When you go to class do you think that students should have more stress than they need? Discussing how added stereotypes and expectations can affect students in classrooms, is the best way to solve the problem. Students grades and test scores have been shown to reflect negative influence from their peers. All types of classification and Bullying in schools needs to stop so students of all types can reach their full potential.
“It has long been known that stereotypes—the pictures in the head that simplify our thinking about other people—produce expectations about what people are like and how they will behave.” (Joshua Aronson)
These expectations can paint a positive picture or negative. Positive expectations can lead students to do great things, but negative expectations do the opposite. Let’s say that no one expected you to add up to anything, would you try to exceed their
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And when the brain is developing these people have a huge impacts on a young person’s behaviour. Stereotyping can be blamed on just the student, we need to extend our gaze to look at what causes them to do so. A role model is good in the development of students. But role models can negatively affect behaviour if they are doing bad things. Sometimes problems in schools extend past school life as proved studies show.
Joshua Aronson says that “The test score gap between black and white children is very small when they are young, but widens as they spend more time in school.” He believes that this is due to the effect of judgement as kids get older, when kids are younger they play with everyone. But as students ideals change they often stop playing with kids they think are a way that they shouldn’t be. If a student feels different than others they can feel left out in extra activities. Studies show that this stress factor changes students willingness to learn and their