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Challenge | Audience | Timing | Snap Inspiration | Description |
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teacher activity | 5 min | Challenge yourself when planning lessons to consider why the lesson content matters to your students. | ||
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | What happens in your classroom when you stop talking? | |
with students | class period or more | Create a system to allow your students to communicate their feelings and build socio-emotional awareness. | ||
with students | 30 min | Provide a blank canvas where students are free to create. | ||
with students | 5 min | snap | Ask your students: If you wanted to be a good president, what would you need to know? | |
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | Change your language to reflect students’ active role in learning, and alter your perspective on teaching. | |
with students | 30 min | Restructure a lesson to increase the number of times students teach each other. | ||
with students | 30 min | snap | Spend your lunchtime eating with a small group of students. Don't talk about school. | |
with students | class period or more | Track how often you issue praise to students, and what type of praise you are offering. Choose a lesson and make your praise more descriptive. | ||
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | How much of your room is devoted to your students versus the teacher? | |
teacher activity | 30 min | Analyze the posters provided - what are the unintended or implicit messages? | ||
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | How do different types of music energize you for the day? How do they affect your readiness to greet your students? | |
with students | 30 min | Create small posters with students so that you, and they, can get to know each other better. | ||
with students | 5 min | snap | Challenge yourself to find ways to say “yes” more than you say “no”. | |
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | Add "yet" to transform “I can’t” into “I am still learning, and I will figure it out!” | |
with students | 30 min | Ask, "What did we do today/this week that you want to make sure you remember? Keep a record throughout the year. | ||
See Students As Experts | teacher activity | 30 min | Name one way each of your students is an expert. Use it as an opportunity to build on their strengths. | |
with students | 30 min | Pick three "difficult" students and/ or students you don't know that well. Learn something new. | ||
parent engagement | 5 min | Send your students' families questions to ask at home. | ||
with students | 5 min | snap | What happens when you change "Speak up" to "Share your voice"? | |
with students | 5 min | Each day, choose 1-2 transitions within the classroom. Replace the routine with on that emphasizes movement. | ||
with students | class period or more | Tape your class then then track the kinds of questions you ask. Reflect on how to make them more meaningful. | ||
with students | 5 min | Have a discussion with students to re-think ways to creatively walk in the hall that still meet school expectations. Then, try them out. | ||
teacher activity | 5 min | snap | Think about the last time you learned a new skill or dug into finding out about a new topic - just because it mattered to you. | |
with students | class period or more | Ask your students what they want their classmates to learn from them this year. |