Factors that Enhance Student-Teacher Relationships
Teachers who are themselves, do not base their behavior on how they think a teacher should behave, are trustworthy and sincere.
Teacher Authenticity
Safety, trust, control, belonging, and mastery
Basic Needs
Sorting students into educational categories holds an inherent danger because ______________________.
It creates a false impression that students' educational needs are clear cut.
A teacher's personality, values, beliefs, and attitudes naturally show up in the way they teach. Our students are always learning from who we are.
We teach who we are
If a student’s degree of power is not met in the classroom, they will ________________.
Find a way to exercise it in any form.
Ensures that all students feel safe in the classroom. Positively impacts students' attitudes, interests, productivity, and achievement.
Trust
Age, gender, race or ethnicity, language background, socioeconomic status, and learning needs.
Demographics
As a teacher, labeling students things such as learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and mild intellectual disability imply that _________________________.
Comments, questions, responses, phrases, tone, and actions made by teachers. Makes a difference in students' attitudes toward their teacher and content.
Language/Body Language
We can learn from situations by making inferences from what we observe without having to be directly involved.
Social Learning Theory
A way of relating to students that allows for humanity to show, overcomes barriers, invites participation, encourages risk taking, bonds people.
Sense of Humor
Teachers need to structure their lessons based on what stage of_____ their students are in. Stages: preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational (Piaget).
Cognitive development
To build a classroom environment where students do not feel confined by stereotypes and expectations, teachers can _________________.
Use non gender specific language, encourage both male and female students to discuss their feelings, and challenge female and male students to succeed.
____ ____ is how they see and understand the world around them. Defines how they approach classroom management.
Teacher's Worldview
Principles one and two of social learning state that students as a collective learn lessons indirectly from interactions between teacher and students, and _________.
For some students, peers might be more influential than teachers.
Teachers can convey this through: Pronouncing students' names correctly, allowing for mistakes and providing fresh starts, being honest and non-judgmental.
Respect for students
One of the best indicators how student success. Positive ___ ____ has an impact on grades, test scores, attitude, and behavior.
Level of Family Involvement/ Family-School Relationships
Students of color are disciplined more frequently than White students because negative feelings intensify when teachers or students feel threatened. One way teachers can combat this challenge is _____________.
Recognize cultural differences.
The way a person thinks, learns, and processes information. If teachers only use strategies related to their own ___ ___ it can harm students who differ from them.
Cognitive Style
Principles three and four of social learning state that teachers should encourage influential students to support group goals, and _________.
Students learn through indirect observations what behaviors will have an effect on their teacher.
Mood regulation, impulse control, intrinsic motivation, empathy, social competence
Abilities teachers can foster in students to help them be emotionally secure
Infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adulthood, adult age, old age
Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development
To establish a culturally responsive learning environment, teachers should ___________________.
Recognize their own cultural biases, understand how students’ backgrounds influence learning, learn about students’ cultural heritage, and apply equitable classroom management practices.
The invisible rules and expectations that guide how people behave in certain situations. Helps students understand how to act in class, who has authority, what is expected of them, what to expect.
Social Frames
Principles five and six of social learning state that teachers should use social learning mechanisms to their advantage and ___________.
Teachers should make tomorrow better as a result of what they did today.