The student-Teacher Relationships of Children Both with or Wihout Special Need in Preschool Classrooms.

The student-Teacher Relationships of Children Both with or Without Special Need in Preschool Classrooms.Children who have SECURE relationship with mother also forms SECURE & POSITIVE relationship with teachersRelationship with ADULTS: Develop skills to form relationship with peers, emotional development, self esteem & school adjustment.

Negative relationship with mother: Form insecurity, conflictual, dependent relationship with teachers.

Positive S-T relationship: Develop social competence & classroom adjustment

Negative S-T relationship:School avoidance Factors on Student-Teacher relationship:TeachersClassroomsParentStudentsFactor related to Teacher :Year of experience - Increased experienced was shown to be effective Self-efficacy and depression level -low teacher self-efficacy and high level of depression lead to negative student-teacher relationship.

Attitude towards life-positive towards live effect ST relationshipGender - is not an effective factor on ST relationship Field of teaching-graduates of primary school teaching , preschool teaching had more positive ST relationship.

Factor Related to ClassroomEffective way in student-teacher relationship:

Classroom management, peer relations and play material Factor related to Parent :Factors such as parents educational level and income were not found to be effective Factor related to Student :Gender -teacher tend to have closer and less conflictual relationships with girl.Ethnicity-closer, less conflictual and dependent relationships with their teacher.Temperament and problem behaviours -correlated with conflict student-teacher relationship

social behaviour -positive social behaviour increase close student-teacher

Examining the Student-Teacher Relationships of Children Both With & Without Special Needs in Preschool ClassroomDiscussionWith Special Needs (SN)Students with SN have more conflict but less closeness with their teachers.

They have more negative relationship with their teachers (Blacher et al., 2009; Eisenhower et al., 2007)

Impact of social skills and problem behaviours.Without Special Needs (SN)Depends on their social skills and behaviours.

Students with more problem behaviours have more conflicts with their teachers.

Students with better social skills have closer relationship with their teachers. Findings Problem behaviour.Social skills

Special needs students have more conflict and less closeness with their teachers.Argument Students with SN had less dependency with their teachers. (article)

Students with SN had more dependency on their teachers than their peers without SN (Blacher et al., 2009; Eisenhower et al., 2007)

Why?Cultural factors of research setting (Turkey)

Turkish teachers had closer, more dependent, and less conflictual relationships with students than American teachers (Beyazkurk & Kesner, 2005)

Turkish family structure and its nature Valuing characteristics such as family bond, dependency and obedience are dominant (Kagitcibasi, 1990)

Mother-child relationship affect the students-teacher relationship.

ContMainstream practices during preschoolTeachers characteristicTeachers knowledge and skills

Inadequate knowledge affects them on how they handle the problem behaviour of students with SN.

Teachers attitude about students with SNMost cases are positiveHowever, it can change due to some factorsIncreased level of impairmentHaving more experienceNot happy with their incomeHaving a special need student in classDo not have a teacher assistant in the classroom

It can affect how teachers relate to students with SN in the classroom.Problem BehaviorsA lot of studies show that problem behaviors are strong predicators of conflictual student-teacher relationship.PB is behaviors which prevent a student from effectively functioning in the classroom and endangers both their safety and their peers.Also seen as behaviors which negatively affect the learning of new skill, their use, and the social interaction of a student with their environment.PB + the ve impact = -ve STRS

Social SkillsSC is skill which is exhibited for interacting with others, differentiated in terms of setting and situation, and enable us to predict social results in certain environments.Individuals with sufficient social skills can:easily interact with individual among them.Obtain information from ind. among themLeave +ve impressionEasily form and maintain +ve relationshipHigh social acceptanceSC + +ve impact = +veSTRS

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