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Headings: What Does It Mean To Have High Expectations For Your Students?
What Does It Mean To Have High Expectations For Your Students?
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How To Set High Expectations For Students
1. Convey Confidence In Your Students
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2. Give Opportunities To Contribute
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3. Give Specific Feedback
4. Provide High Levels Of Support
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5. Use The Goldilocks Principle
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Do you set high expectations for your students?
Do they respond?
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Content: Rosenthal and Jacobson referred to this as the Pygmalion Effect. Robert Marzano found that when we have high expectations of students we act differently. We call on them more often, wait longer for their answers, and give them more opportunities to succeed. For more on the Art and Science and a 4 – step process for high expectations for students, read here
Carol Dweck in her book, Mindset: How You Can Achieve Your Potential tells of a researcher by the name of Falko Rheinberg, who studied how students’ academic achievement and progress is influenced by the teachers’ mindset about intellectual ability. What he found was that when teachers believe that ability is fixed, the students end the year at the same level as when they began the year i.e. if students were in the bottom group at the beginning of the year, then they were in the bottom group at the end of the year. When teachers taught with a growth mindset, it didn’t matter where the students began, all students progressed and developed to a much higher degree. There was much more movement between ability groups as students learned and improved. It is more helpful to ask,
‘How can I teach these students this content?’ rather than
‘ Can I teach them?’