Emotional Constancy

Emotional Constancy

• Control of your emotions.
• Tie your emotions to student performance.

"Part of adolescence is experimenting with exaggerated emotions."

Modulate your emotions.

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Success is in the long run about a student's consistent relationship with productive behaviors.(Lemov,2010)

Champion Protocols

• No Opt Out
• Right is Right
• Stretch It
• 100%
• Threshold
• The Hook
• Positive Framing
• Cold Call

Everybody Writes

• Please get out of your seat.
• On the tables, identify a strategy(ies) that you've implemented.
• On the poster, explain the situation, how you used the strategies and describe their level of success.
• Remember, silence is golden !!!
• Sit back down and be ready to discuss your answer.

Climate of Trust

• positive behavior expectations
• self-control
• language/tone

Tie your emotions to student achievement.

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"Students are not supposed to behave to please you; they are supposed to behave so they can better themselves, be the best people they can be,and get the most of school."

Everybody Writes

Benefits of "Everybody Writes"

• Increases cognitive activity
• Gives your students a moment to gather their thoughts so that they are better prepared to participate in a discussion.
• Students increase their practice of writing.
• Gives you the opportunity to review and select effective responses for the beginning of class. (Tie in with cold call)
• Widens the participation group by giving everyone a chance to be part of the conversation.
• The amount and quality of writing a student does it a determinant of their academic success

How to Implement

• Let your students do the work. Allow them 1-2 minutes to struggle and write their response before discussion. This allows reflection time.
• Ask astute and demanding questions which require the struggle.
• Can be used as a brainstorm or for the think time in a think-pair-share.

How to Implement

• Consider having students walk in with a reflection on assigned reading so you can start the class where you would normally end.

Joan Didion
" I write to know what I think."