Teachers are subject to multiple stressors in their profession and often experience significant distress, which has been found to be linked with harsh and punitive behaviors. These behaviors have been found to influence students negatively, particularly those with vulnerable temperaments. Prior research has also found such negative teacher…

While education institutions and political leaders found student perception surveys suitable for evaluating teacher effectiveness, much of the literature failed to investigate how teacher attributes, such as personality traits, affected the construction of learning environment variables, such as classroom climate dimensions. In addition, much of…

Reflective students who are pro-active in thought processing in the classroom often do not receive the same level of positive appraisal from teachers. Many educators have been conditioned by universal norms to believe that to talk profusely during class time means to engage while to remain frequently quiet tends to denote a lack of engagement. The…