Practice Fifteen
Practice 15: Educators teach on their feet, thus utilizing proximity.
They engage learners personally, hold high expectations of learners, and should not limit learners to grade level or perceived ability.
Implementation Basics | Practice Implementation Evaluation and Goal Setting
Life Principles, Expectations, and Quotes | Hand Sign for Practice
Practice Connections | Characteristics of Implementation with Online Resources
Research | Literature | Poetry | Vocabulary | Music & Video Links
General Resource Websites | Learning Strategies
“Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
IMPLEMENTATION BASICS
- Practice 15 Introduction - The 'WHY?', 'WHERE?', 'WHEN?', Benefits, Objections, and Responses
- Practice 15 Quick Implementation Guide - Purpose, Quotes, and Questions to evaluate implementation
- 17 Practices Implementation Evaluations - Individual single page evaluations for each of the 17 Practices suitable for use with goal setting
- Practice 15 Implementation Ideas - Practical application ideas and resources for all students experiencing success.
- Teaching Strategies to Help Students Succeed - article giving tips for boosting student success
- High Expectations - What To Look For - an article covering expectations and tips for time, participation, accountability, productive struggle, verbal and nonverbal messaging, and learning.
PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION, EVALUATION, AND GOAL SETTING
- Practice 15 Implementation Evaluation - This instrument may be used as an individual or building-wide evaluation of the implementation for Practice #15. Its use to establish goals for growth is encouraged. (printable document)
- 17 Practices Implementation Evaluations - Individual single page evaluations for each of the 17 Practices suitable for use with goal setting
- Complete set of Goal Setting Process Explanation, Forms and Examples for all grade levels - includes educator goal examples for the implementation for Practice 15.
Set of Goal posters - 6 designs
- Step-by-Step Forms for Setting Goals - Go step-by-step through the process using this selection of forms to meet specific age levels and needs.
- Lesson Plans for Introducing Choice and Goal Setting - 2 lesson plans with extensive resources for introducing choice and behavior/academic goal setting at all grade levels for use with discipline. Includes specific examples for the educational setting and 6 Powerpoints.
- Practice 15 Teacher Goal SettingExamples with the following goal: “My goal is to daily increase positive personal interactions with my students through the use of encouragement, proximity, and prompt feedback.”
LIFE PRINCIPLE, EXPECTATIONS, AND QUOTES
- Responsibility - Full Resources include literature lessons, quotes, poetry, music, videos, strategies, and other resources
- RESPONSIBILITY – Dictionary Link ; Spanish - Responsabilidad
- Compassion - Full Resources include literature lessons, quotes, poetry, music, videos, strategies, and other resources
- COMPASSION – Dictionary Link ; Spanish - compasión
- Life Principle Mind Map for the School Environment - a mind map applying any of the life principles in the school environment
- Life Principle Mind Map - general mind map for any life principle
- 4 Life Application Lessons for Life Principles- 4 lesson strategies for applying any life principle
- Eight Expectations: Resources include printable posters of Expectations, a printable quote, and sections for literature, vocabulary, music and videos, an introductory activity, a cooperative structure, sign language, self-reflection, celebrations, and a brain break. Each allows for selection of appropriate grade level material: Elementary, Middle, and High School.
- Expectation Two - We will not laugh at or make fun of a person’s mistakes nor use sarcasm or putdowns. - (printable poster) Multiple Resources including printables Please select your grade level for resources pertaining to this expectation
- Expectation Four - We will cheer each other to success. (printable poster) Multiple Resources including printables Please select your grade level for resources pertaining to this expectation
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uotes:Quotes about RESPONSIBILITY – Resource Sheet of quotes and links to printable posters
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”- Les Brown - Quotes about COMPASSION – Resource Sheet of quotes and links to printable posters
“I must do something'' always solves more problems than ‘Something must be done.’”- Author Unknown"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-- Maya Angelou
Additional Quotes:
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” Charles C. Noble
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Nothing can be done except little by little.” Charles Baudelaire
Hand Signs for Practice
(Click links to see brief video clips of hand signs)
- Practice - Make a palm down ‘A’ and move it backand forth across the left index finger.
