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		<title>Teacher Expectations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher expectations are parts of school-wide expectations. They are so important since the teachers’ expectations influences student outcomes. Researchers have conducted several detailed tests of the ways teacher expectations are communicated to the students in classroom settings and how these &#8230; <a href="http://www.costaricarentacellphone.com/teacher-expectations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teacher expectations are parts of school-wide expectations. They are so important since the teachers’ expectations influences student outcomes. Researchers have conducted several detailed tests of the ways teacher expectations are communicated to the students in classroom settings and how these messages influence student outcomes. These researches clearly depict that the teacher expectations can have both positive and negative effects on students’ learning and achievement.</p>
<p>It was found that the most important finding from these researches is that teacher expectations can add and do affect students’ achievement and attitudes. These researchers mentioned that early in the school year, teachers form differential expectations for student behavior and achievement.</p>
<p>The kind of treatment of the teacher to the students tells students something about how they are expected to behave in the classroom and perform on academic tasks. If the teacher’s treatment is consistent over time, and if students do not actively resist or change it, it will likely affect their self-concepts, levels of aspiration, classroom conduct, achievement motivation, and interactions with the teacher. </p>
<p>Generally, these effects will complement and reinforce the teacher&#8217;s expectations, so that students will come to conform to these expectations more than they might have otherwise. These expectations create an inter-subjective reality in which students tend to perform up to expectations. Inter-subjectivity is the way that humans come to understand each other’s minds. Student performance, and indeed their future choices, may be determined through the reality created.</p>
<p>Eventually, this will affect student’s achievement and other outcomes. High-expectation students will be led to achieve near their potential. However, low expectation students will not improve as much as they could have improved if taught differently.</p>
<p>However, most researchers have concluded that teacher expectations are not generally formed on the basis of &#8220;false conceptions&#8221; at all. Rather, they are based on the best data and information available about the students. Even though the initial expectations formed by teachers may be realistic and appropriate, researchers have found that sustaining expectation effects can occur and can also limit students&#8217; learning and self-concept development.</p>
<p>For sustaining expectations to occur, it is only essential that teachers engage in behaviors that maintain students&#8217; and teachers&#8217; previously formed low expectations. A good example of this is by giving low-expectation students only drill work, easy questions and the like.</p>
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		<title>Multicultural Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multicultural education is an on-going course of action which requires commitment of both time and energy. The goal of multicultural education is to achieve an education free of inherited biases. Despite of the fact that there are laws that ban &#8230; <a href="http://www.costaricarentacellphone.com/multicultural-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Multicultural education is an on-going course of action which requires commitment of both time and energy. The goal of multicultural education is to achieve an education free of inherited biases. Despite of the fact that there are laws that ban discrimination, the United States is continuously inundated by attitudes that are prejudicial to many cultural, ethnic and social groups. It is due to these facts that inequality runs rampant in our society. Regrettably, there are many people in the United States who believe there is only one way to live, look, and behave, and if one chooses to walk a different road, this is considered as “Un-American”. These people are then scorned and ridiculed.</p>
<p>Many believe that multicultural education is the answer to the abovementioned injustices. Multicultural education is a philosophical concept whose ideals are built on the basic principles of equality, dignity, equity, freedom, and justice. When promoting democratic ideology and social justice, multicultural education also puts value on the cultural differences and challenges all forms of discrimination. A multicultural education acknowledges the fact that schools have a responsibility to prepare students developing attitudes toward fellow humankind.</p>
<p>What makes a multicultural school is not the amount of ethnic student enrolled in one time but more on how the said school deals with such diversity. Multiculturalism is a structure of beliefs as well as actions that acknowledges and reverses the presence of all diverse groups. The heart of multicultural education is the aptitude to work with others in a way that transcend all obstacles and produce unanimity.</p>
<p>There are a number of possible solutions to the problem. Start with retraining teachers. They should be re-educated. These educators need to be taught the skills needed to instill tolerance and acceptance from the ground up.  There is a need to rebuild our ethics and beliefs.</p>
<p>Another solution would be to have more racially diverse subject matter and study supplies. Also, the children should be taught in their mother tongue and then incorporate English as they become accustomed to the language. Also, new teaching supplies such as books and others have to be provided.</p>
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