How can a teacher help a student achieve their goals?
How Can Teachers Help Students Reach Their Goals?
Teach Test-Taking and Studying Strategies. ...
Let Students Know You're Ready To Help. ...
Encourage Questions. ...
Spend Time With Every Student. ...
Offer Plenty of Praise. ...
Help Students Set Personal Goals. ...
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How do you help students set and reach their goals?
Five ways to help students focus on goals
Learn how to foster a Growth Mindset. Focus on students' strengths, progress, and the process of learning. ...
Have them use individual goal sheets. ...
Have them jot down 'success' notes. ...
Have them write about their learning journey.
What must a teacher do to successfully reach and teach students?
7 Powerful Ways to Reach Every Student in Your Classroom
Invest in Your Students. One crucial way for teachers to reach students is to invest in building a solid relationship with learners. ...
Use Humor. ...
Vary Your Delivery. ...
Use Behavior Contracts. ...
Get to Know Your Student's Backstory. ...
Use Rewards and Incentives.
An Age Old Question
As most teachers know, each student is unique. One of the biggest challenges that every teacher faces at one point or another is how to reach every student and help them succeed. This is exactly the question TeachersConnect asked several teacher YouTubers recently. And while their backgrounds varied widely – from CJ Reynolds, who teaches High School students – to Elizabeth Coller, who teaches kindergarteners – some consistent patterns emerged in their answers to this age-old question. Here are some of the top 7 takeaways for how teachers can reach every student.
1. Invest in Your Students
One crucial way for teachers to reach students is to invest in building a solid relationship with learners. As human beings, all of us want to feel valued and cared for by the people in our lives – students included. It’s important to know, therefore, the power that we wield – as teachers – over our students. When students understand that you care about them and you take the time to build a relationship with them, they are more likely to be invested in their relationship with you and less likely to want to disappoint you. (See Melissa’s video at 8:05)
At this point, you might be wondering: What are some good ways to build a relationship with my students? Well, there are many ways, and if you’re a teacher you probably know how, but some of the unique ways that some of the teacher YouTubers mentioned included using Team Building and/or Getting-to-Know-You activities regularly in the class. In these activities, students are free to share their feelings or talk about things they’re going through. Look at it as a time for bonding with your students, as well as students bonding with each other. This can help to eliminate some problems before they start. And again, it can help students feel that they have someone that they can talk to. (See Shelley’s video at 4:50)
2. Empower Students Through Choices
Another way to motivate students is to empower them by giving them choices. Remember that old adage “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink?” Well, asking all students in your high school class to write a 20-page essay about Shakespeare may not work for every student. Instead, you could give your students a choice of several topics to choose from, or you can allow them to choose a topic of their own. This way they get to write about something that they’re interested in. It’s win-win for everyone! (See Shelley’s video at 1:50)
3. Use Humor
Let’s face it, many students are natural comedians, and they love a good laugh. Not only that, when teachers share a joke with students, it helps to put everyone at ease and brings about positive feelings. Even if you don’t consider yourself a naturally funny person, you can still keep things light in the classroom. One way to do this is to write some humor into everyday things such as tests, writing assignments or homework. Also, once a week you can have something like a Funny Friday, where you start your day off by asking students to talk about a funny movie or TV show or share their favorite jokes with the class. If you’re not funny, bring another passion or part of yourself to the classroom. Do you love music, art, theater, movies? Are you a great storyteller? Baker? (See CJ’s video at 1:00)
4. Vary Your Delivery
No two teachers ever teach the same way, just as no two students learn in the same way. And while it’s not the teacher’s job to keep students entertained, it is important to understand that one of the roles of an educator is to engage their students in the learning process in the best possible way. This means selecting the delivery style which works best for each lesson while at the same time addressing the diverse needs of each student. But how does an educator take on the mammoth task of teaching to each learning style in the classroom? Well, one way to do this is first to consider the delivery method which works best for each lesson and plan lessons in a variety of formats; this may include text, charts, interactive groups, drawing, 3-D modeling, speeches, interviews, videos, etc. For example, a lesson on climate change may include having your students watch a documentary, do interviews, write a report and create 3D-models. Students need a wealth of experiences to cement their learning. And constructing multi-sensory lessons creates an atmosphere where students are engaged and excited about learning. It also makes it much more likely that each student will experience feelings of confidence as well as moments of intellectual and social challenge. (See Megan’s video at 4:30)
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