2015 back to-school night (final)
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Back-to-School Night
Back-to-School Night2015
Helping Hawks Soar
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S = StudentsM = MasteringA = All theR = RightT = Things
About the Classroom
Assessment and Grading
Procedures
Daily Schedule
When a child walks into a classroom, it should be a place of high expectations and high performance. - President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 25, 2011
The Marshmallow Test(the importance of delaying gratification)Source: Walter Mischel and colleagues, Stanford and Columbia Universities
The Benefits:Children who had waited for the second marshmallow generally fared better in life.Mischel found that teenagers who had waited longer for the marshmallows as preschoolers were more likely to score higher on the SAT, and their parents were more likely to rate them as having a greater ability to plan, handle stress, respond to reason, exhibit self-control in frustrating situations and concentrate without becoming distracted (APA).30 years later, those who had waited for the second marshmallow had a lower body mass index.Amazingly, the subjects willpower differences had largely held up over four decades. In general, children who were less successful at resisting the marshmallow all those years ago performed more poorly on the self-control task as adults (APA).
Sources: Walter Mischel, The Marshmallow Test (2014); Americal Psychological Association, Delaying Gratification (2012); What the Marshmallow Test Really Teaches About Self-Control (The Atlantic, 2014).
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