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Wouldn’t life be great if everyone treated you with the respect you deserve? That would be wonderful, but we all know that’s not going to happen. The fact is, there are some people are who are arrogant and don’t really care about treating you with respect. If you have someone like that at work or at home, here are four things to keep in mind: Remove the buttons they’re pushing If you were Mr. Spock, of Star Trek fame, arrogant people wouldn’t disturb you. Even if that arrogant person insinuated you’re just stupid to have a certain opinion, you’d be just fine. If you were Spock, you’d simply raise an eyebrow and think, “Typical of humans—they’re incapable of being logical.” However, I’m not Mr. Spock and neither are you. That means we might have some “buttons” that arrogant people are so good at pushing. Ask yourself what your buttons might be and do the work to eliminate them. That’s easier said than done, but it is possible. Focus on what you can control—you You know you can’t control anyone else. (Yes, arrogant people can change, but I wouldn’t bet on it.) What you can focus on is you’re the one […]
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Kids need to know what they are expected to do in the classroom, and they need to know why they are doing it. When I first began teaching, I didn’t really understand this. I would just do stuff with my kids, and not really talk to them about it beforehand. And I didn’t always explain why something was important. However, I figured out pretty fast that I needed to make a change. 🙂 Now I understand that when my kids know beforehand what they’re going to be doing and why it’s important, their behavior improves, and they’re more successful with the learning task. Think about it this way: Imagine that your principal randomly announces a meeting. On Friday afternoon. Before a holiday break. You just want to go home, right?! And even worse, your principal doesn’t tell you what the meeting is about. The focus isn’t even clear after the meeting starts. And when the meeting ends, you aren’t sure why it was necessary. That would be frustrating, right? Well, that’s what can happen when we don’t tell our students what learning activities we have planned for them and why those learning activities are important. In this post, I’ll share some simple strategies for communicating the “what” and “why” of our instructional activities on a daily basis. Since I’m a literacy specialist, I’ll refer mainly to literacy instruction. But you can apply these ideas to any subject area! Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Strategy One: Conduct a Morning Meeting I read The Morning Meeting Book (Kriete and Davis) about 7 or 8 years ago. While I don’t remember a ton about the book, I do remember that it was instrumental in making morning meeting a daily part of our classroom routine. Morning meeting can include a variety of things. For me, it includes: Good morning song and greeting classmates Morning message Stretching A discussion of the day’s schedule and any special events Morning meeting is fabulous for a variety of reasons. But back to the main topic of this post: morning meeting is great for letting kids know what will be happening during the school day. I like to post the day’s schedule somewhere in the classroom, and we briefly discuss plans during our morning meeting. During morning meeting, I don’t go too far in depth about why we will be doing certain activities—it’s more about establishing the what at this point. Strategy Two: Post Schedules, Goals, and Visuals Morning meeting is just the tip of the iceberg—I still need to consistently communicate the what and why to students as we move through different instructional activities in our day. Before we start an activity, I try to preface it by saying something like, “Now we are going to do some partner reading. Since you’ll be rereading books you already know, this activity will help build your reading fluency.” (Assuming that the kids are already quite familiar with the concept of fluency.) If it’s an activity that we’ve been doing for a while, I try to ask students to explain what our goal is and why we are doing a particular activity (without my help). Notice that I said “try.” Even though I’ve been doing this for a while, it’s a constant challenge to make time for it—and actually remember to do it! It’s SO easy to get swept up in a hectic day and forget to communicate these concepts to students. So if you struggle with this, I’m right there with you. But it definitely does get easier once you’re in a routine. And speaking of routines, here are some ways to help yourself and your students consistently return to the what and why throughout your day: #1: Post the standard(s) you’re working on. Many of us are required to do this by our schools, or for our evaluations. Just posting the standards themselves isn’t all that useful to students. So I like to put them in kid-friendly “I Can” terms, and I like to use these posters because they have a visual representation of each standard: We also have to remember to discuss the standard(s) with students as we address them throughout the day. Example: “Today we are working on ______. This will help us _______. Let’s read the ‘I can’ statement together to remind us of our goal: _______.” Having the standards posted in this way can remind us to discuss them and can give our students a visual reminder of what they are working on! To see the posters I use for this purpose, click HERE (I have them for K-3). #2: Provide more specific visuals tied to specific instructional activities. Sometimes standards can feel too general. We may be working on one particular part of a standard, or a skill that will allow students to eventually achieve the standard. So I like to provide even more specific visuals. This is an example of a visual I use during guided reading or small group instruction. I can put this right on the table and visually reinforce what we’re working on. It helps the kids remember to use the strategy as they read too! And the nice thing about this particular stand is that it has multiple sleeves. I can load it up with different strategy visuals and just flip, flip, flip as the day progresses! The visuals can be found in my guided reading packs, HERE (they are also in my reading workshop toolkits) and the stand-up chart can be found HERE. I think using these types of tools is even more important for students who struggle academically or with behavior. Here’s a photo of what I’ve started to do recently with students in intervention: You can get an editable file to create your own cards like this by clicking HERE. (You will need to make a COPY of the file so that you can edit it. You can also download it as a PowerPoint template. And the font I used is KG Primary Penmanship, which you can get HERE – it’s free for personal use.) #3: Have a student helper remind you to use the resources suggested above. Honestly, I am quite forgetful. So I set myself up for success by
