Title: 5 Tips for Teaching Students How to Ask for Help | Edutopia
Headings: Teaching Students How to Ask for Help
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Students How to Ask for Help
By Jennifer Sullivan
July 18, 2019
5 Strategies for Improving Students’ Self-Advocacy Skills

Content: Can you identify one strategy you’ve been using that has helped you to be successful? Can you identify one strategy you want to try using more often? 2. Help students understand that teachers want to help: Asking students of any age why an adult would choose teaching as a career can be an eye-opening—and often humorous—activity. Have students pause and reflect in small groups about why they think Teacher X became a teacher. This is extra fun if Teacher X can visit your classroom to hear the brainstormed ideas. Guide students to the final answer: “ Teachers become teachers because they like to help.” I’ve used this exercise at the beginning of a year for relationship-building and to show students that I care about them and want to help them.