Welcome Back to School!
Doesn't the thought of an entire school year seem daunting and somewhat intimidating at times? And I'm thinking about teaching; just imagine how overwhelming our students feel!
Mary and I, in our soon-to-be-released book, Learning That Never Ends, provide some answers to succeeding in tasks that seem just too big to tackle.
Shrink the change! One way to motivate action is to make
students feel closer to the finish line than they might have thought.
According
to research, people find it more motivating to be partly finished with a longer
journey than to be at the starting gate of a shorter one. Shrinking the change
is a significant approach to help students make an initial commitment.
HOW TO SHRINK THE CHANGE
- Pre-teach
a challenging lesson with a study group
- Frontload concepts & vocabulary - there are so many ways to frontload concepts. (quotation mingle, greet and go, give one - get many, etc. - see book for more examples).
- Hold
an impromptu study session during class immediately before a test.
- Chunk
projects into doable parts and provide growth feedback so each student can
succeed before moving on
- Give
one or two questions from a test to do in a small group, then give out the
rest to do independently
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