'ME' Strategies
Change 'ME' First!
Change 'ME' First!
For every lesson do you think about the following:
For every lesson do you think about the following:
Do you ALWAYS for EVERY student...
- Grow Relationships - do you build relationships every day?
- Grab Attention - do you always use an attention grabber?
- Assess Background Knowledge - do you always assess background knowledge?
- Zone of Proximal Development (ZDP) - do you always teach with each child's ZDP in mind to increase expectancy for success?
- Student Interests - do you capitalize on student's interests?
- Link to Life - do you connect learning to life experiences?
- Collaborative Learning - do you offer and encourage collaborative learning?
- Varied Strategies - do you use various instructional strategies?
- Success Supports - do you use rubrics, formats, templates, and models?
- Choices - do you offer choices? They provide power and more engagement.
- Praise - find ways to create a growth mindset.
- 10 Minute Rule - do you honor the honor the 10 minute rule for engagement and activity?
- Respect - do you show respect to your students?