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Provide Frequent and Timely Feedback. Enough Can't Be Said About The Importance of Sharing

The document discusses 10 practices that teachers can adopt to help students find success and keep their focus, including providing frequent feedback, valuing parental involvement, trying new strategies, offering second chances, being resourceful, making learning active, advocating for themselves and students, pursuing lifelong learning, encouraging discussion, and keeping a positive outlook.

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Provide Frequent and Timely Feedback. Enough Can't Be Said About The Importance of Sharing

The document discusses 10 practices that teachers can adopt to help students find success and keep their focus, including providing frequent feedback, valuing parental involvement, trying new strategies, offering second chances, being resourceful, making learning active, advocating for themselves and students, pursuing lifelong learning, encouraging discussion, and keeping a positive outlook.

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Jerry G. Gabac
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Let’s face it, teaching isn’t easy.

There are lot of hoops for jumping


and curveballs being pitched on a daily basis. Somehow teachers
seem to keep it all together and maintain the focus of helping students
find success. When it seems like that focus is starting to waiver,
beginning or restoring these 10 practices can be just what’s needed to
keep educators grounded and to make positive impacts on all
students.

1. Provide frequent and timely feedback. Enough can’t be said about the importance of sharing
feedback with students during the learning process. Setting up checkpoints, offering a
variety of formative assessments, and discussing learning in real time are all essential.
2. Value parental/familial involvement. Students have an entire life outside of school and
hopefully a solid support system. Bridging a connection between these two worlds helps
everyone stay informed and makes it easier for parents to reinforce and support what’s
happening in the classroom.
3. Sidestep the comfort zone. Innovations and new strategies are occurring all the time. This
doesn’t mean that every bandwagon should be boarded, but in trying something new and
unfamiliar, teachers can find additional ways to impact students, and students can see an
exemplar of risk taking.
4. Offer second chances/clean slates. Rather than focusing on what can’t be changed from the
past, let the focus be on making the best future. Some students will push limits, but when
they are in your presence, they should be getting the best and most positive version of you.
5. Be resourceful. Whether this means thinking outside of the box for procuring supplies or
adding a little DIY spin to what seemed to be an unattainable resource, teachers can always
seem to find a way to get it done.
6. Make learning active. Students are going to find more impactful takeaways from doing
rather than simply listening or viewing. Offer opportunities for students to be actively
engaged in their learning journeys.
7. Be an advocate. This is twofold. Teachers need to advocate for themselves and for their
students. This can involve advocating for supplies, services, training, etc.
8. Pursue lifelong learning. Staying up-to-date on movements and developments in the field
allows teachers to help students prepare for an ever-changing world. Pursuing personal
passions outside of education also benefits learners because teachers can reflect on what it is
like to be in the shoes of their students.
9. Encourage discussion. Through discussion, students are exposed to a variety of opinions
and ideas that may or may not be similar to their own. Classrooms offer a perfect forum for
teaching students to respect others and learn to share information, agree, and disagree in a
productive and nonthreatening fashion.
10. Keep a positive outlook. Don’t get caught up with the naysayers. When (not if) this negative
attitude trickles over to the students, it can have detrimental effects on the learning
environment as a whole. Be mindful and always remember that a adding a positive spin to
necessary or mundane tasks goes a long way.
Teachers are some of the most passionate and committed
professionals out there. Part of this passion and commitment is a drive
to provide every student with meaningful and impactful learning
experiences. By taking the time to reflect on how these 10 best
practices fit into their current pedagogy, teachers are putting
themselves one step closer to achieving this goal.

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