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It is important to set and maintain high expectations of our students for several reasons. It can help to build their self confidence and shows that you genuinely care about the student and believe in them. I believe that students can accomplish what they set their mind too. It is important we aim high and not low!
Supporting our students by giving them opportunities to "prove it" to themselves is an important takeaway from the TedTalk.

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It is important to set and maintain high expectations because that is how one provides equal learning opportunities for students, allowing them to explore their capabilities and use their full potential.

One thing that sparked my interest was the speaker's ability to make a shift from culturally set norm within the classroom to a more engaged audience by switching roles with the students.

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I thought it was interesting the way she challenged the kids to learn something (Shakespere) that even other adults thought would be difficult for them. Then she have them confidence to share their own learning.

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It is important to have high expectations as it leads the students to surprising and believing in themselves. High expectations pushes students to build their self confidence and encourages engagement in learning.

Something that she said that I found interesting and want to continuously think about is that students have to surprise themselves to realize what they are capable of achieving. They need to experience authentic success to truly believe in themselves. Another important point was that we, as teachers, must put aside our preconceptions and set challenges for our students. By showing students that we believe in them, support them, and give them challenging opportunities, they will begin to have a growth mindset.

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It is important to set and maintain high expectations because it shows that we believe in them. We need to give them the support and opportunities to succeed. Students need to realize and experience for themselves that they can succeed to really change their mindset.
One thing that sparked my interest was the example of making Shakespeare relevant to the students' lives and how she used this to teach them things that others didn't think was possible. It just reinforces the idea that if you believe in them, challenge them, and support them, it gives them the opportunities for success.

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I think that it is important to set high expectations so students don't to get used to certain norms. I think it all depends on grade level and as they continue to get older, the expectations get more defined. I think in the beginning of the year it is good to get to know where the students are and give them information they know to get used to being in school again, but once they are in school for a few weeks and teachers get to know the students then I think that teachers should begin to push the students out of their comfort zone.
A example would be that I work with a one-on-one and this last year this student used highlighter to guild her for writing, and this year I set the expectation with them that, lets try with out, but let me know if it becomes to difficult or need help writing a certain letter and I can either help with highlighter. I think doing small steps like that will help students build their confidence as well.
During the video I like how she talking about giving students the space-time-and support them. I found interesting about her time in the other country and how their norms in being in school is different, that they don't ask question or blurt out. I figured that all kids would just want to blurt out and talk.

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Everyone takes pride in learning new skills, gaining new knowledge and insights, and we need to foster this by setting high expectations. When children are praised without working hard to acquire these skills, they may feel patronized. By setting high expectations, we are teaching them to set high expectations for themselves, and we also send the message that we believe they can learn a specific skill. Some of these students need to work hard to learn a skill, so they need to know that we think they can learn it too. If they believe their hard work will not pay off, if they feel we doubt them, they will stop trying.
I was amazed and inspired that she even attempted to teach Shakespeare to younger students. And she succeeded. I often teach through poetry and drama in my Hungarian school, but I have never tried this approach in American schools.

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It is important to have high expectations for students because they will rise to the occasion. They will think of themselves positively and know they can do it.
The five year girl with leg braces was most impressive with me. It was a superb analogy of students overcoming their impediments. Most importantly she believed in herself and she proved it to herself, that she could persevere and achieve high expectations.

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I think that having high expectations for all our students helps them to be confident and try to reach their goals. As Teachers we need to believe, challenge and support our students. From the video I admire her that it does not matter where in the world she teaches, she finds a way to keep the students engaged and they learn.
I would like to put aside all my pre-conceptions and make my students believe that they are capable of achieving any goal they want to.

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It is important to set high expectations with students because they will generally accept your expectations or move towards them. Having the higher expectations tells our students that we believe in their ability to learn. If we don't expect much of our students then we are saying we don't think they are very capable of learning or doing.
I thought the phrase 'authentic success' was interesting in the video. Authentic success to me was when the students engaged in the material deeply (shakespeare being quoted amongst students outside of class) and they were taking control of their learning. This learning became fun and therefore held their attention, allowing them to get deeper in the material. They were successful in this situation because they all engaged deeply together, and learned from each other.

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I really liked the examples she gave, particularly the last one about
Shakespeare and the student rock climbing wall.  Pushing students outside of their comfort zone is a way to give them a genuine sense of accomplishment by achieving what they normally would not have, or even attempted to do.  I do have a lot of questions about the context and process in this, as well as how reproducible this is.  It reminds me a lot of Freedom Writers.

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It's important to set and maintain high expectations because it communicates to the kids that you believe in them. In another class we had, we watched a video where the students knew they were receiving below grade-level work, or "baby work" as they called it. They know when the teachers don't believe in them, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where they don't strive to meet high expectations because both themselves and the teacher don't believe they can.

The term in the video that sparked interest for me was authentic success. It's not enough for the teacher to believe in the student, the student must believe in themselves. As educators, we must provide multiple opportunities for this to happen. A great example would be the story of the field trip to the college, where the 11 year-old was able to correct the tour guide about Olde English.

