(adapted from How Learning Works by Susan Ambrose; summary of main points here)
- Practice wait time to give students time to think about and respond
- Kindly pull students aside to check in on how they are doing + how you can help
- Make uncertainty safe: ask open questions; embrace complexity rather than oversimplifying things
- Resist a single right answer: generate multiple approaches to a problem
- Foster a growth mindset by trying different strategies and encouraging effort + trying different strategies
- Reduce anonymity: learn students’ names; encourage them to learn yours
- Model inclusive language, behavior and attitudes: involve everybody, including withdrawn students
- Address tensions explicitly: if tensions exist among a group of between LA + student, talk about these
- Facilitate active listening: validate student responses + encourage others to do the same
- Examine your assumptions about students: become more aware of implicit biases and stereotypes