New Teacher Tips: Communicating Success in Threes

If your students are not achieving the success you expect them to achieve, try communicating your expectations in ways they can understand.

So when you communicate expectations to your students, keep in mind the following:

1. Use positive language.

You'd be amazed how students respond when a teacher believes in them. They bloom like flowers in the spring!

So don't say: "Don't do __________" BUT,

"You can do ____________."

2. Offer a clean slate to all students. Start each new day fresh and clean. Forget what happened the day(s) before.

3. Speak to your students from where you expect them to be, not from where they currently are. By doing this, you are telling them they need to be constantly learning and growing if they want to be successful learners.

So long as we communicate expectations of success consistently, our students will experience more positive learning experiences.

All we need is the right mindset, motivation and words.

Don't let anything stop you from achieving the success you see for yourself and your students.

Expect success.

When we think we know how to respond to various classroom incidents, we don't always take into consideration how our own perceptions play a strong role in our classroom actions.

All we really need is a technique to help us gain clarity and distance.

Just for today, see if you can change your limiting perceptions about any troubling issue or classroom incident you've been experiencing lately.

Start by asking yourself the following:

• Another way I can look at this is by ________________________________

• I choose to believe that ______________________________________

Don't struggle on your own.

Be empowered by your own decisions!

Then take control in the classroom knowing that you'll be making a difference.

And expect good things to happen.