Educational Psychology: Teacher-Student Rapport in the Secondary Music Ensemble Sebastian Adams Colorado State University - Graduate Student Showcase - Lory Student Center - November 9th, 2017 Problem Statement Data Project Concept Discussions in music education about the instrumental 82.35% of analyzed literature is Improved Positive Teacher director’s role suggest that traditional teacher-centric Rapport Student informed by educational psychology. Dispositions practice can hinder students’ comprehensive with Students Outcomes development as artists. Cultivating teacher dispositions Behaviorism that build teacher-student rapport in the music classroom Cognitivism Literature Review Constructivism is a possible solution; however, connections between such dispositions and principles of educational psychology Rapport Humanism have yet to emerge. Education Other Contexts Etymology Need for the Study Rapport in the classroom is the quality of relationship Arguments informed by seminal work may more likely be between teacher and student characterized by communication and mutual, emotional understanding. Research Questions Answered considered for education policy. An analysis of the 1. How can human learning principles of educational psychology literature will reveal how rapport-building teacher guide the practice of building rapport with students? behaviors are informed by the principles of educational Educational Psychologists ● Methods such as the ZPD, Care Ethics, and Scaffolding can inform communication and emotion psychology. Implications of results can guide policy in dispositions of teachers. education and can recommend best practice in teaching Behaviorists Cognitivists 2. How might this information influence the role and John Watson (1878-1958) Jerome Bruner (1915-2016) dispositions of secondary instrumental music educators? instrumental music. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) Albert Bandura (b. 1925) Arthur Staats (b. 1924) Robert Sternberg (b. 1949) Teacher shows: ● Immediacy through conducting and instruction. Constructivists Humanists ● Empathy through interactions with students. Methodology: Content Analysis John Dewey (1859-1952) Carl Rogers (1902-1987) Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) ● Leadership through facilitating student-centered Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Rollo May (1909-1994) Education practitioner articles and dissertations from 1986 to practice. 3. What structures in the instrumental music classroom might 2017 concerning rapport, communication, and emotion support teacher-student connections that foster student learning? dispositions were analyzed. ● Chamber music ensembles Teacher Dispositions ● Peer Assisted Learning Does the study reference a prominent psychologist of one of the Sets of values, attitudes, and beliefs that ● Culturally responsive and relevant repertoire ● 4 schools? (Binary: yes = 0, no = 1) impact teaching behavior and practice. Democratic large ensemble rehearsal If yes, what school(s)?