Author Question: What are the effects of the home environment on school achievement? What will be an ideal ... (Read 59 times)

asd123 · **on:** Jul 31, 2018

What are the effects of the home environment on school achievement?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Why might the difference between teacher and student backgrounds create a problem in classrooms with workingclass students?

What will be an ideal response?

harveenkau8139 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 31, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: Students' home and family environments, because they reflect social class, influence the probability of students' success in the traditional school. Home environment also promotes three sets of characteristics important to school achievement: knowledge and understandings, cognitive and verbal skills, and values and attitudes.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: Teachers with middle-class backgrounds may experience difficulties in understanding and motivating their disadvantaged students. Dialect and language background may make it difficult for middle-class or nonminority teachers to communicate effectively with low-income minority students.