Insist that students persevere and do their best work
Indicator: Pressing for Rigorous Thinking
Indicator: Pressing for Rigorous Thinking
Setting high standards for thinking and reasoning.
Strategy Recommendation
Create extended thinking tasks and provide students with the choice to work collaboratively in pairs or independently.
Strategy Recommendation
Design a Choice Board in which all students complete a Depth Of Knowledge 4 task, but have a choice over which tasks they do first.
Indicator: Pressing for Quality Work
Indicator: Pressing for Quality Work
Setting high standards for student performance.
Strategy Recommendation
Select a system for students to set and track their own goals.
Strategy Recommendation
Differentiate content with appropriate scaffolds for small groups of students based on data. Provide students with roles within small groups.
Strategy Recommendation
Differentiate content with appropriate scaffolds for small groups of students based on data.
Strategy Recommendation
Create a playlist with different entry points that allow students to start where they need to.
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Indicator: Pressing for Persistence
Indicator: Pressing for Persistence
Requiring students to work hard and persist in their learning.
Strategy Recommendation
Plan a mini-lesson teaching the process of reflection and/or how to develop a growth-driven mindset.
Strategy Recommendation
Create a protocol for students to reflect on their learning within a lesson to support students in persisting when work gets hard. Encourage students to share their reflections in small groups.
Strategy Recommendation
Use 5-10 min check-ins to regularly meet 1:1 with students about how they are doing when facing difficult or challenging work.
Strategy Recommendation
Create a check-in structure for students to support them in choosing their learning path or pace and share prompts that encourage students to articulate the choices they make over their learning.
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Elementary + Secondary:
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