TechNollerGist Ep. 9: Developing Relationships

Relational Mindset Part 1: Personalize Learning

This may be a bit far afield from our usual "edtech" focus but the TechNollerGist has some thoughts on the importance of building intentional relationships with EACH student.
Personalize Learning

• Developing Relationships have the same capacity for predicting success as IQ or Standardized Test Scores.
• According to John Hattie and Robert Marzano, having good relationships with teachers have effect sizes of 0.72 and 0.87, respectively. (0.8 is a large effect, and 1.2 is a very large effect)

Learn names — super simple? super impactful!

• personal connection
• make the learning of their names visible…
• let them see you struggle but persevere
• Strategies
• Students say their name before they speak
• Use desk name tags
• Alliteration or association
• Inject the TECH
• Photo gallery
• Games: Kahoot or Quizizz — MC

“Me Bag”

• teacher shares items with class
• connect items to stories that tell who we are
• relate to students as a person first, and as a teacher second
• open to students — a few per day
• inject the TECH
• Video tour
• Presentation (Google, Prezi, etc)
• Photostory
• Website

Share everyday problems

• easy way to connect to students
• share a personal problem from your own life
• students share reactions and solutions
• set expectations to avoid inappropriate responses, but use errors as teachable moments
• demonstrate that difficult problems can be solved with strategies, patience, perseverance, critical thinking

Share progress on goals

• share goal and tell them how you plan to meet them
• share setbacks and how you overcome them
• model goal-setting and the process
• students set own personal goals
• establish a collective goal for the entire class
• Promotes sense of belonging/ownership
• Promotes community

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