Causes of Poor Student Teacher Relationships Poor teacher-student relationships result from the instructor's lack of awareness.Each student's ability to learn and interact with educators is influenced by their personality, family backgrounds, mental processes, learning styles, priorities, maturity levels, and academic ambitions .When a teacher fails to regard an individual student's educational needs, relationship problems between teachers and students arise.In addition, a poor student-teacher relationship will develop if the educator's main or only priority in the classroom is academics .