Christine Rubie-Davies
Christine Rubie-Davies is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland. She is the world leader on high expectation teaching and teachers who have high expectations for all students. Christine is interested in how teacher beliefs and practices increase or decrease expectation effects and primarily focuses on teacher expectation effects for disadvantaged groups, particularly Māori in New Zealand. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. Christine has been recognised as among the top 2% of education researchers globally by Stanford-Elsevier.
Keynote Address
Ensuring Success for Every Student:
High Expectation Teaching and Differentiation
The field of teacher expectations originated over five decades ago. High Expectation Teaching theory (HET) developed from these earlier studies and focuses on the concept that some teachers hold high expectations for all their students. When they do, students in their classes make large academic gains due to the teaching strategies they employ. HET encompasses three key principles: using mixed achievement and flexible forms of grouping, creating a positive class climate, and utilising goal setting to enhance student motivation and self-belief. The presenter will provide a brief background to the teacher expectation field. She will then introduce the three key principles of HET in depth alongside the research evidence that supports their usage in classrooms. She will also detail how teachers can achieve forms of differentiation among students while decreasing the salience of ability so that student self-belief is enhanced enabling all students to thrive. The presenter will show how HET readily translates into practical application in the classroom and will provide specific ideas that teachers can take away and to implement into their classrooms in order to increase student success.