Grit: The Alpha & The Omega start and end your class with purpose
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How do we create grit in our own classrooms? Discuss at your table.
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- Set the tone for success from the very first day of the year, month, week, and class.
- Express encouragement and expectations.
- Make it relevant.
- Develop intentional habits.
- Practice, practice, practice.
“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
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GHS Non-negotiable for Building Grit: Work from Bell to Bell!
+ +Do Now+ +
Group conversation: How does a "Do Now" create grit in a learning environment?
Group activity: List as many ideas as possible to start class with purpose and relevance.
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<----------Keys points for a "Do Now"---------->
- Provides transition from hallway to classroom
- Provides time for teacher to tend to necessary tasks while creating positive learning time for students
- Provides time to assess prior learning
- Provides a “hook” to the objective of the day
- Provides a “get ready to learn” attitude for studentsKISS. Keep it short and simple.
- Be consistent. Post your daily bell ringer in the same place in the classroom.
- Decide on a simple grading system.
- Be prepared by keeping back-ups of other bell ringers.
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+ +Debrief/Closure+ +
Group conversation: Honestly! What does the end of your class look like? Is it purposeful or by happenstance? Is there any merit in debriefing/exit ticket?
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<----------Key Points for Debrief/Closure---------->
- Closure keeps the “big picture’ in view.
- Closure ensures that the objectives have been met.
- Closure is an act of the students NOT the teacher.
- Closure refocuses the students’ attention on the activity and allows them to recognize what they have learned. It identifies the effectiveness of learning NOT of instruction.
- Closure provides the opportunity for both teacher and students to clarify, elucidate, explain, or question the ideas defined in the objectives and the material encompassed in the instruction.
"Closing time. every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. yeah." -Semisonic
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