1. Communicating Value and Respect for Low Expectancy Students
Design Question 9 - Element 39:
How do teachers communicate value and respect for all students, especially those who are low expectancy students?

2. Before we begin…
Before we begin talking about element 39, let’s be sure that there is an understanding about how the elements in Design Question 9 are related. This is important as you plan your lessons.
Directions: watch the video on the next slide. Please take notes, documenting how the elements in Design Question 9 are related.

3. Video – How do the elements in DQ9 relate to each other?
Please click on the link to view the video from Pasco County Schools that provides an introduction to the elements in Design Question 9.

4. How do the elements in Design Question 9 relate to each other?
What a teacher believes about the chances of student success influences the teacher’s actions with students. Design Question 9 addresses the notion that all students should feel that the teacher has high expectations for them. At the beginning of the video, they tell us the desired effect for the design question, which sums up the relationship between the three elements very nicely. By using these three elements, students will know you have high expectations for ALL of them.

5. Review Teacher and Student Evidence NOTE: This list of evidence is not all inclusive but is instead a list of possible examples.

6. Review Scale for Element 39

7. Desired Effect in the Students
The desired effect for element is 39 is “all students feel equally valued by the teacher because the teacher exhibits behaviors that demonstrate value and respect”. To receive an Innovating rating, the teacher must monitor and make accommodations so that every student in their classroom achieves this desired effect.

8. Task While watching the below video, answer these questions.
Identify three reasons why it’s good for teachers to have high expectations for them, regardless of their current level of achievement.
How do students feel about themselves and their relationship with their teacher when the teacher has high expectations for them?
Click here for the video.

9. Video Questions
Q1: What are three reasons why it’s good for teachers to have high expectations for students, regardless of their current level of achievement? A1: 1. students feel good about themselves; 2. students push themselves further because their teachers’ high expectations are a motivation; 3. students work harder Q2: How do students feel about themselves and their relationship with their teacher when the teacher has high expectations for them? A2: Students in the video explained they feel good about themselves, which is motivating for them because an adult cares. This happens when teachers have high expectations, believing that the students can achieve.

10. Task
While watching the video, identify how Dialogue Circles are used for a teacher to show respect for his/her students. Click here for the video. After watching the video you will be asked to identify the teacher and student evidence to rate the teacher on this element.

11. Video Question
Q: How can Dialogue Circles help teachers show respect for their students? A: Mrs. Smith used Dialogue Circles in several ways that helped her show that she values and respects all of her students. As the facilitator, her most important job is to listen, which is arguably the most basic form of respect. Mrs. Smith showed she valued her students by asking on a scale of 1 to 5 if the students were ready to learn that day. This communicates to her students that she cares about them and also gives her the opportunity to know where they are at and what they are struggling with, which provides her with information for today’s differentiation.

12. Task
On the next slide is the teacher and student evidence. What evidence did you see in the video and were able to document? Use this to rate the teacher as you walk through the next few slides.

13. Review Teacher and Student Evidence What did you see?

14. Review Teacher and Student Evidence What did we see?

15. Review Teacher and Student Evidence
Teacher Evidence
The teacher provides low expectancy students with nonverbal indications that they are valued and respected: makes eye contact, smiles, makes appropriate physical contact.
Ms. Smith actively listened to all students when they were sharing in the circle
Student Evidence
Students treat each other with respect.
Every student in the video was respectful. Near the end when the group of students were meeting about an incident at lunch, their discussion was respectful even though they were at odds with each other.

16. Review Scale for Element 39 to Rate the Teacher

17. How we Rated the Teacher
We rated this teacher as Innovating. Ms. Smith started the Dialogue Circle by giving the students a chance to be “mindful”. She instructed them to close their eyes but then said they can also stare at the floor. By giving students options so they can be “mindful” comfortably, she’s adjusting her lessons to show respect for every student. Every student had the opportunity to rate how they felt and then if they wanted to share out, they could do so. If they didn’t want to share, that was OK too. Again, Ms. Smith was showing respect for every student by giving them options so they were all comfortable with this potentially emotional activity. We don’t know which of her students would be considered “low expectancy” but she did show respect for all of her students, which would include all types.

18. Additional Marzano Resources
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Second, click on Resource Library and search for these resources.
Strategies for DQ9 E39
Read and Reflect DQ9 Changing Behavior

19. Additional Resources
Click here for Chapter 8 titled “Differentiated Instruction: High Expectations for All”. Figure 8.1 is a great way for you to determine how you treat low expectancy students differently. The rest of the chapter provides easy-to-implement strategies for fairly treating all students.
Click here for an article in TEACH Magazine about how to show students you respect them.
Click here for an article from Berkeley explaining four ways to show you respect students.
Click here to watch a video that lists 10 Things You Can Do to Show Respect for Your Students.
Click here for a blog titled “12 Ways to Avoid Student Humiliation”.

20. Is this element in your PGP? Then you need to…
Sign into Click on the Growth tab and then click on the Plans option. Open your current plan and fill out a new Reflection Log, answering the appropriate questions.
Decide how you will change your teaching as a result of viewing this module.
Execute your change, reflect on its impact, and fill out another Reflection Log in iObservation.

21. Further questions?
Here are resources in case you have further questions:
Your evaluator
Another evaluator on your campus
Your school’s Classroom Practice Mentor (CPM)