The struggle I find myself in consists of extending their knowledge in reasonable levels without overwhelming, but maintaining high expectations that mirror what will be expected in college.
Overall, "it's about setting, meeting and maintaining high expectations," says Murphy.
This process can involve actively monitoring interactions with different types of students, implementing policies like name-blind grading and inter-rater grading to minimize the impact of bias, and maintaining high expectations for all students.
She invested in her relationships with us by being vulnerable and human, yet maintaining high expectations of us.
For instance, there is increasing evidence that maintaining high expectations for students with disabilities and providing them with opportunities to take classes alongside their typically developing peers is associated with higher rates of graduation for students with disabilities.
Schools and teachers can similarly work to implement well-established practices for increasing protective factors such as establishing caring relationships with students, maintaining high expectations for student performance, and providing students a variety of opportunities for participation and contribution in the classroom, school, and community [ 35].
As a creative school, with a track record in fantastic English results, we are often asked what our specific approach is: how do we teach through the arts yet manage to maintain such high expectations from all our pupils?
But prominent critics, such as Diane Ravitch, the historian and public-education advocate, have alleged that Success Academy essentially weeds out students, by maintaining unreasonably high expectations of behavior and academic achievement.
Other models, however, maintain that higher expectations per se are associated with better outcomes [ 6, 7], perhaps reflecting the influence of dispositional optimism [ 8] or a sort of placebo effect.