- Fifteen - Begin with flat hand facing inwards, 4 fingers wiggle altogether with thumb out
- Sign language for Practice 15 vocabulary - includes skill, effort, and encourage
- Sign Language for 6 Question Stems - Add a nonverbal component using official sign language
- Hand Signs for Eight Expectations - Free Digital DownloadTask Cards - A PROACTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Practice Connections
Practice 15 Connections - list of other 17 Practices that are connected to Practice # 15
IMPLEMENTATION CHARACTERISTICS
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- Educators maintain personal contact with learners in an effort to meet individual needs and provide necessary direction and support.
- The environment is designed to provide mobility and to create a sense of safety and support.
- Quiz: Setting Up Your Classroom for Success - 12 question quiz on setting up a classroom. Edutopia, August, 2019
- 12 Best Classroom Layouts in 2019 (with diagrams and pros and cons) by Chris Drew, PhD. - helpful resource when planning to meet specific instructional goals.
- Benefits of Flexible Classroom, December, 2019 - - Offers reasons for a flexible classroom : Encouraging Collaboration and Communication, Fostering Ownership of Their Engagement, Boosting Confidence, and Increased movement.
- Classroom Management Tips Using Proximity - article giving strategies
- Ideas at the Door - Multiple strategies including printable posters for use throughout the educational environment
- Door Greeter Rhyme Sign - Door sign to invite visitors to knock and wait to be greeted.
- Neck Up Check Up Poster - a quick check on attitude4x4 Neck Up Check-Up
- Procedures - Includes procedures mind map, how-to-create tools, an index of procedure examples, quotes, literature, and other resources.
- Handbook of Procedure Examples - See Procedure for Greeting Visitors
- Procedure for Designating Time for Formal or Casual Speech Example
- Eight Proactive Classroom Management Tips - Edutopia article giving classroom management strategies to boost academic engagement and reduce disruptive behavior such as ‘Greeting kids at the door’
- Monitor by walking through the learning environment to assure learners you are available for support and to reduce off-task behaviors
- The First 2 to 6 MInutes of Class - 10 Ideas for beginning class
- Tips for Motivating Learners
- First Eight Days of School - Elementary
- Strategies for Use of the Magic Triad
- Character Resources - Tips for creating positive dialogue, quotes, poetry, and literature
- Preventive Discipline - Multiple strategies for establishing and supporting desired behaviors
- Strategies for Respect - Multiple strategies for creating a positive classroom environment
- Eight Ways to Build a Trusting Relationship
- Ways to Build Trust Mind Map
- Engage learners with proximity, eye-contact, voice tone, questioning strategies, and redirection dialogue such as a creed, quote, or expectation
- Creating Positive Dialogue by Redirecting with Quotes - Strategies for the use of Quotes including a variety of practical examples and printable quote posters.
- Hand and verbal skills for classroom management - strategies to use immediately to positively affect the classroom
- “The Tone of Voice” Author Unknown
- Different Voices Activity – May be used with “Tone of Voice” poem
- “I Don’t Think So!” strategy plus one more, “It’s all in the way you say it!” Great to demonstrate the importance of tone of voice, inflections, and body language
- Six Ways to Improve Communication - Tips and strategies for improving communication through feedback, quotes and more
- Questioning Resources
- Display personal memorabilia that promote your view of excellence and relationships (certificates, awards, hobbies, goals, successes)
- Storytelling - A Classroom Teaching Strategy - an article with ideas for using stories to personalize instruction.
- The environment is designed to provide mobility and to create a sense of safety and support.
- High Expectations - Design high-quality work through goal-setting and by teaching/ coaching in ways that challenge, motivate and support all learners in academic and social growth.
- Mind Map Template - Suggestion: Begin by using a mind map to define specific areas of social and/or academic growth appropriate for age and setting. This allows for focused effort on an achievable outcome.
- Goal Setting - Lesson Plans for Introducing Choice and Goal Setting - 2 lesson plans with extensive resources for introducing choice and behavior/academic goal setting at all grade levels for use with discipline. Includes specific examples for the educational setting and 6 Power points.Step-by-Step Forms for Setting Goals - Go step-by-step through the process using this selection of forms to meet specific age levels and needs.
