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On page 61 Jensen wrote "When students succeed, you'll want to consistently attribute it to their efforts, planning, persistence...elements under a student's control." The phrase 'consistently attribute' is the key to that idea. Students need  constant reminders when they  achieve whatever  goal their working towards in order for them to be able to replicate the process in the future, especially when it's a student who is  struggling. 

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On page 61 Jensen wrote "When students succeed, you'll want to consistently attribute it to their efforts, planning, persistence...elements under a student's control." The phrase 'consistently attribute' is the key to that idea. Students need  constant reminders when they  achieve whatever  goal their working towards in order for them to be able to replicate the process in the future, especially when it's a student who is  struggling. 

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Connecting to my students from day one will be key to a successful school year. I usually will try and share information about myself so kids will follow suit and tell me about themselves.

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I think teachers often worry about bringing down students' self esteem more than building up their achievement. Although we may try to comfort them, simply accepting their failure is doing them an injustice. We should take their failures, teach them how to grow from them, and encourage students to try harder/differently the next time.

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I have found that engaging students means knowing them, enjoying them and what you do. This means that you will want many positive states of mind in a highly engaging classroom. Students should feel, make, build, talk about, collaborate with others on, and write about. They must debate, reflect on, and take positions on. All this means that you have to be purposeful and carefully plan your lessons thinking about your kids.

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Building that relationship with your student first is key.  It is important as a teacher to not assume they all live under a roof, have parents, have 2 parents and so on.  The saying "We are all connected in this life together.  Always connect first as a person. "  Greeting your students at the door when they walk in.  Noticing changing about students, whether it be a good thing or a downhill slope problem.  Once you show them that you care about them, truly care about them they academic progress with follow suit.

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Building that relationship with your student first is key.  It is important as a teacher to not assume they all live under a roof, have parents, have 2 parents and so on.  The saying "We are all connected in this life together.  Always connect first as a person. "  Greeting your students at the door when they walk in.  Noticing changing about students, whether it be a good thing or a downhill slope problem.  Once you show them that you care about them, truly care about them they academic progress with follow suit.

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Connect with students first as a person and then as a teacher. At the beginning of the school year and throughout the year, if I'm stressed I sometimes forget to share those personal anecdotes about myself which help students see that I'm a real person struggling beside them. While they don't seem like an academic priority at times, we have to keep in mind that those personal relationships is what opens kids up to the academic rigor.

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We may not think that our students' problems seem like a big deal. Often from our perspective, they are small and trite. However, we should seek to understand WHY the students feel it is a big deal. How does that affect them and their emotional well-being. Seek to understand and genuine care about how they feel, regardless of our personal feelings about the problem.

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I think using invisible motivators would help. Especially bringing in successful guests with the same demographics as the students would help them to be more motivated. 

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I think using invisible motivators would help. Especially bringing in successful guests with the same demographics as the students would help them to be more motivated. 

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Jensen’s statement of “there is no us (teachers) and them (students)...we are all connected in this life together” resonated with me (p. 26). It does feel, at times, there there is a divide between teachers and students, and I believe students feel this way as well. Teachers must make sure students understand that teachers see students as people first and students second, but in order for this to work, teachers must truly feel this way. Asking students about their day, asking about their weekends, checking up on them..all of these are simple ways to show students that they are cared about as a person, not just as a student.

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First care for your students as a person, then be a teacher. Even teens need "care"givers and us teachers are often the only ones that care.

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Jensen says " Your students will care about academics as soon as you care about them." (p 26) I think building strong relationships outside of the classroom with students would improve behavior and academics. I think it would help if we formed more clubs and activities that the students can do.

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Your students will care about academics as soon as you care about them... BOOM.

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Your students will care about academics as soon as you care about them... BOOM.

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Care about the students outside of their school lives.

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I agree with Jensen. At the beginning of the school year, I had a few of my students asked me to attend their games and I seemed to have prior engagements on those days that I wouldn't be able to attend. I wish that I had made time to attend some of those games.

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Finding what connections you can make with your students can be a key factor in instilling intrinsic motivation within your students. I loved the example in the book of the math teacher introducing clips of Lionel Messi scoring amazing goals as well as clips of his training sessions, highlighting the persistence of his practice and the sheer volume of mistakes he makes. The idea is that even pros make mistakes. What's important is the drive to make those mistakes, learn from them, and overcome them. That is how you succeed in school and in life.

