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focus on best effort instead of the grade

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lowering academic expectations and celebrating what is completed. Then increasing the expectation as their confidence grows

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Grading on doing their best, use time wisely, meet the requirements = full points

Safety net that can't fail if you've tried

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acknowledge that they are finding the assignment hard and problem solve with them

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Scaffolding so that students measure their own progress.

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One on one conversations.

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Foster curiosity

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It's ok to make mistakes and you don't need to have the right answer.

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Own up to my own mistakes as a teacher but emphasize how I try again and again to get it right.

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Show comparison to initial attempt vs where they are now

"If I'm better now, maybe I can continue to grow."

Easy to forget you weren't good at something to begin with.

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Helping students deal with overwhelm and the value of hard work. 

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Helping students deal with overwhelm and the value of hard work. 

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Acknowledging when students are working hard, and praising them.

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Make a big deal when a marker is met!

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offering a space in the classroom to give more help to struggling students

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offering a space in the classroom to give more help to struggling students

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continue fostering strong relationships with students so they feel comfortable sharing when they are struggling

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Sentence starters to give them ways to talk positively about themselves.

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"Almost there" instead of "Wrong!"

Use sports as analogies of results of hard work

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Could a side benefit of giving more homework actually be that students are able to practice their time management skills, persistence, and overcoming barriers? Self efficacy is how the students feel they are able to reach success and overcome barriers; homework can (though not always) provide limited barriers that students are expected to overcome to be successful in class.

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If anyone is asked about achieving their hardest work, they might not respond positively.

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Give small tasks. Working in pairs. Reminding students “no perfections. Practice makes better. Intentional about your own mistakes, exposing your own failure. Pairing up with people whom they feel comfortable with.

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Let students see that you don't have all of the answers - but you know how to find them

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-foster activities that address grit and growth mindset

-teach kids what grit and growth mindset are

-scaffolding for harder/grittier tasks

-teach perseverance / and grit toolbox

-mindset work/teaching

-name it/tame it

-intentional SEL instruction

-helping students identify thei why

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Could we partner with counseling to help teach students how to identify what they need help with specifically? What part of the assignment specifically stuck on? How can we have these conversations with students that we are building a relationship with?