Today’s podcast, Bromley discusses the key ideas behind the blog post:The key to goal setting and improvement is breaking it down into little steps that can be accomplished and measured every day.
Student Success Podcast No. 21, Jan. 7, 2015
Are you in the “zone”?Do you thrive when you’re hyper-focused, all else be damned?
Ever gotten so deep into something you missed everything else?
For better or worse, I, too, am an all-in, overly-focused personality. Continue reading
We call them “short cuts.” I don’t know why.If the long way isn’t necessary, why take it? Kids sure won’t.
So teachers, are you just setting up unwanted shortcuts, or are you creating useful, relevant paths for your students?
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What’s your excuse? I mean, everyone has one, don’t they?Interviewing students for our A+ Club student support service, we’ve heard some really good ones:
“I loaned my book and he never gave it back.”
“My computer doesn’t work.”
“I lost my calculator.”
And the ever popular…
“I hate that teacher.”
When we say, “Oh, well,” to a failure, we are more likely to repeat the mistake. Instead, correct forward rather than excusing backwards. Quite literally, this is “problem solving.”There will always be obstacles and difficulties. Success doesn’t happen by itself. It’s all about learning from problems instead of resigning to them — or worse, using them as an excuse to give up on our goals. Continue reading
In business, the 80/20 rule states that 20% or your clients will expend the resources it takes to support the other 80%. In other words, 20% of your clients will be needy, while the other 80% will be on autopilot.
With teaching, one would be thrilled to have 80% on autopilot.
Imagine if! Continue reading
The Textbooks dilemma: are they for teaching or learning?A student told me today that he prefers a certain teacher over the others because that teacher doesn’t use a textbook.
Wow, that’s cool, I say.
“So why do your other teachers use textbooks?”
“I have no idea.”
“And what do you learn from them?”
“I have no idea.” Continue reading
I hate my teacher!Teachers, I can’t tell you how much I hear from kids that they’re ready to learn, but their teacher keeps getting in the way.
Yep, we hear it all the time, “I hate my teacher!” But if we listen behind the angry words, what kids are really saying is that they’d rather like than hate their teachers. Continue reading
Building up the house: in-school student oversight with Gabriella CarboneStudent Success Podcast No. 20, Sept 4, 2014 (recorded July 11, 2014)
Today’s Guest: Gabriella Carbone.
In this interview, Gabriella discusses her Academic Coaching work with high school student athletes during the 2013/14 school year. Focusing on athletes, Gabriella helped them track work, build executive function and interpersonal skills. She served as their counselor, mentor, advocate and friend. Continue reading
