Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations Dr

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

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• 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 4

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

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 (9 th ed. ).

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)

Behaviors That Teachers Display for High and Low Expectations

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

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

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

Student Responses To Expectations

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.

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

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

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • 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

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

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

High Expectations Response Opportunity Personal Regard Feedback

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

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

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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

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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

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

Interactions that Facilitate High Expectations: Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge • Recall information Comprehension • Ideas are organized Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation • Take knowledge and apply it • Identify reasons, causes or motives • Produce original ideas and solve problems • Make judgment about something

Bloom’s Taxonomy Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) Comprehension Knowledge Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application

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Personal Regard • • Proximity Courtesy Touch Personal Interest

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

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

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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 (9 th ed. ).

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

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

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

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

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

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

High Expectations Response Opportunity Personal Regard Feedback

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)

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