relationship is poor the teacher ability to and the student is more likely to distrust the proposed knowledge (Timothy & Charity, 2004). Furthermore, hardworking and committed to responsibilities, biological (sex) factors as well as several economic factors affecting human relationship in any situation (Okafor 2008). A study in to the types of teacher-student relationship in one of the Nigerian Federal Polytechnics is intended to give an insight in to real or practical types of teacher-student relationship which have always play a vital role in student’s academic performance in Nigerian institutions of learning and world at large (Fan, 2012 &Maina, 2013).