Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Teacher's expectations
What you expect is what you get from your students. This thing every teacher should put in mind while making expectations and thoughts about her students. Teacher expectations could be productive or wasteful and harmful for the students. It could be productive when the teacher expects that her students are able to reach the standards and work with them according these positive expectations, and thus the students will act upon them and will produce high achievements. On the other hand, if the teacher has negative expectations for a student for example, this student will internalize these expectations and he will think that he is not able to do well and reach the standards and this will affect the student in a very negative way which makes him careless about the school and in sometimes he will quit learning. Thus the good teacher should have positive expectations for all the students and help them to achieve those expectations, and should praise and value any single achievement of the students because it will encourage them so much.
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Teachers form expectations for student performance and tend to treat students differently depending on these expectations. What you expect is what you get and the teacher can raise or lower students’ performance be expecting more or less from them. In other words it is important to expect something positive to get positive things. So, it is very important to have positive expectations toward our students and make them feel that they could do it, they could achieve standards, and never give up on them.
As Rabab mentioned never give up on your student, plus you should insist that he can do it just need to think more and work hard. Therefore when you want them to give you the best , you should also give the best of you in order to be equal and blame no one.
Teacher's expectations must always be positive so that students will be encouraged all the time and to keep engaged in classroom discussions. Teacher's expectations must not be negative because they lead to lack of performance and achievement, whereas when they are positive then students will feel that they are respected and that the teacher cares about them and cares about their success. When the teacher sets positive expectations she will get them by the end of the year and through students' performances.
Experienced teachers always advice new ones to put explicit rules and enforce them from day one. Expecting specific behavior and equitably acting on the rules will lead to an orderly classroom. In addition to behavior, what teachers expect of students academically influences their achievements.
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