If you find one of your kids loves school while the other doesn’t, it may not actually just be down to their personality.
A study conducted by the London School of Economics, found that good teachers makes children happier and helps improve their results in the classroom.
Researchers involved in the study analysed 10,000 children in the Bristol area, who have been tracked since they were born in the early 1990s until they turned 21. They looked at maths results as well as wellbeing and behaviour.
The study showed that those who had the best teachers did 27% better in their maths tests than those who had teachers in the bottom 10%. Students with better teachers also scored 20% on measures such as feeling happy, having friends and concentrating.
"Teachers are important inputs in pupil maths test scores, but also pupil emotional health and pupil social behaviours. I also show that teacher ability to improve maths test scores is weakly associated with teacher ability to improve non-test score outcomes," study author Sarah Fleche explained.
"More generally, this study highlights the need to consider emotional health at school - both children's and teachers' emotional health - in addition to intellectual development. Yet, in many countries most of these objectives are still marginalised."
