How Did You Challenge the Traditional Student Teacher Dynamic?

The first thing that i did in the class, and this happened also in the first day, is that i was extremely candid with them about the fact that my relationnship to reading has recently become a problem for me. And so i wanted to establish a personal connection and really put us on a horizontal playing field. We used a noise cancelling machine in the room that we would turn on at the beginning of the class to cancel out all ambient noise. After a few minutes, it blends into the background, and you literally get enveloped in this environment, and you loose yourself in a book before you realize it. I'm going to go through the same experience as you, and i