Connections

**Connections in the Maiers and Jackson Books**
Think about the connections you see between these topics and the information in the Jackson book, then post one such example here. List the concept in the first column, what Jackson says about it in the second column, and what Maiers has to say in the third column. Add your initials behind the last entry.

(Kelli Shryock) || "start where your students are at" || - stop trying to climb the mountain and begin concentrating on the pebbles - || (Gloria Vavra) || "start with a million dollar question" || -stop trying to answer the questions so quickly and let the students engage in dialouge to come up with multiple "right" answers. || (Becky Bell-Krueger) || "Support your students and let each choose a strategy that works best for them." || "Don't hang on to what is easy and comfortable, you won't get better or stronger as learning never stops. What tools or behaviors helped you to adapt successfully?" || (Tera Koupal) || "Know your students means more than knowing their demographics or test scores. It means recognizing what currency they have and value and then using that currency to help them acquire the capital of the classroom." || "We all have strengths and weaknesses in regard to our learning performance and capabilities. Knowing yourself, knowing your strength, preferences, and areas of need is a critical characteristic of a successful learner." || (Mike Koupal) || "focus on quality not quantitiy" || "Discovery, innovation, creativity, and learning all begin with imagination. We take this away by forcing students to memorize and repeat rather than to think and envision." || (Karon Stevens) || Learning to be comfortable with a little struggle will help students learn to effectively manage challenge. || We have to stand back and try looking at the problem from different angles or perspectives. || (Curtis Huffman) || Putting It All Together. Remember that real change takes time. "Lasting change does not happen in a day, or even a month. It takes time to make these changes an integral part of your practice and for the adjustments you make to your teaching to feel natural." || Perseverance cannot be "mastered". It develops over time and with practice. || (Leah Howes) || "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney Envision and dream...be willing to work...get uncomfortable! || As teachers we need to support our students and in turn the students will have the courage to learn something new because they know that they have the support of their teacher. || (Melissa Mebius) || We underestimate our students' abilities and overestimate the value of our own contributions. || It is far easier to kill an idea than to encourage it and turn it into a useful solution. || (Erin Bergeleen) || "Expect to get your students there" Set expectations for your students and then do things to help them get there. || Instead of focusing on the negatives of students and problems, use different situations and problems as a way to adapt and turn a situation into a positive one. It is acceptable to change a plan or action in order to get a desired result or outcome. || (Theresa Koupal) || "Support your students." Celebrate their successes and work diligently with them to overcome their failures. || Perseverance is the cornerstone of any successful endeavor, in school and out. It is a key to victory over unfavorable circumstances." || "We display courage when we: I believe it is part of our actions as a teacher to help our students become aware of what their "currencies" are. Some have been so beaten down and denigrated, that a currenciy that is hidden just under the surface can be brought to light giving that student some success || A Students ability to perform and commit to excellence requires:preparedness with clear goals; courageous conviction; self-management... || Never Work Harder than Your Students - Your job is not to solve problems for your studenst. Your job is to provide them with just enough guidance so that they can solve problems on their own...teach students how to manage their own behavior. || (Jason Von Eschen) || Knowing your students means more than knowing their demographics or test scores. It means recognizing what currency they have and value and then using that currency to help them acquire the capital of the classroom. || Knowing who you are, where you are going and what you want to be when you grow up is an obvious benefit in your life's quest.... || (Gina Bialas) || "Just because students come to us with alternate forms of intellectual and cultural currency does not mean that they are less capable. It means that they have skills that may be unrecognized in the classroom context and potential that has yet to be developed." Start where Your Students Are || "Successful learning is more that just absorbing and remembering information. Understading in school and in our lives requires many different parts of our imagination. In fact, imagination is so important it has been called 'the most essential tool for human intelligence.' " || (Gwyneth Dean-Witte) || "start with a million dollar question" || engage your students by not giving answers or confirming answers. support multiple answers and creative solutions. || (Stephanie Rostad) || "We can only have high expectations of our students if we believe that it is possible that we can help our students and if we believe that it is important to do so." || "Imaginative problem solving does not make my problems and challenges disappear, but it does allow me to see problems in a different ways." (exact quote includes grammatical error) || (Connie McLaughlin) || "...honored the currencies and preferences of her students and at the same time, helped them acquire new currencies that they could use to be successful in her classroom." || "The point is that we do need to be taught to do things like coloring shapes at a young age, but shouldn't we also be taught how to invent, create, and look at problems from a totally different perspective?" || Tom McPhail || "As the year progressed, I had students break the long-term assignments down into manageable parts. In that way, I helped students learn how to achieve long-term goals. (Page 38) || "Perseverance is the cornerstone of any successful endeavor. We don't immediately run a marathon. We concentrate on our daily commitment to running." ||
 * **Topic/Concept** || **Never Work Harder than Your Students by Jackson** || **Classroom Habitudes by** **Maiers** ||
 * Perserverance
 * Curiosity
 * Adaptability
 * Self Awareness
 * Imagination
 * Perseverence (Donna Wagner) || We can only have high expectations of our students if we believe that it is possible that we can help our students and if we believe that it is important to do so. || Students will respect you for your successes, but they will love you when you're vulnerable about your struggles through hard times. Whether you are running a race, or working through a difficult problem in school, perseverance is the difference between success and failure. ||
 * Problem Solving
 * Perseverance
 * Courage
 * Problem Solving
 * Adaptability
 * Adaptability (Doreen Kuca) || There is more than one answer- be flexible || Adaptability is using change as a learning tool. ||
 * Perseverance
 * Courage (Kim Borkowskki) || P144. " The best thing we can do for our students who fail is to provide them with an honest assessment of why they failed and show them how to do better the next time." P145 " ...showing them how to expend effective effort.....use feedback to show students not just how to work hard, but how to work hard at the right things so that they will not fail in the future" || P82. " Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill."
 * Allow failure, *Learn from bad decisions,
 * Listen intently to ideas and opinions that differ from ours, * Become honest with ourselves, taking responsibility for outcomes positive or not, *Remain confident in the face of opposition, internal or external." KB ||
 * Self-Awareness (Mary Lease || "Understand What Currencies YOur STudents Are Currently Spending" "Not only do we need to understand what currencies we value, we need to pay attention to what currencies our students bring with them." || "SElf-awareness is the ability to simultaneously exist both inside andoutside of ourselves...we're equipped to make conscious and deliberate decisions about the course we wish our lives to take; not just retrospectively, but proactively."
 * Perserverance (Julie Bruckner) || Perseverance is not only the ability to get done what needs to be done - -but to continue the effort no matter what.
 * Self Awareness
 * Imagination
 * Curiosity
 * Imagination
 * Imagination
 * Perseverance/Long Range Planning