Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Pygmalion in the Classroom: A Real Experience
Pygmalion in the Classroom: A Real Experience
Pygmalion in the Classroom: A Real Experience
Ebook77 pages1 hour

Pygmalion in the Classroom: A Real Experience

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

“Imagine for a moment that the inclusive school is an IKEA piece of furniture with a very complex design and with many beautiful, but difficult to execute, details: almost certainly we won't even think of using the first tool we have at hand to assemble it; we will have to study each piece well and each step of the assembly process in order to be able to choose the most suitable tool at each moment. Well, those many and diverse beautiful and complex details are our students and we are going to have to study them, understand them and, finally, find for each one the most appropriate way to act in order to get the best out of them and facilitate their full development through education.”

Halfway between a journal and an essay, this publication is the result of the author's desire to share a real experience lived in a public school located in a humble neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain, during the period of her internship as a primary school teacher. Here she tells us how it was possible to achieve a sort of small miracle, thanks to the teamwork of several professionals, who, for different reasons, collaborated in order to open the doors of knowledge to a group of students especially disadvantaged and unmotivated.

The described facts and circumstances were the perfect excuse to test one of the most effective psychological theories when it comes to improving the performance of students of any school level: the Pygmalion effect, also known as self-fulfilling prophecy; in both cases we are talking about the communication of high expectations. Rosenthal and Jacobson were the first scientists to study and experience them in the educational field; after them, many other psychologists dedicated their efforts to identifying the main features of the interaction between teacher and student which most influence the school results of the latter. The result was the classification of specific teaching behaviours that convey these high expectations.

However, it was also discovered that teachers did not always put this behaviour into practice with each and every one of their students, especially with those who are perceived as low-performance students. In order to avoid this problem as much as possible, there are very effective techniques, easy to apply to our daily classroom practice, which enable high expectations to be communicated indistinctly to all students. Indeed, some of them were the ones that were put into practice to achieve the overwhelming results told in this book, demonstrating once again the power that the teacher's attitude has over their students’ performance.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMiss Lucy
Release dateJun 6, 2020
ISBN9780463440896
Pygmalion in the Classroom: A Real Experience
Author

Miss Lucy

¡Hola! Soy Lucy, maestra titulada en educación Primaria por la Universidad Camilo José Cela desde febrero de 2018 y con una larga trayectoria (12 años) en la enseñanza del inglés exclusivamente a niños, a partir de los 4 años.Mi natural curiosidad para los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de los alumnos más jóvenes es lo que me impulsa cada día a buscar las mejores formas de hacerles llegar el inglés y cualquier otra asignatura les esté impartiendo.Captar su interés para generar curiosidad y 'ganas' de ir a clase es el primer paso para obtener su atención y conseguir que aprendan de forma natural y casi sin esfuerzo. Sin embargo este proceso no sería posible sin 2 elementos que yo considero básicos en cualquier relación docente - alumno: los refuerzos positivos y la comunicación activa de las altas expectativas.Todo esto, reflejado en mi experiencia diaria y respaldado por la investigación científica sobre Educación, como pude averiguar en mis estudios universitarios, lo pueden encontrar en mis escritos.¡Buena lectura!Hi! I'm Lucy, a qualified primary school teacher since February 2018, who studied at the Universidad Camilo José Cela and who has a long history (12 years) of teaching English exclusively to children, from the age of 4.My natural curiosity for the teaching and learning processes of the youngest students is what drives me every day to look for the best ways to make English and any other subject accessible to them.Engaging children's interest in order to awaken their natural curiosity and 'desire' to go to class is the first step in order to get their attention and get them to learn naturally and almost effortlessly. However, this process would not be possible without 2 elements that I consider basic in any teacher-student relationship: positive reinforcement and active communication of high expectations.All this, reflected in my daily experience and supported by scientific research on Education, as I was able to find out in my university studies, can be found in my writings.Good reading!

Related to Pygmalion in the Classroom

Related ebooks

Teaching Methods & Materials For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for Pygmalion in the Classroom

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    Pygmalion in the Classroom - Miss Lucy

    cbook_preview_excerpt.html}Xrfv\*UqH%ɩlA$1 46w |$\RF"8܋JQ1 unoax~w~Kqi޽1~HR_髿;,ߢz6ԫ˴aALeL]4~V )͗>>\U t4;˲,}4k \))UIv4Qi5[)QSpm_5|}Ƒ5vNicT68z31~}oXaYhU6`tjăDnVw^Uɯhu=d;ZE%fLkQ[59]t2ftG=fubpD?=ۤ4_ K:$5/MT۸Ѷ6XƋTD=ɡ焢mr8Q$[҂\}58&Ec6a3^wF5/Y#z>ba2l!fq:D'15LU`Pqq^!U=`y㟣 $RϫGqāqIG m̥ـ8drBv}M˭U_Ķ/&pQoh%7p{0 b]Q&gcBx!K |:y:UGI;^gZo)RBk l}3s&NwTA/0 8pvW pDB-\p ǹV4Hrr"ܩ\/*%[vT#.UqiCP tY qgd°"6%3E?V"Gpe%Yޢ6%(%x`uJN&{D+t>@6iF`K`Z׌-`G FAM2]Gfi'$TE)z7:>6faw|5/tZ"B |vpݐAQ$P2_H_dA]0K_tn"S:/ !J[ 6e+m 1Rq@%^5饔 S@[ pEԅJX3Yޜ5jÜP=*X0+3E+N֜UGe.%Lf /v*UP#xW8m:zm\ek`!-'1 }t1%kW'kVZDbx}eC+y{ Oc6F/ԓoF $KWCK$ o&,:qHD"z3 ._ʳ-=h#;:aoN#~(}H9$i(C`3#霜"sOQ+Ur 5q:wyMٻe[; 2ڴHubu\|G(@ba9W4nsi>gS>G1ٟB彇7z_~\y"RŋBs# ,^P^˷-7"I۱'N'd~t$P.$ 0do%D-_YFBvb &>b'eqVc`W iAy{1z$y%Fcot2*_ tF`naO͞?@#i1y3 f4˯':A=ߜqsQ@d4l?Br"e9JJYGīF:_[3_"tFv(4xh#.J) Һh;J[9i0?4U%|]IL`=ryS弈M&)(?[mr,x\U+
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1