Family Strengths: Everybody

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Raising expectations

• High expectations of school leaders, teachers,
  students, parents and community members support
  the educational achievement of all students at
  all stages of schooling, particularly during
  critical transition points.

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Raising expectations

• Aspirations are the hopes and goals people hold
  for their own or others achievements.
• Expectations are the beliefs and assumptions
  people have about their own or others likely
  achievements.

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Raising expectations

• Click here to view Professor Barbara Combers
  video excerpt 1

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Raising expectations

• What are the aspirations of students in your
• school or classroom?
• How do your expectations of your students
• match their aspirations?

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Raising expectations

• What children come to believe about themselves
  is a result of the messages from significant
  others such as parents and teachers.

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Raising expectations

• There is no research that supports the view that
  students from low SES backgrounds will have less
  learning potential than more advantaged students
  or that their failure is inevitable.
• Henderson Berla, 1995

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Raising expectations

• Students whose parents communicate high
  expectations of them are more likely to believe
  that they are capable of achieving high
  educational outcomes.

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Whose responsibility is raising expectations?
FAMILY
TEACHER
STUDENT
PRINCIPAL
COMMUNITY
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Raising expectations

• Click here to view Professor Peter Freebodys
  video excerpt 2

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Raising expectations

• Teachers, parents and students expectations
  of themselves and others are mutually shaped.
• One aspect of expectations cannot be
  considered without taking account of the
  important role played by others.

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Raising expectations

• Teachers expectations of students may be
• influenced by
• students prior achievements
• language and cultural backgrounds
• social and economic class
• gender
• classroom placement
• personal characteristics such as appearance
• behaviour and attitudes to learning
• community
• media.

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Raising expectations

• Overwhelmingly, the research indicates that, of
  the factors that schools can control, quality
  teaching is the greatest single factor in
  students achievement and that, in fact, quality
  teaching makes the difference.
• Rowe, 2002

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Raising expectations

• A focused application of the Quality Teaching
  framework, supported by professional learning
  opportunities, has the potential to reconnect
  students over time, this in turn challenging
  teachers beliefs and expectations in ways that
  might reinforce a more positive cycle of
  increasingly high quality pedagogy for low SES
  and ATSI sic student groups.
• Griffiths et al 2007

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Raising expectations

• When teachers set high but attainable goals for
  academic performance, academic performance
  usually increases.
• Burke, 1995

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Raising expectations

• Students expect their teachers to know what
  theyre talking about, to treat all students
  fairly and to create classroom environments which
  support learning.

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Raising expectations

• Students who believe that they are
• competent and are capable of achieving
• high standards are more likely to be
• motivated to learn.

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Raising expectations

• Parents are more likely to see education as
  crucial to their childrens chances of future
  success, and hold higher aspirations for their
  children than they held for themselves.

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Raising expectations

• Click here to view Professor Jenny Ruge's video
  excerpt 3

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Raising expectations - activity 3A

• Consider how the student in the video was
• supported by the class teacher, parents,
• support teachers and others to improve his
• literacy skills.

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Raising expectations activity 3B

• Consider the following questions
• Where are we/am I now?
• View the school or (draft) plan
• Look for evidence of high expectations
• Where would you like to be?
• Brainstorm ways to raise expectations
• in the school or (draft) plan for the future
• What actions are required to get to question 2?
• What are the challenges to overcome?

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Raising expectations

• DANGER!!
• LOW EXPECTATIONS
• CAN BECOME
• SELF FULFILLING
• PROPHECIES

STOP