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This 5 page paper discusses some of the literature about teaching students who are at risk. Some research asserts that one factor that can help these youngsters is a positive teacher-student relationship. Another study reports a project that provided special tutors for middle school students. A third article reviews and synthesizes the factors involved in almost 200 studies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of school before high school graduation. This would include youngsters who have specific learning disabilities and physical or psychological handicaps. It also includes students who live in poverty or who
live neighborhoods and home environments that are less than supportive of going to school. Working with these youngsters is challenge to teachers, administrators and others in the school system.
Murray asserted that positive social relationships is one factor that can help students at risk (2002). This is especially true for students with disabilities: "As compared to youth without disabilities,
youth with high incidence disabilities are more likely to experience delinquency, behavioral and conduct problems, depression, and poor social skills" (Murray, 2002, p. 285). Adolescents with disabilities are at risk
of having significant difficulties in multiple areas, social, emotional, behavior and academic (Murray, 2002). Murray argued that positive teacher-student relationships can help these students cope with the myriad of
challenges they face as they move into adolescence (2002). The theory regarding positive social relationships is based on attachment theory and social learning theory, both of which suggest that adult-child
relationships that are nurturing, supportive, and warm with the adult actively involved can promote healthy social and emotional development (Murray, 2002). Research that has focused on the teacher-student relationship has
concluded that this kind of relationships provides a feeling of safety and security for the child or adolescent (Murray, 2002). Research has also shown that this kind of relationship
between teacher and student decreases behavioral problems and increases learning (Murray, 2002). Murray reports that researchers are only beginning to investigate the effects of positive teacher-student relationships on students who
have a high incidence of learning disabilities but what has been done is promising (Murray, 2002). Based on the little bit of literature available, Murray makes certain recommendations for teachers
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