With half the school year over it’s a good time to reflect on how things are progressing with our students. Engagement is the key factor for minimising behavioural outbursts. I was reminded of the need for a bit of levity and power sharing in the student-teacher relationship with these findings on communication style.
The young teacher, inexperienced and wanting to be liked by her students, has difficulty setting boundaries and engaging her pupils in the curriculum. Effective teacher
Teacher quality is one factor in education over which schools have influence whereas student factors and socio economic conditions are largely immutable. John Hattie,
