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Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations

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Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations

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  1. Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations Dr. Summer Whitmore, SPDG

  2. Downloading Files You can download all of today’s materials in the FILES 2 Pod on the bottom left of your screen at any time during the presentation • Click on the selected file • Click DOWNLOAD FILE • Select the destination where you would like to save the file

  3. People First Language “People First Language puts the person before the disability and describes what a person has, not who a person is.” Kathie Snow. (n.d.) A few words about People First Language. Disability is Natural. Retrieved August 1, 2012 from http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/images/PDF/pfl-sh09.pdf

  4. Gain knowledge of the importance of high expectations in the classroom • Gain knowledge of students’ responses to high expectations • Gain knowledge of examples of high expectations in the classrooms

  5. Vocabulary • Teacher Expectations are inferences or assumptions made about future student behavior.

  6. Teacher Expectations • have both a positive and negative effect on student learning and achievement • influence the ways in which teachers evaluate students, behave toward students, and make decisions about students Good, T. L., & Brophy, J. E. (2003). Looking in classrooms (9th ed.).

  7. Pygmalion Effect • asserts that “ones expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that confirm those expectations” Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)

  8. Behaviors That Teachers Display for High and Low Expectations

  9. Teacher Behavior for Students with High Expectations • Praise students for success and less likely to criticize for failure in classroom task • Offer feedback on assignments at a higher rate • Correct and probe for students to answer questions • Criticism as a means of communicating high standards • Grading-given the benefit of the doubt Good and Weinstein (1986): General Dimensions of Teachers’ Communication of Differential Expectations

  10. Teacher Behavior for Students with Low Expectations • Wait less time for students to answer questions • More likely to give the answer than probe • Tend to reward inappropriate or incorrect responses • Pay less attention/or do so privately more often than publicly • Call on less frequently • Seat student further away • Smile less/less eye contact • Offer less learning material • Criticism as a means of degrading them, cutting them off from attempts to complete work Good and Weinstein (1986): General Dimensions of Teachers’ Communication of Differential Expectations

  11. Teacher Behavior-Effect on Learning • Widen the gap between low and high achieving students • Affect students’ own beliefs about their competencies

  12. Student Responses To Expectations

  13. Student Passivity • Defined-inactive; a lack of initiative • Due to students being called on less often, teachers giving answers, students having a shorter wait time and students not likely to have the correct response.

  14. Silent Students Why? • Personal anxiety or anticipation of possible embarrassment • Low self-confidence vs. low knowledge • Cultural reasons • Prefer to learn by listening and thinking

  15. Silent Students: Perspectives on More Verbal Classmates • Irritating • Self-Centered • Keeping others from having a turn • Smart (know it all) Rosenthal, R. (1991). Teacher expectancy effects: A brief update 25 years after the Pygmalion experiment. Journal of Research in Education

  16. Self-FulfillingProphecy • Defined -- The process by which a person’s expectations about someone can lead to that someone behaving in ways which confirm to the expectations • Pygmalion in the Classroom -- Research by Rosenthal and Jacobson

  17. Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Expectations • Expectations, either high or low, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. • Teachers’ beliefs about student potential are particularly powerful for students of color and students from poor families. Lisa Delpit (2012). Multiplication is for White People

  18. High Expectations • High expectations is both a belief about student capability and specific actions undertaken to make those beliefs a reality.

  19. High Expectations

  20. Response Opportunities • Individual Help • Probing, Rephrasing, and Clues • Wait Time • Equitable Response Opportunities • Higher Level Questions

  21. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Wait Time • Students who volunteer to answer will increase as will the length of their responses • Responses will demonstrate critical thinking supported by evidence or logic

  22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnuSUL0ymM

  23. Equitable Response Opportunities • The number of times teachers call on students is directly related to the level of expectations they have for them • Teachers call on students when they have confidence in their ability to answer a question • Teachers call on less students in whom they have little confidence

  24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W0Yrk3GZ_U

  25. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Questioning • Leveling questions is a good practice, it helps students to stretch their thinking • Rephrase questions to aid students understanding • Give students clues rather than pass over them

  26. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Questioning • If students are only asked questions that require low levels of intellectual involvement they will tend to think accordingly • Students who are given questions based on higher levels of thinking will tend to think more creatively

  27. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Bloom’s Taxonomy

  28. Bloom’s Taxonomy Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS)

  29. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW8JQfjmhCE&feature=youtu.be

  30. Personal Regard • Proximity • Courtesy • Touch • Personal Interest

  31. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Proximity • Proximity communicates value • Provides the teacher an opportunity to develop a bond with each individual

  32. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Touching • Shake hands • High five • Thumbs up • Smile Boynton & Boynton (2005) Educator's Guide to Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems

  33. http://vimeo.com/41421052

  34. Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Personal Interest • Incorporating students’ personal interests into academics • Noticing individual accomplishments and important events in students' lives • Interacting with students as individuals Good, T. L., & Brophy, J. E. (2003). Looking in classrooms (9th ed.).

  35. http://youtu.be/xNIJCs0U1PM

  36. Expectations and Support • Increase expectations without helping students achieve success almost always leads to frustration and failure

  37. Feedback • Affirm or Correct Response • Praise Performance • Give Reason For Praise • Listen Attentively • Accept and Reflect Feelings

  38. Feedback: Grading Strategy • What does an “F” really mean? • Grading: A, B, C, and NY (Not Yet!) communicates what is expected from students

  39. Feedback with Families • Effective teachers produce and share progress reports and grades weekly with families and students • Reaffirms the teachers and families approach to students learning Porterfield & Carnes (2012) Why Social Media Matters

  40. Feedback • Beginning and ending every instructional segment with a review of past learning and the big picture • Inspiring students to probe “why?” and “how do you know that you know?” • Requiring students to express their thinking and learning through speaking, writing and designing

  41. Feedback • Students need constant feedback on how well they are performing • Feedback is a two way proposition

  42. High Expectations

  43. Building Capacity • When you leave today, what will you do with this information? • How will you share it with others in your district? • When will you share it? (Timeline)

  44. www.laspdg.org Summer Whitmore swhitm1@lsu.edu The contents of this PowerPoint presentation were developed under a grant from the US Department of Education, #H323A110003. However those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

  45. Reminder -In order to receive a certificate for 1 CLU, you must complete the online reflection at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pt2highexp before January 22, 2016

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