Teacher Expectations

Teacher expectations refer to inferences that teachers make about the future academic achievement of students. The teacher creates the learning target and decides where the child should be at the end of the assignment, at the end of a unit, or at the end of a marking period. The teacher can therefore expect the students to reach a certain point in learning, only if the learning targets are clear to the students.

I believe that teachers who expect high achievement from their students will have better results than teachers who have low expectations because the students will feel motivated to meet the teacher's expectations as long as they aren't unreachable. All objective and goals must be explained and the students need to know how to assess their own work.