{"id":5446,"date":"2018-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/learner-centered-tip-of-the-week-yes-they-can\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:33:46","slug":"learner-centered-tip-of-the-week-yes-they-can","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/learner-centered-tip-of-the-week-yes-they-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Learner-Centered Tip of the Week: Yes They Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This post originally appeared at the Learner Centered Practices Blog<\/a>\u00a0on April 30, 2018. Belolan is the instructional coach for RSU2 in Maine.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you remember hearing, perhaps back in your teacher prep program, about the study where a teacher was given a group of Special Ed students but was told that they were Gifted and Talented students, and then the learners performed at the same level as the Gifted and Talented learners would? Well, it is a thing. And it is real.<\/p>\n

The Pygmalion Effect, also called the Expectancy Effect or the Rosenthall Effect, is when one’s expectations about another’s performance or ability impacts their actual performance. Here are two videos about it.<\/p>\n