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If, at any point, your relationship with your teacher happens to be entirely negative and you are worried that this will affect your grades in the future, then you are right to be concerned. In fact, many teachers often bring up your differences with him or her mostly during the session and may not even respond to your emails.

There can be many reasons for conflict between students and teachers, ranging from the most trivial to the most outrageous cases.

Here are a few of them:

You openly show that you are not interested in the subject.
In academic practice, it often happens that the studied subject is quite boring, and the teacher, monotonously reading pre-prepared material, it would seem, and not trying to interest in it. As a result, you spend a couple of hours on the phone or chatting with your mates. Naturally, the teacher will be annoyed by your behavior. Until the time he will not show a proper reaction, but when it comes time for the session, you will be twice as hard to pass his subject.

What should you do in this situation?
Show the teacher that you are interested in his or her subject. Ask questions you are interested in, come up after the class with topics you are interested in, and discuss them. Memorise your teacher's name and write down all his or her notes. In this way, you will not only gain the teacher's trust and respect, but possibly an automatic in his or her subject.

You've said too much.
A classmate of mine once had an incident when, in the corridor after a lecture, he made a seemingly innocent joke about the teacher who was teaching it. Ironically, the teacher was walking right behind the group of guys. Without saying anything, he simply walked past, pretending not to notice the joke.

It was session time, the joker had learned the subject from cover to cover and was ready for any additional questions. The exam was written perfectly, but the teacher did not think it was enough to check the student in writing and called him for an oral examination. The oral examination was also passed without a flaw, but the student still got a "good" instead of an "excellent" on his report card. Why? The teacher replied that he knew the answer to that question.

What to do in this case?
First, the most effective and useful rule is to always watch your language. Whatever happens when you are in an official institution, behave appropriately. If you happen to have inadvertently said something unnecessary, just find the strength to apologise to the teacher, because you were in the wrong in that situation.