- C.R.O.S.S.ROADS Choice Directory - The five step C.R.O.S.S. ROADS ™ Decision-making Process addresses discipline through: Teaching all learners how to make wise choices and consistently building a valuable life skill.
- High Expectations - What To Look For - an article covering expectations and tips for time, participation, accountability, productive struggle, verbal and nonverbal messaging, and learning.
- Motivation and Validation of Effort
- Tips for Motivation and Encouragement
- Praise/Encouragement - A comparison of the approach and impact of praise and encouragement
- Tips for Motivating Learners
- Leadership opportunities - List of options for leadership in the school environment
- How to Create an Easy Useful Classroom Job List - includes responsibility opportunities
- Classroom Jobs List - includes 40 Responsibility Opportunities with both school and real world titles
- Redirecting Behavior By Offering a Positive Challenge - A Classroom Example of how to redirect behavior in a positive manner
- Ten Ways to Honor Learners - Includes checklist, poem, quote, life principles, Expectations, and callback
- Free Ways to Recognize Effort - Poster
- Celebrations - 41 Celebrations
- Celebration Cards Set One (1-24) Digital download
- Celebration Cards Set Two (24-48) Digital download
- Offer Challenging Learning Experiences
- Cooperative Learning - 9 strategies
- Great Teamwork video - 1:16 min. - Short video demonstrating teamwork. Follow with discussion/writing about what characteristics had to be in place to accomplish the end result.
- Good Teamwork and Bad Teamwork 3:20 min. – Shows first an example of Bad Teamwork and then a couple of Good Teamwork
- QFT - Question Formulation Technique (quick guide) - The purpose of this guide is to give you a quick overview of the Question Formulation Technique™ (QFT™) and to provide you with an outline you can use to experience the question formulation process. The process uses cooperative groups to formulate questions and outcomes on an assigned topic. For a comprehensive description and analysis of how to use the Question Formulation Technique™ in the classroom, see, Make Just One Change Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions - Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, Foreword by Wendy D. Puriefoy,2011, Harvard Education Press.
- Group activities
- Strategies for Pairing Students
- Procedure for Forming Groups
- State Changes
- Minute Mania Verbal Fluency
- Whole Group Discussion - How to prepare questions for discussion, Tips for Questioning, and Other Resources
- Measure Progress:
- Self-Assessment Tools - includes rubric, choice, and other self-evaluation tools
- 10 Tools to Create Online Student Portfolios - Online resource giving options for creating student portfolios
- Academic Progress Chart - To chart grade progress (if not using an online program)
- Self-reflection Strategies - includes reflection writing stems, poster, a One-Minute Feedback strategy, etc. - All Age Levels
- Quality work:
- Quality work- A Commitment to Excellence - Definition, Resources, and Examples
- Set goals for individual quality work. Lesson Plan for Introducing Choice and Goal Setting - 2 lesson plans with extensive resources for introducing choice/goal setting at all grade levels and for use with discipline through setting behavior/academic goals. Includes specific examples for the educational setting and 6 Powerpoints.
- Showcasing for Success - the ‘When?’ and ideas for ‘How?’
- Ten Digital Apps for Displaying Work
- Best Work Bowl - Each student creates a “Best Work” Goal - something specific and measurable that results in quality work
- Educators maintain personal contact with learners in an effort to meet individual needs and provide necessary direction and support.
Research
Practice Research Resources
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- The Room Itself Is Active: How Classroom Design Impacts Student Engagement Rands, Melissa, Gansemer-Topf, Ann M., Journal of Learning Spaces, Vol. 6, Number 1. 2017 - Research - The findings demonstrate how classroom design affords engagement through low-cost learning tools and a flexible, open, student-centered space afforded a variety of active learning strategies.
- Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. by Jimmy Casas
- Motivate Learners by Building a Dream/Vision - This piece addresses the Importance of using the Power of Vision for setting goals based on the foundation of the Great Expectations tenets.
