From research studies we find that effective teachers facilitate learning by truly caring about their students‘ engagement (Noddings, 1995). They work at developing interrelationships that create spaces for students to develop their mathematical and cultural identities. They have high yet realistic expectations about enhancing students‘ capacity to think, reason, communicate, reflect upon and critique their own practice, and they provide students opportunities to ask why the class is doing certain things and with what effect (Watson, 2002). The relationships that develop in the classroom become a resource for developing students‘ mathematical competencies and identities.