Opportunity and Equity Inside Classrooms: Teacher-Child Relationships and Educational Success

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session aims to integrate findings across areas dealing with teaching within classrooms experiencing both increased diversity and a wide range of social and emotional issues in the classroom. Teacher­child relationships are one of the inherent features of school classrooms and present a primary arena for improving access to social and academic support for children from diverse cultural, social, ability backgrounds and socio-emotional experiences. Improving these supports and relationships may be one of the more sustainable avenues for increasing educational opportunity. Participants will leave with an understanding of the diverse range of research that addresses the role of teacher­child relationships and a broad­based discussion that helps integrate some of the findings across areas.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Eric Buhs, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Participants

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Katherine Schultz, University of Colorado Boulder

• Pamela L. Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

• Robert Pianta, University of Virginia