Sentences with phrase «because teacher expectations»

The concept of self - fulfilling prophecy plays a huge role in teaching because teacher expectations often determine student outcomes.

Not exact matches

«Even if they don't know the different philosophies by name, just read through it because it's going to give insight into how teachers are interacting with your child, how they will discipline your child, what their expectations are, how the day is structured, everything.

Still, he found that running a college class is a lot different from running a high school class, mainly because student expectations and teacher responsibilities are different.

This is also why it is not advisable for teachers to change their teaching style or intensity of the practice from day to day too dramatically, because it messes up both student's mental expectations and their energy budgeting.

As teachers know, the year - level curriculum seriously misses the mark for many students, either because its expectations are too low or too high.

The only in - school reform that Rothstein mentions is the need to stop invoking slogans like «no excuses» to raise expectations for results because it undermines teacher morale.

Because of low expectations, mediocre teachers, a lack of options, ill - designed curricula — name your poison — poor kids have never had a chance to see their talents flourish.

Because academic resources are relatively scarce in higher - poverty schools (e.g., there are more disruptive peers, lower academic expectations, fewer financial resources, and less - competent teachers), parents in these schools seek teachers skilled at improving achievement even if this comes at the cost of student satisfaction.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

If our students fail to achieve it is because of the «inundating smog of low expectation» or our own «weak internal locus of control» — a failure to believe that we as teachers can control events that affect our students.

Comparing two teachers» expectations for the same student solves this problem, because the two teachers work in the same school environment and evaluate the student at the same point in time, and thus observe the same environmental and contextual factors that might influence a student's educational success.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

So for your social studies teacher who doesn't think being college - ready is right,... I would argue that it is criminal to have low expectations for kids because it guarantees that they won't achieve much of anything.»

An American teacher working in Japan argues that this also «forces teachers to care about their jobs and be active in their professional learning [because] when you move schools, there's a whole new set of kids [and] they may have certain expectations you have to live up to.»

«I think stress levels [among teachers] are very high because expectations are high and demands are much higher,» says Albert Madden, a guidance counselor at Stevens Elementary School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who has conducted stress - reduction workshops for teachers.

«I think we give them more autonomy now and mostly they do meet our high expectations and students have really thrived in this environment because the teachers have been willing to allow students that choice and freedom of where and how to work,» Fuller shares.

Garry's favorite teacher is Coach Kent Litton because he had high expectations and made Garry realize he was capable of achieving great things through hard work and perseverance.

Because these withdrawal assumptions are tied to large financial decisions, pension plans conduct regular «experience studies» to check their assumptions and compare their expectations with actual teacher turnover rates.

«The teachers» unions are in a terrible situation,» he said, «because on the one hand they want to argue that expectations are too high.

Since grade - level expectations and graduation requirements will remain the same, and because the new state assessment tools still align with Rhode Island's Common Core standards, teachers will not have to change their approach in the classroom.

They have trouble attracting good teachers because of the lack of discipline, and lack of expectations.

The goal is to revamp a process in which the vast majority of teachers are traditionally stamped with «satisfactory» or «meets expectations» ratings — if they are evaluated at all — either because of administrative incompetence or an interest in keeping the peace with politically powerful unions, reform advocates say.

The lesson Klein, Duncan, and others draw from this autobiography is that poor children today fail because their teachers, unlike the 1950s Mr. Harris, are overprotected by union contracts, have low expectations for poor students, and so barely try to teach them.

The true winners are the students who are seeing academic success because their teachers and school leaders hold high expectations, while their parents, families and communities support them.»

This might be because of an increase in accessible resources and a change of policies and expectations for teacher technology integration in school districts.

In addition to teachers» attitudes, this study also considered the attitudes and actions of administrators, because teachers are unlikely to change without clear expectations and encouragement (Chin & Hortin, 1994; Topp, Mortensen, & Grandgenett, 1995).

This mismatch in ethnicity is a problem because white teachers tend to have lower expectations for black students than black teachers have for the same students.

They learn from reliable research that ability grouping is a major contributor to such inequity because the low ability students get few opportunities to learn the skills of mathematical problem solving and they internalize the modest expectations their teachers have of them.

Excel Academy teachers hold students to high academic expectations, and are able to focus on effective instruction because consistent classroom management expectations are enforced by every teacher and followed by every student.

For teachers who were probationary, but not yet tenured, the court still found an unconstitutional impairment of their contract rights because these teachers had relied on the expectation of receiving tenure as a part of their decision making to remain as a teacher in a district.

Tribes Learning Community The TLC process improves learning because students feel appreciated by peers and teachers; are respected for different attributes; are actively involved in learning; and have positive expectations from others that they will succeed.

One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students, for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40

More - importantly, because the quality of teaching varies more within schools (from classroom to classroom) than among them, the racial myopia of teachers (and their low expectations for the poor and minority children in their care) are matters that have to be addressed in order to help all children succeed.

The research on Catholic schools finds that they succeed academically because the members of the school community — pastors, principals, teachers, parents, students — trust each other and hold each other to high expectations.

When teachers and school leaders expect less from students because of their racial background or their «tough home life,» their beliefs lead to behavior that conforms to those expectations.

KIPP teachers create classrooms defined by high expectations because they believe in every student's unlimited potential.

With the Common Core and the new evaluation system, you have to be hiring teachers who have a growth mindset for students because all children can learn to high expectations.

On our survey, seventy - eight percent of Polson students agreed that «Teachers expect me to be successful,» perhaps because they are steeped in high expectations.

When you work around the globe like we do, you're used to seeing all kinds of requirements and expectations that teachers around the world have for their students — because of this, we've developed the absolute best system possible to assist students with their assignments because we are fully capable of understanding what exactly students need to do in order to impress their teachers.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

Preoccupied teachers may take relational conflict more personal because they tend to hold high, unrealistic expectations of relationships with students.

when i first got to sixth grade i was worried because i thought the teachers were going to be hard but then i knew they had expectations but the teachers were amazing.