[FocusOnBasics] expectations
Missy Slaathaug
mslaathaug at midco.net
Fri Mar 10 16:00:41 EST 2006
You can find it for the lowest price of about $17.00 on BestPrices.com.
It looks like a great book.
Just google it, and you will have lots of choices for where to go to
read about it.
Missy
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Barb,
The study seems very interesting. Would you please provide the complete
reference?
Thanks,
Jane
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From: Barb L <eslmax2004 at yahoo.com>
A new study just came out, The Color of Success, by Gilberto Conchas.
He's a sociologist who studied an urban high school which is successful
at getting minority students to graduate and go on to college. What he
found is that detracking, career academies and high teacher and parent
expectations were key to the success of these students.
The high achievement of the Vietnamese students was the most surprising,
as these students had none of the educational or economic advantages
usually associated with Asian students. However, they were still
treated as "the model minority" by the school and rose to meet the high
expectations placed on them.
Barb Linek
University of Illinois Extension
eslmax2004 at yahoo.com
Missy Slaathaug <mslaathaug at midco.net> wrote:
The movie was Stand and Deliver, and it is an excellent film. I used it
in one of my ESL speaking and listening classes when I taught grad
students already enrolled in degree programs. It's a great film.
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Tardaewether
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There have been studies on parental expectations too: if you expect your
child to graduate, he or she will. Thi s 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
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 6:13 PM
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Well why not look at a study from Kent ucky 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
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From: AWilder106 at aol.com
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Sent: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:31:25 EST
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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 lyi ng 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 t hat I found so shocking. What
can I say; I was very young.
Andrea.
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