The Effects of the Teacher's Behavior on Deaf Students' Perception of the Organizational Environment of the Classroom

One reason that adolescent deaf students behave in a classroom is that the classroom environment has been structured by the teacher in a way that students will choose to behave. In an observational study of the effects of the teaching behavior of both deaf and hearing teachers on deaf students' perception of the classroom environment, it was found that a positive class attitude was associated with moderate monitoring of the students, persistence with students who did not understand the task, and an overt and task-oriented reward structure. The results of the study are presented from a perspective of teaching as an integrated, complex phenomenon.