1. Activity #5 Sharpening Your Saw:
Addressing Student Anxiety about “Doing School”
How do I “ do school” successfully?
Just as you considered information you needed to survive the first days of school, your students also need special knowledge and skills to be successful in starting the year. Imagine you are walking down the hall of your school in the first week and you hear teacher voices declaiming each of the several statements below. What ARE these statements? Take a few minutes and consider how you might organize these statements into three different groups, according to how they are alike in some way. Just drag each statement into a box below. What might be a name for each of your categories?
Category #1
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Category #2
Category #3 * * *