The Warm Demander Chart

WARM DEMANDER CHART

"It's not about what you say that matters; it's how you say it."

The Warm demander

The Technocrat

The Sentimentalist

The Elitist

Explicit focus on building rapport and trust. Expresses warmth through non-verbal ways like smiling, touch, warm or firm tone of voice, and good natured teasing.

Has no explicit focus on building rapport. Doesn’t focus on developing relationships with students, but does show enthusiasm for the subject matter.

No explicit or implicit focus on building rapport or trust.

Explicit focus on building rapport and trust. Expresses warmth through verbal and nonverbal communication.

What Does This Look/Sound/Feel Like?

Bringing Culturally Responsive Teaching to the Classroom (Math Specific)

Technocrat

Warm Demander

Teaching through problem solving, leveraging inquiry Supportive words, acknowledge effort and build trust

Teaching through problem solving, leveraging inquiry (teacher loves math, but rapport-building is not a priority)

Productive struggle with high standards that is supported emotionally and intellectually.

Intellectually stimulating - focused on learning

"Keep your head up. I know you can do this because I've seen you do it before. Remember, I gotchu."

"Make sure to get your work done - I'm here if you need me"

Elitist

Technocrat

Chalk and talk No scaffolding or supporting struggling

Supportive words & touch to achknowledge effort and build trust. Lower expectations out of pitty; over-scaffolding

"I'll bet half of you will drop this class by the 3rd week." "I can't teach these low kids."

"My students can't handle those equations. I don't want to stress them out. I'm just happy they come to class."

Unsafe for students with a history of struggling to learn math easily.

A loose environment with simple learning that avoids challenge.

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More About The Elitist

• Keeps professional distance from students unlike himself.
• Unconsciously holds low expectations for dependent learners.
• Organizes instruction around independent learners and provides little scaffolding.
• Mistakes cultural differences of culturally and linguistically diverse students as intellectual deficits.
• Makes certain students feel pushed out of the intellectual life of the classroom.
• Allows dependent students to disengage from learning and engage in off-task behavior as long as not disruptive.
• Viewed by students as cold and uncaring.

More Qualities of a Warm Demander

• Shows personal regard for students by inquiring about important people and events in their lives.
• Earns the right to demand engagement and effort.
• Very competent with the technical side of instruction.
• Holds high standards and offers emotional support and instructional scaffolding to dependent learners for reaching the standards.
• Encourages productive struggle.
• Viewed by students as caring because of personal regard and "tough love" stance.

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• Holds high standards and expects students to meet them.

• Very competent with the technical side of instruction.

• Able to support independent learners better than dependent learners.

• Viewed by students as likeable even if distant because of teacher competence and enthusiasm for subject.

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More About the Sentimentalist

• Shows personal regard for students.
• Makes excuses for students’ lack of academic performance.
• Consciously holds lower expectations out of pity because of poverty or oppression. Tries to protect students from failure.
• Either over scaffolds instruction or dumbs down the curriculum.
• Doesn’t provide opportunities for students to engage in productive struggle.
• Allows students to engage in behavior that is not in their best interest.
• Liked by students but viewed as a push-over.