Title: 13 Ways to Set High Expectations in the Classroom in 2021
Headings: 13 Ways to Set High Expectations in the Classroom
13 Ways to Set High Expectations in the Classroom
Definition of High Expectations
How to set high Expectations for Students
1. Teach about Growth Mindsets
2. Focus on Effort, not Excellence
3. Ask Students to Try Again
4. Express Unconditional Positive Regard
5. Provide Difficult but Achievable Tasks
6. Identify Causes of Poor Quality Work
7. Be a Role Model
8. Only Praise Behaviors that are Praise-Worthy
9. Show your Expectations with Examples
10. Stop using Gimmicky Rewards as Incentives
11. Ask Open-Ended Questions
12. Give Detailed Feedback
13. Be Consistent
Final Thoughts: Why Raise your Expectations?
References and Further Reading

Content: How to set high Expectations for Students
Below are all 13 examples of how you can set your expectations high in the classroom – with explanations! 1. Teach about Growth Mindsets
Students need to believe that reward comes from effort. Too often, we fall into a slump of believing that success or failure is outside of our control. We blame other things, like that our tools were broken or our teacher doesn’t like us. Instead, we should be reinforcing to our students on a daily basis that they are capable of success if they put the effort in. The concept of ‘growth mindsets’ comes from Carol Dweck, who after years of research concluded: “We found that students’ mindsets—how they perceive their abilities—played a key role in their motivation and achievement, and we found that if we changed students’ mindsets, we could boost their achievement. More precisely, students who believed their intelligence could be developed (a growth mindset) outperformed those who believed their intelligence was fixed (a fixed mindset).” ( Dweck, 2015, p. 1)
I believe that the growth mindset does need to be coupled with appropriate teacher scaffolding.