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How To Build Positive Relationships With StudentsRelationships are at the heart of all we do as teachers. Knowing how to build positive relationships with students is a cornerstone teaching skill. If you think back to the teachers you had who really influenced you in a positive way and had an impact on your learning you will probably not remember the content of what they taught you. What you will remember is the way they treated you, how you felt in their class and the types of interactions you had. Here are 13 great ways to build positive relationships with your students.

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28 Student-Centered Instructional StrategiesExecuted well, student-centered instructional methods can disarm some of the more intimidating parts of academia.

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Cultivating Student Learning Accountability — Psych Learning CurveToo often teachers confuse compliance with accountability. Simply following directions and formulaically obeying the plan of the lesson is not accountability. In fact, punishing students...

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6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Positive Math Attitudes | Parenting Tips & Advice | PBS KIDS for ParentsMath is everywhere, and everyone can be good at it! Use these six tips from Cyberchase to help your child develop positive attitudes toward math.

4 Ways to Help Your Students Develop a Growth Mindset in MathAccording to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, children with a positive attitude towards math in school were more likely to succeed in solving a math problem than those with a…

5 Powerful Ways to Help Kids Develop a Growth Mindset in Mathematics“I’m just not good at math. I’m not a math person. I wasn’t born with the math gene.” Unfortunately, as a math educator, these phrases are all too familiar to me. Kids go through school and life being bombarded with messages that imply some people are good at math and some people aren’t. How can you help kids develop a growth mindset in math? Here are some practical ideas to get you started.

Fostering Positive Attitudes in a Math Classroom | Study.comMany students today have a fear of math or they don't think that math is all that valuable. It is your job as their math teacher to help them see...

The power of believing that you can improveCarol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet? A great introduction to this influential field.

Creative ways to get kids to thrive in schoolTo get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write -- we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics she used to help struggling, sometimes disruptive students -- things like stopping for brain breaks, singing songs and even doing yoga poses -- all with her existing budget and resources. "Small changes make huge differences, and it's possible to start right now ... You simply need smarter ways to think about using what you have, where you have it," she says.

How we can help the "forgotten middle" reach their full potentialYou know the "forgotten middle": they're the students, coworkers and regular people who are often overlooked because they're seen as neither exceptional nor problematic. How can we empower them to reach their full potential? Sharing her work helping young people get to and through college, social activist Danielle R. Moss challenges us to think deeper about who deserves help and attention -- and shows us how to encourage those in the middle to dream big.

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