According to Item B teachers expectations of pupils are based upon stereotypes about the pupils gender, ethnicity, and social class. However this is only a problem if pupils takes the label on, and continues to live up to the teachers expectations.
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Evidence suggests that they can “exert a powerful influence over pupils achievements.” Ray Rist did a study of a kindergarten. He found that the teacher looked into each individual children’s background and then placed them in separate groups dependant upon their social class. The middle-class children were labelled as ‘tigers’ they had a neat and clean appearance, and sat at the front of the classroom, where the teacher encouraged their learning, meanwhile the working-class children were grouped together at the back of the classroom  and labelled ‘clowns’ showing their lack of attention and naughty behaviour. In result of this they ...

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