| Title |
Esplin, Stephanie_MED_2019 |
| Alternative Title |
A Self-Examintion of the Student-Teacher Relationship |
| Creator |
Esplin, Stephanie |
| Collection Name |
Master of Education |
| Description |
The student-teacher relationships are an important aspect of the culture of a classroom. How students and teachers engage with one another and what happens when there is a connection can assist in a student's learning and desire to succeed in school. In this study I researched the benefits of the student-teacher relationship by exploring how engagement from a teacher's and relationship building's perspective could manifest itself in a classroom setting. I used my own personal narrative regarding my time in a fourth-grade classroom, and the experiences I had to better understand the dynamics of the student-teacher relationship. After I completed my freewritten narrative on my classroom experience, I used NVivo to code the written reflection. Three categories emerged from the coding process: teacher observations, relationships, and social work observations. From these three categories four themes emerged: insight, authenticity, rapport, and security. Analysis of the data using NVivo software exposed the skill set that I had been using in my classroom to have more emotional attunement with my students. In this paper I discuss how engagement defined in different terms can aid in the student-teacher relationship, but more importantly, how those relationships appear in a classroom setting. |
| Subject |
Education--Evaluation; Teachers; Education--Study and teaching |
| Keywords |
Student-teacher relationship; Classroom culture; Learning; Desire to succeed |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Date |
2019 |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights. |
| Source |
University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6f05wy5 |
| Setname |
wsu_smt |
| ID |
96734 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6f05wy5 |
