The Teacher Credibility Codebook: Research-Based Tools for Improving Student Perception, Motivation, and Buy-In [Hardcover]

How can you build a classroom environment that creates buy-in from students? Richard Young shows how teacher credibility goes beyond building relationships. He offers a practical framework centered on student perception, engagement, motivation, trust, and communication, resulting in improved learning outcomes.

How can you build a classroom environment that creates buy-in from students? Richard Young shows how teacher credibility goes beyond building relationships. He offers a practical framework centered on student perception, engagement, motivation, trust, and communication, resulting in improved learning outcomes.

With compelling visuals throughout, Young offers insights into how student motivation and social dynamics shape their perceptions. He also explains the nuances behind student inferences, social contagion, and cognitive alignment, so that you can learn how to proactively address misinterpretations, reinforce credibility, promote positive student perceptions, and create a more connected, cooperative learning environment. Each chapter offers actionable strategies and research-based tools to help you implement the ideas.

Teachers at the middle and high school levels, where social dynamics and student misperceptions frequently impact learning environments, will particularly benefit from the unique and effective ideas in this book.

Part 1: How Students Interpret You  1. Simplifying the Complexity of Your Classroom  2. How Students Think about You and Why It Matters  3. Student Perception: Whats Real and Whats Not  4. Peer Influence and Social Contagion in Your Classroom  5. Echo Chambers and Tribalism in Your Classroom  6. Why Your Credibility Is So Critical?  Part 2: Beyond Contagion: Making Sense of Group Perceptions in Your Classroom&nbsl£²