It’s All About Relationships: Laying the Groundwork for Effective and Humanizing Classroom Cultures

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Abstract

Pushing against the standardized “one size fits all” approach to classroom management that research shows is prevalent across teacher education programs, a large private university in the northeastern United States adopted a different approach for both its traditional, on-campus teacher education program and its urban teacher residency. This study examined to what extent teacher candidates experience challenges regarding classroom management in working with students of differing cultural backgrounds during their practicum and what level of support teacher candidates perceive from their teacher education programs and mentor teachers and revealed that a strong focus on culturally sustaining pedagogy and relationship building is effective in supporting emerging teachers to feel comfortable and capable to establish productive classroom environments with diverse learners.

Authors

• Sabrina Leigh Caldwell, University of South Alabama

• Diana Turk, New York University

• Tom Adams, KW1C

• Kennedy Aquilino Tielman, Fontys University of Applied Sciences