Assignment 1

Assignment 1

Teachers with high sense of efficacy exhibit the opposite tendencies—adapting instruction to student characteristics and showing a high level of tolerance for a variety of student learning styles. In the classic explorations of successful inner-city schools, both (Lumsden, 2007) found that teachers (and administrators) in these schools demonstrated consistently high expectations for students in academic, social, and behavioral domains. Recently, there has been a concurrent move in inservice education programs to stress high expectations (e.g., Lumsden, 2007) and to urge teachers to increase their standards and expectations in the hope of raising student achievement.

A curious irony associated with ...