Dr. Karen L. Bierman, the Director of the PennState Child Study Center and Professor of Psychology, believed that a teacher needs to be "invisible hand" in the classroom.
Students who do not have disadvantages are more inclined to participate as they feel more like they belong and have a higher belief in their academic abilities.
Teachers are able to help students feel included by assigning groups and rearranging the seating chart so less cliques are formed in the classroom.
Mara W. Allodi, Department of Special Education, Stockholm University's article The Meaning of Social Climate of Learning Environments: Some Reasons Why We Do Not Care Enough About It, discusses the idea that social competence is as important to learning as the curriculum.
Teaching has become more bureaucratic in the distribution of curriculum, its organization, and the system has turned it into more of a competition for high grades and less about human emotion.