A case study of student and teacher relationships and the effect on student learning
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A CASE STUDY OF STUDENT AND TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE EFFECT
Suggestions for Future Research
As with any investigative undertaking, once you begin your research, other potential subjects to study begin to look interesting. The effort to remain focused on your initial research questions and keep your report streamlined require that you put these other ‘interests’ on the back burner for the time being. Stake (1995) writes that the most difficult task of the researcher is to “design good research that will direct the looking and thinking enough and not too much” (p. 15). Meyer & Turner (2002) recommend future research to find new frameworks exploring interpersonal relationships in classrooms that will 116 make future research findings more relevant to teachers and students. They write “comprehensive work that articulates how emotion, motivation, and cognition interact within classroom contexts is needed if understanding learning is to move forward” (p. 112). As I was investigating the relationships that this one particular elementary teacher created to support her students’ learning, I became interested in middle school teachers and high school teachers and what different approaches to building student relationships they used that would affect their learning environment. This would certainly be a consideration for future research as it could potentially identify additional strategies for increasing student learning through teacher- student interaction. Additional research using a larger group of teachers could be useful as a corroboratory source of further information. Further research on how teacher relationships with parents affect student learning could also provide valuable information for the field of education. This case study participant spent time building a relationship with her parents so they could be seen as ‘partners’ in the learning process. While it was a practice of this teacher, it was not the focus of study for my purposes. I do, however, believe it has potential for further 117 study as a possible resource for the teacher, as well as the student, in the learning process. Another suggestion for further research would be to study the practice of providing feedback as this seemed to have a role in the teacher-student interaction process during instruction. Perhaps a more narrow focus on exactly how often feedback needs to occur during the course of the instructional day in order to be effective and the quality of the feedback would be a worthwhile investigation. A recent study of improving teacher feedback during active learning was done by Van den Bergh, Ros, & Beijaard (2014) as they began investigating the use of feedback during teacher-student interaction that promotes students’ metacognition. They recommend further research to identify possible ways to improve feedback in the context of an active learning environment. Download 1.49 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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