Periodically, Edutopia produces short, focused video clips about specific classroom strategies. In the fall of 2023, they compiled some of the best of these into a single helpful link! This amazing resource is sorted by grade level groups, making it a wonderful resource for your faculty.
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“Building our students’ sense of self-efficacy in schools matters more than ever as we dig out of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that has widened existing equity gaps.” (Gaskill, 2021).
This article explores the concept of “small wins,” and the big payoff that training teachers in this simple skill can have. This method of helping students learn to monitor their own progress not only empowers them to be active and accountable in their personal success, but also can encourage even the most reluctant learners to improve.
And that’s definitely a goal worth striving for!
A recent study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that middle-school students respond more to praise than criticism, especially when it comes to curbing problem behaviors.
By focusing on praising desired behaviors at least as much as reprimanding undesirable behaviors, teachers were able to improve overall class conduct by up to 70%.
In other words, this no-cost technique can result in significant improvement without any financial burden. That’s something all educational administrators should love!
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