Show concern for student's emotional and academic well-being
Actively developing positive relationships with all students.
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Use 5-10 min check-ins to regularly meet 1:1 with students to see how they are doing as individuals.
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Create opportunities for students to work in pairs and/or small groups to interview one another to learn more about their peers and interests.
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Have students complete student interest surveys or write in student dialogue journals to learn more about them as individuals.
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Create assignments for students to flexibly complete throughout the learning week based on their interests.
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Monitoring & responding to students’ learning needs.
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Provide students with reflection journals or a student blog to share their thoughts on their learning and/or learning environment.
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Involve students in the discussion when creating routines, procedures, norms by implementing a mini-lesson or drafting a class anchor chart.
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Analyze your data to identify trends (strengths and areas of growth) to formulate small groups of students.
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Offer flexibility in order of activities by providing students a checklist to work through.
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