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Teacher–student relationships across the career
2005
This contribution explores the relation of teacher experience with features of teacher–student relationships. Cross-sectional and longitudinal data were used to investigate this relation. The cross-sectional data set consisted of data on teacher–student relationships of over 6000 teachers with 1–36 years of experience. Teacher experience was compared with the amount of teacher influence and proximity in the relationship.
Teacher experience and the teacher-student relationship in the classroom environment.
In the classroom environment the interpersonal relationship between teacher and students is an important element contributing to the learning process of students. In this chapter we explore the significance of the experience of the teacher in realising relationships with students appropriate from the perspective of student outcomes . We use data from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study to analyse differences between teachers in degree of dominant and co-operative behaviour in different stages of their professional career. The results show that teachers’ ideals of the teacher-student relationship are rather stable during the teaching career; they consistently strive for a high degree of dominance and cooperativeness. The actual teacher-student relationship however changes during the career. On average there is a significant increase in dominant behaviour of teachers during the first decade of their career: a movement towards the ideal teacher-student relationship. After this period dominance stabilises. On average there is no change in co-operative behaviour. There is no shift towards the ideal as experience grows. Implications of these findings for professional development of teachers in view of improving the classroom learning environment include training of dominant behavioural patterns and differentiation of accompanying cognitions and attitudes for pre- and inservice beginning teachers. During the career the cognitive component to training and staff development may be more important in order to support teachers to select appropriate skills in particular situations.
TEACHER - STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS TEACHING CAREERS OF TURKISH EFL TEACHERS
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers’ professional experience and students’ perceptions of their relationships with teachers. It also investigated the influence of these perceptions on students’ affect toward the course and the teacher. Fourteen high school teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) and 436 students participated in the study. Teachers had a professional experience of either two years or less or twenty years or more. Results showed that experienced teachers were perceived by students as significantly more co-operative than new teachers. There was no significant difference between influence behaviors of experienced and new teachers. Students’ perceptions of relationships with teacher had a significant effect on their affect toward the course and the teacher. Effect of proximity was higher for both forms of affect.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' professional experience and students' perceptions of their relationships with teachers. It also investigated the influence of these perceptions of students toward the course and the teacher. Fourteen high school teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) and 436 students participated in the study. Teachers had a professional experience of either two years or less or twenty years or more. Results showed that experienced teachers were perceived by students as significantly more cooperative than new teachers. There was no significant difference between influence behaviors of experienced and new teachers. Students' perceptions of relationships with teacher had a significant effect on their affect toward the course and the teacher. Effect of proximity was higher for both forms of affect.
The Importance of Relationships In Teacher Education
Journal of Education for …, 1999
The developing picture of the concerns and achievements of a cohort of newly qualified teachers is described and some of the themes that emerged are pursued in more detail. In particular we suggest that a knowledge and understanding of what teachers do well in their first year of teaching, gained through their views of a training course, could probably be used to complement the `deficit’ approach and help establish in-service teacher education and training on the basis of what teachers can do, in addition to what they cannot yet do. We also attempt to formulate a more general concept of the basis of teachers’ achievements and concerns, which may be of use in the design of teacher training and induction support programmes.
Students' Views of Teacher-Student Relationships in the Primary School
2008
This study investigated teacher-student relationships from the students' point of view at Perth metropolitan schools in Western Australia. The study identified three key social and emotional aspects that affect teacher-student relationships, namely, Connectedness, Availability and Communication Skills. Data were collected by questionnaire (N=139) with stem-items answered in two perspectives: (1) Actual: This is what does happen and (2) Idealistic: this is what I wish would happen, using four ordered response categories: not at all (score 1), some of the time (score 2), most of the time (score 3), and almost always (score 4). Data were analysed with a Rasch measurement model and a uni-dimensional, linear scale with 20 items (2 times 10 stem items), ordered from easy to hard, was created. The data were shown to be highly reliable, so that valid inferences could be made from the scale. The Person Separation Index (akin to a reliability index) was 0.90; there was good global student and item fit to the measurement model; there was good item fit; the targeting of the item difficulties against the student measures was good, and the response categories were answered consistently and logically. The difficulties of the items strongly supported the conceptualised structure of the variable. This study shows that research into teacher-student relationships is made possible using modern methods of measurement, and by considering primary students' points of view.
The Lasting Impact of Influential Teachers
Online Submission, 2014
Influence can be defined as having an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something. Teachers influence students in many different areas of students' lives, not only academically but socially as well. This article presents the findings of a study about how teachers influence their students-specifically students who have become teachers themselves. Thus, data was collected from fifteen working teachers who teach in Central Alberta (centered in Red Deer). Data suggested that teacher, influence can be categorized into five main themes: (1) building relationships, (2) a teacher's passion for their work, (3) mentoring students through modeling, (4) having high expectations of students; and, (5) the ways teachers go "above and beyond" in their work. Our research findings suggest the importance of growing and nurturing teacher-student relationships.
The Impact of the Student Teaching Experience on the Development of Teacher Perspectives
Journal of Teacher Education, 1984
Questions persist, according to the authors, with respect to how much influence student teaching plays in the teacher socializa tion process. Some researchers, such as Lortie, argue that the socialization of teachers occurs largely through the internaliza tion of teacher models experienced during the thousands of hours that individuals spend as pupils in classrooms. Others suggest that the prospective teacher's latent culture is relatively unimportant, that student teaching does have a significant impact on the development of teachers — an effect which is strengthened during the early years of a teacher's career. Find ings reported in this study tend to support the latent culture perspective; however, the authors also challenge Lortie by suggesting a view of student teacher socialization that is more negotiated and interactive; findings suggest that what student teachers bring to their teaching experience gives direction to socialization but does not totally determine the ou...
Teachers’ teaching and teacher-student relationships: Students’ perspectives
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This paper presents findings from a cross-sectional qualitative case study conducted at a public junior high school in Banda Aceh, focusing on students’ views of their teachers’ teaching practice and teacher-students relationships. In general, students’ views about the phenomenon under investigation were in deficit terms. These included students’ deficit views of teachers’ teaching practice and commitment, and interaction with students at the school affecting the learning of the young people at school. Research in the field provides evidences that quality teachers’ teaching and positive teacher-students relationships are among important factors for students’ social, emotional, and academic achievement.
Changes in teacher-student relationships
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Although teacher-student relationships lie at the heart of students' schooling experience, fundamental questions regarding these relationships remain unanswered.