The aim of this study is to assess how students from different contexts (upper secondary school and university) experience teacher behavior. The participants, (N=243) responded to a survey consisting of teacher behavior checklist(TBC). The result reveals five dimensions of teacher behavior. These dimensions were 31 European Society of Psychology Learning and Teaching analytic, caring, interactive, coaching and instrumental professionalism. The analysis revealed differences according to gender as female students rated the factors in four of five cases as more important than male students did. There were also differences according to educational level. Upper secondary school students rated the caring dimension with skills such as good listener, relation builder and understanding higher than university students did. University students rated the instrumental professionalism dimension with skills such as technical knowledge and well-prepared higher than the secondary upper school students did.