It's very important for a teacher to know his or her students in order to choose the best strategies for teaching them.

1. Getting to know our students

3.  Do you observe your students? When?
 Do you think it’s important for a teacher to
know certain things about his/ her students?
Why?
 How does knowing your students better may
affect your teaching?

4.  Read the article entitled: Children: How
They Grow, Elementary School Children –
Ages 9 to 12.
 Highlight the characteristics that are
common to your students
 Write a summery of it on a piece of writing
paper.
 State how knowing this may affect your
teaching. (Give Examples)

5.  Try a notebook of incidents
 Try adding important information about the
group in your lesson plan
 You may use a checklist of observable
behavior

6.  Positive feedback
 Praise your students
 Give emotional support
 Care about their weaknesses and problems
 Pygmalion effect

7.  Refers to the phenomenon in which the
greater the expectation placed upon people,
the better they perform.

8.  Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson
(1968/1992) report and discuss the
Pygmalion effect at length.
 In their study, they showed that if teachers
were led to expect enhanced performance
from some children, then the children indeed
show that enhancement.

9.  The purpose of the experiment was to
support the hypothesis that reality can be
influenced by the expectations of others.

11.  Do you remember a case in which you had a
labeled student?
 What was your attitude towards this student?
 Do you think applying the Pygmalion effect
with difficult students may help reach your
goals? How can you do that?
 Share your experience with other colleagues.