Home Archived Research corner Back Research corner 31st October 2014, 12:00am Tes Editorial Share Research corner https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/research-corner-66 Copy Link `Feeling and showing: A new conceptualization of dispositional teacher enthusiasm and its relation to students’ interest’ by Keller, M M, Goetz, T, Becker, E S et alLearning and Instruction, 33: 29-38, October 2014 (Elsevier)“Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic,” opined noted author and lecturer Dale Carnegie, who knew a thing or two about winning friends and influencing people. And, if a new research study is to be believed, act enthusiastic and your students will be enthusiastic as well.The paper, written by academics based in Germany, Switzerland and the US, defines enthusiasm as “teachers’ positive affect and positive emotional expressivity”.Some 75 teachers (of German, English, French and maths) in Switzerland participated in the research, along with 863 students. The aim was to test whether teacher enthusiasm was positively related to students’ interest in a subject, and whether this was affected by how enthusiastic the students perceived their teacher to be.The researchers found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the level of teacher enthusiasm positively predicted students’ interest, as well as their enjoyment of the subject and their perception of its value.However, before you gear yourself up to rhapsodise about an area of your subject that you’re not wild about, a word of caution. The authors found that faking enthusiasm had similar results to “emotional labour or experiences of emotional dissonance.both of which have detrimental effects on health and well-being”.Sarah CunnaneShare your views by tweeting @tesHot off the pressWhat Will I Be? by Richard Sinclair and Jon Lycett-Smith (Digital Leaf)ISBN 9781909428546The first in this series of colourful, rhyming books follows a father and son as they ponder the many professions the boy could pursue when he grows up. Will he be an astronaut? A politician? A pastry chef? An actor? The options are endless.Extreme: why some people thrive at the limits by Emma Barrett and Paul Martin (OUP)ISBN 9780199668588This book explores the psychology of people who place themselves in highly challenging situations - astronauts and extreme sportsmen and women, for instance. The authors examine what drives such people, what abilities they share and what skills and personality traits enable them to succeed. They also ask what lessons the rest of us can learn from their example.Zombies and Calculus by Colin Adams (Princeton University Press)ISBN 9780691161907Colin Adams’ adventure novel outlines how maths could save your life in a zombie invasion. It covers everything from predator-prey models and pursuit problems to the physics of combat and how to take advantage of the fact that the zombies always point their tangent vector towards their target.For book queries, please email chloe.darracott-cankovic@tesglobal.com Want to keep reading for free? Register with Tes and you can read two free articles every month plus you'll have access to our range of award-winning newsletters. Register Log in Keep reading for just £1 per month You've reached your limit of free articles this month. Subscribe for £1 per month for three months and get: Unlimited access to all Tes magazine content Exclusive subscriber-only stories Award-winning email newsletters Subscribe now Read more Weekly round-up: Capita loses Sats and GCSE fears Tes Editorial • 18th April 2024 Reception Baseline Assessment: what you need to know Gráinne Hallahan • 3rd April 2024 Weekly round-up: Teacher pay drop and school moves Tes Editorial • 28th March 2024 Weekly round-up: Teacher pay and staff shortages Tes Editorial • 21st March 2024 Recent Most read Most shared 3 steps to make sure your behaviour curriculum works Leadership 25 April 2024 How to ensure children are emotionally ready for school Teaching & Learning 25 April 2024 Heads: DfE failure to scrap Ofsted grades ‘deeply disappointing’ News 25 April 2024 A simple but radical new way to assess writing Teaching & Learning 22 April 2024 Fitness to teach cases in Scotland hit 10-year high News 23 April 2024 5 basic errors that ruin teacher job applications Analysis 23 April 2024 Poor mental health ‘fuelling’ absence crisis, DfE told News 24 April 2024 Why every school should (not) use setting Teaching & Learning 24 April 2024 Cut summer break ‘to rescue Covid generation GCSEs’ News 24 April 2024
