Esplin, Stephanie_MED_2019

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
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s6f05wy5
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96734
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6f05wy5
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