The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Teacher Perception on Low Achievers

2021 ◽  
pp. 377-396
Author(s):  
Rhonda Jeffries ◽  
Hope Reed
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Perception ◽  
High School English ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Schedule Design ◽  
Course Placement ◽  
Effect Theory

Using Rosenthal and Jacobsen's Pygmalion Effect Theory and Bandura's Social Learning Theory, this chapter explores the perceptions of high school English/language arts and math teachers who teach low academic level track courses. The teachers' narratives describe their beliefs regarding academic ability grouping of students and the associated achievement gap that is often a result of this stratifying structure. Findings from the narratives reiterate the importance of teacher awareness regarding the impact of critical pedagogy as a fundamental element of teaching for social justice. The chapter indicates the usefulness of teacher narrative to influence alternative methods for course placement and schedule design in the high school curriculum.

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Teacher Perception on Low Achievers

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Rhonda Jeffries ◽  
Hope Reed
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Perception ◽  
High School English ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Schedule Design ◽  
Course Placement ◽  
Effect Theory

Using Rosenthal and Jacobsen's Pygmalion Effect Theory and Bandura's Social Learning Theory, this chapter explores the perceptions of high school English/language arts and math teachers who teach low academic level track courses. The teachers' narratives describe their beliefs regarding academic ability grouping of students and the associated achievement gap that is often a result of this stratifying structure. Findings from the narratives reiterate the importance of teacher awareness regarding the impact of critical pedagogy as a fundamental element of teaching for social justice. The chapter indicates the usefulness of teacher narrative to influence alternative methods for course placement and schedule design in the high school curriculum.

What is English? Who decides? An interview with Lisa Scherff

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
English Language ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
High School English ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
The Subject

In this month’s interview, Kappan’s editor talks with high school English teacher and researcher Lisa Scherff about the ongoing struggle over who gets to define the English language arts curriculum. Dating back to the creation of the subject area, more than a century ago, classroom teachers have advocated for a varied course of study that helps students use language more effectively across a range of contexts. However, explains Scherff, they have always had to contend with college professors, textbook publishers, school boards, and others who’ve sought to constrain the curriculum.

Effects of Peer-assisted Multimedia Vocabulary Instruction for High School English Language Learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Sara L. Jozwik ◽  
Shaqwana Freeman-Green ◽  
Tara L. Kaczorowski ◽  
Karen H. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Vocabulary Instruction ◽  
High School English

scholarly journals Implications of Interrelationship among Four Language Skills for High School English Teaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengyu Nan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
System Theory ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
Simple Combination

Theoretically, four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are interrelated and interactive in real communication. According to the system theory, the improvement of whole language ability can not be achieved by a simple combination of the four skills, but results from the interaction and coordination among the four skills. On the basis of some theories of physiology and psychology as well as principles of system theory, this paper analyzes the interrelationship among four language skills and finds that they have close and strong an impact upon one another. Then the paper inquires into the necessities and feasibility of improving overall English language skills of high school students by comprising four language skills in a more economic and effective way.

scholarly journals High School teachers' Experiences in classroom Ecology of Language Teaching: A Study from the Phenomenological Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-482
Author(s):  
Mani Ram Sharma
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
High School English ◽  
Classroom Ecology ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Ecology Of Language

The present study aims to look into ecological classroom practices adopted by teachers while teaching English language courses at colleges in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study specifically explains how three high school English teachers in the class felt about ecology of language teaching, how they experienced teaching, and how they provided meaning to it. Three high school English teachers’ experiences were recalled through an in-depth phenomenological interview. The results revealed that the need of classroom ecology was not emphasized. The teachers' experiences in the form of narratives, collected, transcribed, coded, thematic analyses and presented in the notion of  emerging themes that English language teaching helped to explore the effective classroom ecological practices in detail. The study is expected to contribute in making EFL teaching successful in linguistic landscapes of Nepal.

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