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Are You working harder than your students?

Are You working harder than your students?. Mentor-Mentee Meeting 2-16-11. How Can you tell?. How do you know what is “hard work” for your students ? How do you know what is “hard work” for you ? How do you know if they are working harder than you?. Is this premise important?.

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Are You working harder than your students?

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  1. Are You working harder than your students? Mentor-Mentee Meeting 2-16-11

  2. How Can you tell? How do you know what is “hard work” for your students? How do you know what is “hard work” for you? How do you know if they are working harder than you?

  3. Is this premise important?

  4. Never work harder than your students & Other Principles of Great teachers • Author: Robyn R. Jackson • “I soon noticed that when a strategy was wildly successful, it had more to do with the fact that I honored a principle than the strategy itself…. As I began to pay attention to the principles rather than the strategies, I noticed a powerful shift in the way that I thought about teaching” (p. xii). Please discuss the author’s thoughts with a partner.

  5. Do you buy into this principle vs. strategy premise? Why or Why Not?

  6. Mastery principles • Start where students are. • Know where students are going. • Expect to get students to the goal. • Support students along the way • Use feedback to help everyone do better. • Focus on quality rather than quantity • Never work harder than students. Sound Familiar?

  7. Which principles are most important? • Most Important: Least Important: Why?

  8. Principle #7: Never work harder than your students • Please see handout. • 1. What is your work in the classroom? Your students’ work? • 2. What makes you uncomfortable about this premise? • 3. What work could your students be doing that they are not • doing already? • 4. How do you determine student work? Is it the same for • everyone?

  9. Your homework assignment • Why did you make a particular instructional decision this week/month? • What was the impact of that decision? • What was the single most important concept you wanted all students to know? • What was your assessment tool/check for understanding device? • How did you reflect upon the results? • What teaching skill(s)/principles were your best? Who worked harder?

  10. Instructional decision & impact • Please enter your information here.

  11. Single Concept & assessment • Please add information here.

  12. Teaching skills & reflection • Please enter your information here.

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