You are welcome to use these materials, subject to Creative Commons licensing, which requires you to cite us if you communicate or share anything related to them. Suggested contact: Matt Easterbrook, m.j.easterbrook@sussex.ac.uk, RATED, University of Sussex, UK.
Classroom interaction rubric and training materials
This classroom interaction rubric aims to raise our awareness of how we interact with different students.
Based on evidence that stereotypes can influence our expectations of other people, and so change how we interact with them, we – a group of teachers and researchers – co-designed this rubric and the accompanying training materials to be self-reflection and development tools for teachers. They are designed for teachers to use either alone or with a mentor to investigate their own behaviours and interactions towards certain students.
The training materials provide an overview of research into how stereotypes are formed, how stereotypes can lead to biases in our behaviours and interactions, and how we can reduce those biases. The rubric is a self-directed tool that aims to shift our attention towards how we interact with different students, so that we can identify important differences and work towards reducing them.
The rubric was developed by RATED (Research-informed Approaches to Tackling Educational Disadvantage: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/projects/rated/), a consortium of teachers, psychologists, and educational researchers. The work was supported by funding from the University of Sussex awarded to Matt Easterbrook.