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Finding what connections you can make with your students can be a key factor in instilling intrinsic motivation within your students. I loved the example in the book of the math teacher introducing clips of Lionel Messi scoring amazing goals as well as clips of his training sessions, highlighting the persistence of his practice and the sheer volume of mistakes he makes. The idea is that even pros make mistakes. What's important is the drive to make those mistakes, learn from them, and overcome them. That is how you succeed in school and in life.

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Having a positive outlook for your students yourself -because it will make a difference. Having a positive attitude and not giving up on those students who need help.

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Having a positive outlook for your students yourself -because it will make a difference. Having a positive attitude and not giving up on those students who need help.

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Attributes of success- to have students succeed with academic rigor.

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An engaging teacher must understand that their mission should be to cultivate the positive states that lead to positive behaviors. High engagement leads to higher performing students.

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I feel like most teachers make engagement overwhelming.  Learn to add one thing at a time.  It does not matter how small. Ex I have incorporated Tinker Cad this year and next year we will add on 3d printing.  The key is baby steps....... 

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I feel like most teachers make engagement overwhelming.  Learn to add one thing at a time.  It does not matter how small. Ex I have incorporated Tinker Cad this year and next year we will add on 3d printing.  The key is baby steps....... 

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Engagement starts with maintaining quality student states. You have to peak interest (arousal), class needs to have structure and flow, and there should always be a sense of control and relaxed atmosphere. Stress, anxiety, frustration, boredom factors have to be reduced in order to achieve student buy-in. Student states are the forefront of quality engagement. 

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Engagement starts with maintaining quality student states. You have to peak interest (arousal), class needs to have structure and flow, and there should always be a sense of control and relaxed atmosphere. Stress, anxiety, frustration, boredom factors have to be reduced in order to achieve student buy-in. Student states are the forefront of quality engagement. 

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Sharing examples of my failure and growth has seemed to help some kids. Celebrating improvement as well as achievement could make an impact as well. Don't encourage the fixed mindset!

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Sharing examples of my failure and growth has seemed to help some kids. Celebrating improvement as well as achievement could make an impact as well. Don't encourage the fixed mindset!

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using a sports video as a hook. I have a unit coming up on space that I think can be used to show success and failure and lessons to be learned from them

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Jensen wrote "Your students will care about academics as soon as you care about them." (pg.26).  Students absolutely LOVE to see teachers at their games, choir, band and theater performances.  I used to pride myself in going to at least 2 games/functions per month (I'm guilty of not doing this this year :() and it really helped me build a relationship with my kiddos.  I'd even write down their jersey numbers and make it a point to cheer for them at least once (or just say I did :)).  My students felt special and would go on and on the next day that they saw me at the game. It really helped with classroom management and building relationships.

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What is something you read between pp. 147-149 that you think would improve students' engagement?

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What is something you read between pp. 147-149 that you think would improve students' engagement?

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What is something you read between pp. 59-61 that you think would improve students' acceptance of academic rigor?

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What is something you read between pp. 59-61 that you think would improve students' acceptance of academic rigor?

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What is something you read between pp. 25-27 that you think would improve relationships within the school?

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What is something you read between pp. 25-27 that you think would improve relationships within the school?

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They can do it!! It's under their control-- all about planning and effort.  When students succeed, attribute it to their good effort &/or never give up attitude

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They can do it!! It's under their control-- all about planning and effort.  When students succeed, attribute it to their good effort &/or never give up attitude

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By showing you care more about them and not their average in your classroom. By seeing them as a person first and student second. By finding away at the start of the school year to make a connection with them. Having more teachers come out to games and performances. Stop making excuses on why you can't do something and try to be present at one extracurricular event.

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I think letting them know that it's OK to fail but its not OK to let the learning process end there.  They have to keep going even if its hard

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I think that purposeful engagement is important. My take-away from the reading was to design lessons with engagement in mind. I really like the quote "engage with purpose every student, every day, every nine minutes or less, guaranteed." I believe that if we design lessons that are student centered and engaging, student achievement will improve and off task behavior will decrease. We need to hold kids accountable for being engaged and challenge ourselves to grab and hold their interest. It will make for a much more pleasant and successful experience for the teachers and students.