GENDER BASED LEARNING

1. TEACHER'S ATTITUDE:

Teacher attitudes are one of the major factors affecting student learning, additional
teacher training may improve not only teacher attitudes, but also student performance.

• The teacher conveys his/her attitude towards deaf/hard-of-hearing students on the

first day of class.
• The textbook usually doesn’t make sense until after the lecture.
• Teacher attitude! If it’s great, WOW; if it’s lousy students can’t learn.
• Teachers new to deaf/hard-of-hearing students can be nervous; but give us time
and we’ll earn your respect.
• Deaf/hard-of-hearing students have learned persistence will pay off later in life.
• Don’t use words like “this” and “that” as referents in the class or lab.
• Treat all students equally. Whenever a teachers mobile or a student mobile ring.

2. TEACHER EXPECTATION

Teacher expectations are, of course, a component of school wide expectations.

In addition, researchers have conducted numerous detailed examinations of the ways
teacher expectations are communicated to students in classroom settings and how
these messages influence student outcomes.

Q. How do teacher expectations affect student outcomes?

• Early in the school year, teachers form differential expectations for student
behavior and achievement.
• Consistent with these differential expectations, teachers behave differently toward
various students.
• This treatment tells students something about how they are expected to behave in
the classroom and perform on academic tasks.
• If the teacher treatment is consistent over time and if students do not actively
resist or change it, it will likely affect their self-concepts, achievement motivation,
levels of aspiration, classroom conduct, and interactions with the teacher.
• These effects generally will complement and reinforce the teacher's expectations,
so that students will come to conform to these expectations more than they might
have otherwise.
• Ultimately, this will affect student achievement and other outcomes. High-
expectation students will be led to achieve at or near their potential, but low
expectation students will not gain as much as they could have gained if taught
differently