Scholar Zone Tips
Scholar Zone Extended Learning materials provide engaging content and activities for your students. There will be many opportunities for you to provide coaching, give feedback, and help build students’ skills. If you are working remotely, let students determine a signal they would like to use when asking for your help. Relationship-Building Ideas The first step for successful instruction starts with building a relationship with the student. Here are a few ideas for conversation starters. • Introductions: At your first session, ask each student to say his or her name. Introduce yourself to your students, sharing the name you would like to be called. • Three Things: Tell your students three things you would like to share about yourself; these details could be related to your job, your family, your home state, your favorite song or performer, or your favorite sports team. Ask your students to share three things as well. • It Takes Practice: Ask your students whether they’ve ever gotten better at something by practicing. You may want to share a skill you’ve practiced and mastered—such as juggling, knitting, shooting baskets, or playing a musical instrument. Explain that the purpose of your sessions is to help them improve with practice. English Learner Tip: If your students would prefer to write responses in their home language(s), invite them to do that and then tell you in English about their writing as best they can. It is important to value students’ home languages, as well as their growing ability to communicate in more than one language.
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