What does it mean to be relational as a teacher? How will you interact with your students to accomplish this? 

There is an old phrase people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. You can have high standards and high expectations but until they know that you have their best interest at heart they often aren't motivated. From my limited experience teaching is a sales job. You're selling a lifestyle you're selling a college education. In sales, you have the first 7 seconds when people are making up their mind to listen to you. Sales isn't logical it's all about relationships and a whole lot of trust. I think that education is similar. They are trusting you that a middle-class lifestyle is all that it's cracked up to be. That if I follow the class curriculum that I will understand the content.