- Using New Research to Improve Student Motivation - Contains research-based strategies for motivating and encouraging successful behaviors in learners Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Literature
Educator:
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- “The Bridgebuilder” by Will Allen Dromgoole
- “The Tone of Voice” Author Unknown
- “Heart of a Teacher” Author Unknown
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Learner:
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- It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr - Google Resources
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio - Google Resources
- 22 Diverse Book Choices for All Grade Levels
- RESPONSIBILITY: Literature Lessons –
- COMPASSION Literature Lessons -
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Poetry
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- Practice 6 Poetry - Anthology
- "The Habit Poem" -Author Unknown
- Literature/Poems about RESPONSIBILITY
- Between Teacher and Child by Haim Ginott
- "IF" by Rudyard Kipling - 2:21 min. – Read-aloud video of poem with text
- “Thinking” poem by Walter D. Wintle
- “Equipment” by Edgar Guest
- Poems about COMPASSION
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Vocabulary
Word Wall Vocabulary:
Engage involve fascinate interest
Intrigue engross enthrall immerse
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- Poster Example created with WORD ART
- Poster Example created with Word Clouds
- Vocabulary Strategies - 15 versatile strategies for building and using enriched vocabulary with groups or individuals. References:
- Lexicon Resource - 31 word tasks
- Lower Elementary Lexicon
- Dictionary - link to Merriam-Webster
- Word Wall Ideas
- PreK-2 - wide variety of ideas, instructional strategies, videos, etc.
- Elementary Word Wall and Resources
- MS/HS Word Wall and Resources - activities, literature, websites
- Word Walls in the Secondary Classroom - Guide to creating secondary word walls with activities.
- "Making Word Walls Work in the Secondary Classroom" - Research-based How-to guide with photos of actual word walls in different curriculum areas. Includes links to other resources
- Poster Example created with WORD ART
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“‘Engagement’ in Action”
Brainstorm words that describe how learner engagement looks, sounds, and feels. In pairs create a list of 10 words that describe engagement.
Join another pair, share lists, and add any new words. Join another group of 4 and repeat. The end result will be a list to be posted in the room for use and reflection.
Music & Video Links
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- Compassion Resources Elem and MS/HS - Songs, Videos, Websites, Links to supplementary material within the GE website, and Other Materials
- Responsibility Resources - Songs, Videos, Websites and Other Materials
- Music for the classroom - List of active music links to videos for use in the Classroom
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General Resource Websites:
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- Flipgrid - online tool - Create and record visuals and promote student voice and choice in their learning. Grids are a meeting place for your classroom, your school, your department or any learning community to discuss your topics.
- Seesaw - an App that allows students to explore a variety of powerful tools (like drawing, voice recording, taking videos, and more!) to show what they know in the way that works best for them
- National Science Digital Library - The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels. Educators may search for level PK - 12+ for FREE digital resources. Compatible for making assignments directly to Google Classroom.
- What is QFT? - Question Formulation Technique - Explanation of the steps and videos demonstrating its use in the classroom.
- Experiencing the Question Formulation Technique - An explanation and step-by-step instructions for the process
- Right Questions - Educational Leadership - An Explanation of the process
- Teaching Channel has published a blog series that showcases teachers across the United States who use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). The blog series features educators from the lower-elementary grades through community college. It includes insights from science, history, English, library, and math teachers showing how the effectiveness of the QFT in the classroom is lived out in these educational settings.
- Tools to Create Online Student Portfolios - Online resource giving options for creating student portfolios
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Learning Strategies
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- Preventive Discipline - Multiple strategies for establishing and supporting desired behaviors
- High Expectations - What To Look For - an article covering expectations and tips for time, participation, accountability, productive struggle, verbal and nonverbal messaging, and learning.
- Classroom Management Tips Using Proximity - article giving strategies
- Feedback Resources
- Strategies for Use of the Magic Triad
- Storytelling - A Classroom Teaching Strategy - an article with ideas for using stories to personalize instruction.
- Creating Positive Dialogue by Redirecting with Quotes - Strategies for the use of Quotes including a variety of practical examples and printable quote posters.
- 7 Tips for Motivating Learners