which criteria do pupils use to perceive teachers as authentic or fake

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Pedro De Bruyckere – Tom Vermeylen

Which Criteria Do Young People Use to Perceive Teachers as Authentic or Fake?

Pedro De BruyckereArteveldehogeschool University College

Ghent / Belgium@thebandb

Whichone is the ‘real’ one?

School underpressure?

Authenticity

Many defenitionsin many different areas

So: Let’s take a pragmatic angle

Which criteria do youngpeopleuse to perceive a teacher as beingauthentic.

Methodology

In-depthinterviews

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Analyses

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Check with focus groups

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Extra check with experts

Results

The importance of knowledge

Unanymous over vocational, technical and broadeducation.

Passion!

Unique

Often mentioned as a bad example: teaching by the book without any alterations at all or adaptation to the specific public.

Every class needs to be perceived as unique, because each class is different, consisting of unique, different boys and girls.

A unique teacher stands out.

Distancevscloseness

Personalinformation, yes, but in smalldose.

The importance of the informal.

A teacher is not a friend…

…not even onFacebook.

The effect of a authentic teacher?

Knowledge, small effect.

Butpassion: “Teachersneed to bedirective, influential, caring, and activelyengaged in the passion of teaching in learning”. (Hattie, 2009)

And about the importance of perceivingeachpupil as unique: “Teachersneed to beaware of whateach and every student is thinking and knowing.” (Hattie, 2009)