Teacher Expectations Make a Difference

Yay!  It's Thanksgiving! I hope you all are having a great day! I am thankful for so many things! Especially God, my husband, my family and friends. One thing that I am also grateful for is being a TpT Teacher Author and having this blog.

I love that I'm one of the lucky teachers that gets the whole week off for break. I've taken advantage of my time off to relax, create, and reflect. I took some time to reflect on my blog and what I would like to do with my little piece of the social media world.

As an Instructional Coach, one of my big passions is helping teachers help their students! I feel invigorated when I'm working with a teacher and the ideas that we come up with start to work. Then I I thought, geez, why don't I blog about it?!

So, my notebook is filled with ideas and I'm ready to share with you all some techniques that you can use in your classroom with your students to help them achieve!

As a new teacher, I knew how important it was to have high expectations of our students. I'd hear things like "All can achieve." "Expect only the best." "We teach students not curriculum." Even though I had high expectations for them, they weren't performing to the level that I "expected" them to. Rookie mistake...

My rookie mistake was that while I had high expectations, I wasn't communicating that to my students. I knew what I expected from them, but they did not. So it was no wonder that my students didn't meet my level of expectation... I never told them what I expected, worse yet, I never showed them. Ha!!! I can laugh now. But those first few years were frustrating.

That's what I want to take the time and discuss over the next few blog posts, specific and concrete tips or advice that can help a teacher. The best part is these are actionable techniques that you can start using in your classroom right away! (Well, after Thanksgiving Break.)

I will be completely honest and share that what I am going to be writing about aren't new ideas I've come up with. I'm just going to share ideas that I've compiled over the years that have worked in my room and with other teachers!

Some of the topics I'll be covering in the coming months:

• Reflecting on your Classroom Culture/Environment
• Expecting 100%
• Active Listening
• No-Opting Out
• Having a Growth Mindset
• Praising and Encouraging
• Encouraging Mistakes
• Desisting Poor Behaviors

If there are any other ideas or topics that you would like covered. I'd love to hear about them! Just leave a comment below and let me know what you're interested in!

Check back on Sunday, November 29th, I'll be sharing with you all the first topic: Reflecting on our Classroom Culture/Environment!

Again, Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Many blessings to you and your family!