Student and teacher perceptions on student-teacher relationship quality: A middle school perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara L. Prewett ◽  
David A. Bergin ◽  
Francis L. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Teacher Relationship ◽  
Teacher Relationships

This study investigated 336 fifth- and sixth-grade middle school students' relationships with their ten mathematics teachers. Authors used a five-step hierarchical multiple linear regression to examine teacher and student factors related to students' quality of relationships with their teachers. Analyses revealed that teachers' student relationship perceptions positively predicted their students' perceptions and the students' reports of their mathematics interest and self-efficacy positively predicted teacher relationships. Teachers' prosocial classroom behavior and social-emotional support behaviors were the strongest predictors of students' views of high quality relationships with their teachers; both prosocial classroom behaviors and social-emotional support are malleable, and authors discuss implications for how teachers' behaviors shape students' positive views of their student-teacher relationships.

Investigating the Association Between Home-School Dissonance and Disruptive Classroom Behaviors for Urban Middle School Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Tyler ◽  
Jennifer L. Burris ◽  
Sean T. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
Home School ◽  
Classroom Behaviors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mastery Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Disruptive Classroom Behaviors

Disruptive classroom behaviors are a major schooling dilemma in urban schools. While several contextual and motivational factors have been statistically associated with disruptive classroom behaviors, one overlooked factor has been home-school dissonance. The current study examined the relationship between 260 middle school students’ reports of perceived home-school dissonance, several motivational antecedents of academic performance, and disruptive classroom behaviors. Six hundred sixty middle school students completed six subscales of the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS), including the Home-School Dissonance subscale, Mastery Goal, Performance Approach, and Performance Avoidance Goal Orientations, and the Disruptive Classroom Behavior subscales. Home-school dissonance scores were significantly associated with lower mastery goal orientation and lower academic efficacy scores. Home-school dissonance scores were also significantly associated with higher disruptive classroom behavior scores and higher performance approach and performance avoidance goal orientation scores. In addition, structural equation modeling with multiple mediators showed that mastery goal orientation and performance approach goal orientation mediated the relationship between home-school dissonance and disruptive classroom behavior.

scholarly journals Humanizing Student–Teacher Relationships for Black Children: Implications for Teachers’ Social–Emotional Training

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592093331
Author(s):  
Kamilah B. Legette ◽  
Leoandra Onnie Rogers ◽  
Chezare A. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Student Teacher ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
School Cultures ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Teacher Relationships ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
Student Teacher Relationships

A growing number of scholars in the field of urban education compellingly demonstrate the myriad ways U.S. schooling for Black youth is dehumanizing. Social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly, transformative social emotional learning (TSEL) has come to the fore as a promising intervention to promote positive inclusive school cultures and relationships while recognizing and accounting for the realities of racial oppression. Here, we discuss teachers’ capacity to develop and negotiate student–teacher relationships that acknowledge and actively confront the dehumanization of Black youth in schools. We provide recommendations for teachers’ social emotional training that can effectively humanize learning environments for Black youth.

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