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First, I think it is important to recognize that high expectations will vary from student to student and may not be the same for everyone. Here is where that scaffolding can help provide support for those high expectations. High expectations are important for the students because it provides the student with confidence in themselves and their abilities and for growth in their learning. One thing that sparked my interest is the quote, "They can blow us away with what they can achieve, but they can't always do it alone." We need to believe in them, challenge them, and support them.

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What sparked my interest: Pushing students passed what they may think their limits are to show that they can comprehend and expand their knowledge capacity. Also, allowing students to question and challenge one another and even the teacher for students to showcase what they are thinking and create an environment to allow multiple points of view.
High expectations: As a teacher, or an adult in a classroom and having high expectations allows for students to believe that they do more than they may believe they can! Being a student and having people believe in you, is a great feeling and allows for the student to embrace and expand on their knowledge and abilities.

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Like she said in the video, "students have to surprise themselves" to see that they can succeed so when we set high expectations for them, it allows that room to really see that they can accomplish more. Another thing that I will paraphrase is that all students have potential but need belief, challenge, and support from someone (we are the someone). It is really about changing our mindset and going beyond the traditional motions within teaching and show up for students in deeper ways. We can push them to great success but they will be the ones doing the work, we are just there to support!

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It is important to set and maintain high expectations for several reasons. It makes teaching so much easier (and fun)! Students are more likely to put in more effort if they believe that they can do hard things! Students will continue to grow even when they don't think they are.
It's inspiring to see kids who don't think they can be successful be successful and feel that joy!
Something that sparked my interest to get kids to ask more questions is to have them deliver the content. Could I have my third graders try to learn something new on their own, and then teach the class? Could they do that? I bet they would, but I bet it would be a struggle at first!

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It's important to set and maintain high expectations so students can build their self confidence and experience authentic success. When we have high expectations students are able to see that they have an educator who cares, supports, challenges, and believes that they can accomplish something.

Something that I really took away from this Ted Talk was when she said it's important that we give students the opportunity to "prove it" to themselves. Sometimes it's not enough to tell students they can succeed, they need to experience that feeling and really believe they can do it. Later when they face something challenging again they can reflect on that feeling or experience and think to themselves "I did it before, I can do it again". We need to create a safe space and give time for students to explore and challenge themselves.

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Setting high expectations is necessary for ANYone to grow, but setting them is the easy part. We can all dream up a scenario in which students become inspired by us and reach higher and higher and higher toward lifelong success, but then they come in with attitudes and wounds and human lives that make maintaining our high expectations really, really difficult. But it stunts them if we don't hold to that bar...

Ms. Lander's statement about it being one thing for students to hear they can succeed, but quite another for them to actually experience it -- that hit HARD, for me. They've got to taste a win before they'll work for the next one. You can tell them all day how capable they are, but if they've never seen the fruit of that capability, why would they believe you?? It's got me brainstorming how to get more wins in my classroom, especially with the group who doesn't believe a win is in the cards for them...

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I think it's important to set high expectations because sometimes students (and teachers) don't know their full potential.  Teachers can't be afraid for their students to struggle. That is part of growing. Something that resonated with me was that sometimes teachers want to protect their students from failure.   Life is not easy...there will be ups and downs.  Students need to learn how to roll with the punches and rise above.

An item that sparked my interest in the video was when she said, " Any student can achieve great things."  This means great things for each particular student.  A high expectation may look different from one student to the next depending on where that particular student is at.  Teachers can be their support, but the students have to be willing to do the work.

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Setting high expectations help build internal confidence in students. I loved that the teacher in the video had engaging "hooks" for her students that she could build off of (ex. Shakespearean insults). I also appreciated her example of her work in Thailand where she asked students to be teachers, knowing that her students would benefit being pushed out of their comfort zones.

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High expectations encourage kids to think beyond what they already think they can do.
One thing that sparked my interest was the use of higher level literature with younger students and using a more modern interpretation (especially with setting).

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It is important to have high expectations for students because they need to be able to grow and learn and doing otherwise will cut their wings before they even try to fly.
One thing that I found inspiring is creating a scenario where all students can EXPERIENCE success, not just hear that they are capable but actually feel successful. I also like the three things she recommended we should do as teachers, "to believe in students, to challenge them and to support them", I think that is very important and providing growth opportunities to every student will only make them better and stronger.

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It is important because students need to be shown what they are capable of learning and we can do that by setting high goals for them. They might not get encouragement from others and we can teach them how to try and even how to deal with failure correctly.

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We set the bar high so that students reach for it. Hearing from an adult that they trust that them believe in them is powerful and can inspire them to meet high expectations.

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I think it's important to set high expectations because our students need to know we believe in them.
One thing that sparked my interest was thinking about how we can get students to break free of limits they have constructed for themselves.

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Please post after you talk in your breakout rooms.

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Please post after you talk in your breakout rooms.