The movie is "Stand and Deliver"


Virginia Tardaewether wrote:



>There have been studies on parental expectations too: if you expect 

your child to graduate, he or she will.  This reminds me of that movie 
about the math teacher in LA, can't remember the name of it, but his 
students completed higher math course and passed tests, but the 
administration didn't believe the results.  I think standards, from 
many angles, are vastly important.

>va

>

>Virginia Tardaewether 

>Chemeketa Community College 

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: focusonbasics-bounces at nifl.gov

>[mailto:focusonbasics-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf Of

>robinschwarz1 at aol.com

>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 6:13 PM

>To: focusonbasics at nifl.gov

>Subject: Re: [FocusOnBasics] a lament

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>

>Well why not look at a study from Kentucky about the effect of teacher 

>expectations on high school students.  No lying involved.   In this 

>study, two teachers were prepared in exactly the same way to do a new 

>program ( I believe it was in science).  The idea of the study was to 

>see if the program helped the students, but to the surprise of the 

>researchers the two classes achieved quite different results.  The only 

>factor that could be identified that influenced the results was teacher 

>expectation--the students of the teacher who was sure her students 

>could do this new, challenging work did very well, while the students 

>of the other teacher, who was sure the students would not get it, did 

>relatively poorly.  This is not news.  This is what is known as a self- 

>fulfilling prophecy.

>

>Studies were done in the 70's on the effect of labeling students on 

>teachers' expectations of the students.  Needless to say, the 

>expectations shifted drastically down when students were identified as 

>special needs in any way.

>

>Recent ( January) visits to several K-12 schools confirmed that this 

>attitude is alive and well among a lot of teachers and sped teachers.   

>Robin Schwarz

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: AWilder106 at aol.com

>To: focusonbasics at nifl.gov

>Sent: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:31:25 EST

>Subject: Re: [FocusOnBasics] a lament

>

>Hi Iris,

>

>I can't remember the name of the first researcher who did  a study on 

>low/high teacher expectations and their self-fulling prophecy, but I do 

>remember the study.  The resaercher got his data by lying to the 

>teacher about the ability of her students.  (Maybe more than one 

>teacher, I can't remember now.)

>

>When I read that I kind of stopped cold.  Toally unethical, of course.

>

>It was the idea of lying to the teacher that I found so shocking.  What 

>can I say;  I was very young.

>

>Andrea.

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