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Winter Break provides an opportunity to reflect and regroup for the upcoming semester.
Making sure that students & their families are invested in student achievement will propel your classroom forward.
It’s NEVER too late to try new things in your classroom, even if students show initial resistance.
As teachers, we get better by reflecting on what we can do better.
Ultimately, teachers are responsible for the student progress made in their classrooms.
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Develop students understanding that they can achieve by working hard
Effectively uses a variety of student-centered strategies (based on an understanding of students and depending on the situation) to reach a range of students to convey that students can achieve by working hard
Regularly conveys messages and employs a series of integrated classroom strategies.
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Lessons on Malleable Intelligence (available in TAL book and on tfanet.org—there’s an excellent one from my SD)
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Public Tracking Charts for Reading Growth and Content Mastery
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Consistent Use of Messaging that Hard Work Leads to Achievement
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Updating your student work walls
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Using mistakes as opportunities to learn—build persistence in your kids through wait time and not giving up on a kid who is struggling to get the right answer
Student-Teacher conferences to review progress
Using bar graphs to show class averages for assessments
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Effectively uses a variety of student-centered strategies (based on an understanding of students and depending on the situation) to reach a range of students to convey that students benefit from academic achievement
Employs a series of integrated classroom strategies regularly
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Telling and showing students that they will have more choices in life if they go to college
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Market High School Choice to Your Students
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Explicitly teach lessons on the achievement gap
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Use role models to reinforce persistence and academic success
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Explain how component lessons lead to the Big Goal
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Classroom Competitions
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Allow students to make up assignments Provide student choice in
demonstrating mastery toward the Big Goal
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Ensures that role model conveys message of persistence and academic success
Enables students to gain frequent exposure to the role model
Appropriate Role Models: Fictional characters (Clyde in “Trombones and Colleges”), celebrities (Andrew Johnson didn’t learn to read until he was 17), people from the community and, best of all, students themselves
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These cards hold student responses to these questions: 1.What is a role model?2.How are you a role model for your classmates?
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Ask students to nominate a role model on the role model nomination form. Students list three reasons that this is a worthy role model and include a picture.
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Chooses a variety of appealing reinforcements to reach a range of students, based on an understanding of students and depending on the situation
Reinforcement system recognizes significant academic effort and mastery of a well-defined absolute bar
Provides reinforcements appropriately and flexibly so that they are delivered at purposeful intervals, and almost always conveys the meaning of the reinforcement as a celebrations toward progress toward the goal to maximize impact and lead to intrinsic motivation
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Publicly recognize achievement toward the goal
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Student achievement tracking charts—again!
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Recognize student efforts on a regular basis Students get stamps for
doing the right thing, and get small prizes at the end of the week based on the number of stickers.
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Host award ceremonies Lavish the students with teacher praise Encourage student praise Make positive phone calls home Recognize students on posters—
mastery at an absolute level, student growth
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Uses multiple methods and occasions to mobilize students’ chief influencers (e.g. parents, guardians, other relatives, coach, pastor, etc.)
Shares knowledge and skills on how the influencer and the teacher can accelerate the student’s progress
Shares positive news of student performance on a relative scale
Successfully involves students’ key influencers
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new year letter/expectations check-in/”fresh start” phone call home Friday folders (quizzes to be signed, etc) homework calendars phone calls with “just the facts” (grades,
missing assignments) phone calls home for positive recognition:
student of the week, high test scores, improved test scores, etc.
newsletters inviting parents to the classroom
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Periodically chooses strategies that would solve the key problems and root causes in the classroom, and that builds upon the CM’s and the classroom’s strengths
Creates action plan that is feasible for this CM to implement independently
Implements the plan wholeheartedly
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15 minutes for self-reflection Identify one thing that you need to
improve upon as a teacher. What is one thing that you could be doing better? Is it creating assessments, executing lessons, prioritizing planning, using data to inform instruction, classroom management? Think boldly about your own challenges, and what you will do to improve as a teacher.
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Conveys messages applicable to student subgroups (e.g., respect and appreciation for diversity in the classroom)
Effectively implements a variety of strategies and policies to lead students to support the welcoming environment
Proactively teaches a variety of successful lessons on values that will support a welcoming environment for all students, and capitalizes on teachable moments
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Recognize students for their kindness
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Give students the tools to be kind to each other
Students had post-it notes on which they wrote sweet things to their peers to post here.
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Message how to be a good person
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Explicitly teach character and diversity
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Make the students want to be in your room
Welcoming space with decorations.
Birthday sticker.