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Teacher Effectiveness With At-Risk Students In Alternative Education Settings, Natasha Conover
Teacher Effectiveness With At-Risk Students In Alternative Education Settings, Natasha Conover
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
At-risk youth come to school with a variety of challenges that sometimes lead to voluntary or involuntary disengagement from traditional high schools. Alternative education programs are an alternate placement for students who have disengaged from traditional high schools. Although researchers have shown that teacher and staff approaches to the overall educational experience of a student contribute to student success in alternative education programs, they have also highlighted that the lack of teacher-student relationships contributes to student disengagement. These findings may indicate that not all teachers are willing or able to connect with at-risk students. The purpose of this qualitative case …
Intrinsic Classroom Teacher Motivation, Mindi Hennefer
Intrinsic Classroom Teacher Motivation, Mindi Hennefer
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In the public education accountability movement, politicians and corporate reformers claim that student performance on standardized tests is an appropriate and reliable measure of a teacher's ability to educate. Given the process of holding K-12 classroom teachers directly accountable for individual student achievement based on standardized testing results, the teachers at XYZ Elementary School are currently motivated to change only through externally controlled factors or extrinsic motivation. The purpose of this research was to explore processes other than extrinsic motivation that motivate teachers to engage in strategies and methods that indirectly influence students to learn over the long term. The …