Meyer, M., Eckloff, T., van Quaquebeke, N. (2009) What students say - how teachers can win or loose respect.

In classes, distinguished by students respect for their teachers, students voluntarily and willingly follow teachers' instructions and explanations. Previous research reports that such a learning culture requires particular teacher behavior in three areas: lesson design, regulation, and person-orientation. However, the extant literature has not laid out the specific situations sensitive to respect building or loss of respect and, particularly, which kinds of teacher actions in these situations are prone to elicit or diminish the respect students feel for their teachers. In the present study, students were thus asked to report concrete critical incidences regarding situations in which their teachers have won or lost the

students’ respect. Eight -hundred-sixty-nine students participated. They were recruited from various types of schools, ranging from fifth to thirteenth grade. The diversity of the students' reports reflects the complexity of the daily endeavor of teaching. Most importantly, they give the reader the opportunity to reflect teacher behavior in the classroom from a student perspective. Among the issues discussed are mobbing, examinations and grading, examples of exceptionally successful lecture types, various types of self-fulfilling prophecies, and the experienced support during personal crises. ...pdf>>

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Moritz Meyer, design

Dr. Tilman Eckloff, project manager

This project has been supported by Stiftung Select für Zukunftsgestaltung als Teil der Deutsche StiftungsTrust.