Teacher Expectations

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Teacher Expectations Pages 453-458 Emily
Vulcan Amy Worst Erin Hagny Katie Strong
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• Two Kinds of Teacher Expectations
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Teachers form low, inaccurate expectations of
  students. Student ultimately live up to these
  expectations
• Sustaining expectation effect
• Teachers form an idea about students but do not
  change ideas when students show improvements in
  performance.

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Group Discussion How did our activity and the
movie clip relate to teacher expectations??
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• Sources of Expectation

• Intelligence Test Scores
• Gender
• Permanent Record Files and Notes From Previous
  Teachers
• Knowledge of Ethnic Background
• Knowledge of Older Brothers and Sisters
• Previous Achievement and Behavior of the Student
• Students After School Activities
• When student performance does not fit
  expectations, a teacher may dismiss behavior that
  seems out of character.

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• Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement
• Rosenthal and Jacobson experimented with giving
  teachers groundless expectations of their
  students. This experiment had really no effects
  on students.
• Alvidrez and Weinstein experimented with teachers
  who came to their own conclusions about students.
  
• Teachers judgments of student ability at age 4
  predicted student grade-point average at age 18.
  

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Teacher Behavior and Student Reaction

• Instructional Strategies
• Some teachers give too much information while
  others do not leave enough leeway
• Have students of differing abilities work
  together to form solutions
• Teacher-Student Interactions
• Generally teachers are more encouraging toward
  higher-achieving students
• Avoid giving too much encouragement/coaching
  toward higher-achieving students, and too little
  encouragement to lower-achieving students. Equal
  amounts of encouragement will produce positive
  results.

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A Role model for teacher expectations
Thanks Dr. Feinstein, for being a teacher
expectation super star!