My Teaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S): Improving Teacher-Student Interactions to Enhance Student Motivation and Achievement
Intervention Details
Subject
Non-Academic AreaAcademic Program
General EducationDuration
Full school yearGrades
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Personnel
General Education Teacher, Coach
Intervention Summary
My Teaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S) is a coaching program focused on improving teacher-student interactions in secondary classrooms to enhance student motivation and achievement. MTP-S uses the domains of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System-Secondary (CLASS-S) and integrates initial workshop-based training, an annotated video library, and a year of personalized coaching followed by a brief booster workshop. During the school year, teachers send in video recordings of class sessions, and trained teacher consultants review and select brief segments that illustrate either positive teacher interactions or areas for growth in one of the dimensions in the CLASS-S. This is followed by a 20-to 30-minute phone conference in which the consultant strategizes with the teacher about ways to enhance interactions using the CLASS-S system.
Grades
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Personnel
General Education Teacher, CoachStatistical Finding Summary
Positive effect on student achievement in the post-intervention year
No effect on student achievement in the intervention year
No interaction of intervention effectiveness with subject area
No evidence of differential intervention effectiveness for teachers who did or did not teach a different course in the second year of the intervention
No differences in the effectiveness of the intervention were observed across classrooms or teachers with different sociodemographic and structural characteristics.
Source
Amori, M., Anne, G., Janetta, L., Joseph, A. & Robert, P. (2011). An Interaction-Based Approach to Enhancing Secondary School Instruction and Student Achievement (ED556046). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED556046.pdf.
Data Sample by Population
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