Relevance & Results
When educators fail to show students why a topic it relevant, why it matters, or why they should care, this is a recipe for diminished motivation and _____. Pg 115
What is "outright resistance"?
Education is essentially a _______ enterprise. Pg 116
What is "social"?
Learners are motivated by ________ _____ , not easy tasks.
Pg 117
What are achievable challenges?
Establishing schools, classrooms, rules, curricula, procedures, and behavioral norms based on limited and exclusionary standards that basically privilege the privileged will invariably alienate and eventually demotivate the ____. Pg 117
What is marginalized?
"Dog doo good god!", a sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards, is an example of this literary device.
What is a palindrome?
When students are choosing whether to allocate time and energy to an academic task, they need experiences of ____. Pg 115
Competence
Students tend to learn the fastest and most deeply from those with whom they have a ______. Pg 116
What is "connection"?
_______, don't remediate.
Pg 117
What is motivate?
When students are treated as "others" in a learning context, they may become _______ to what that context asks of them. Pg 118
What is "resistant"?
Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Name of the missing person.
Who is Bashful?
To stay motivated and reduce resistance, students need "_____ _____" as they go along. Pg 115
What are "little wins"?
As educators, we're not our students friends, we're not their parents, but we are in a relationship with them, and that means we need to take time to address the "________" stuff. Pg 116
What is “touchy-feely”?
Students may not say it, but they know at some level that it's _________ ________ to be given work that is beneath them. Pg 117
What is intellectually insulting?
As educators we need to be careful of carelessly or relentlessly advocating White, middle-class, heterosexual, English-speaking, Christian norms while failing to _____ and ______ students from other backgrounds. Pg 118
What are "solicit" and "honor"?
The number that comes next in this series: 7, 42, 210, 840, 2520, 5040, 5040,…….
What is 0?
When students ask "Why are we studying a particular topic?" and receive the response "Because you need to know this," this can show students that adult interests effectively trump youth ______?
What is "curiosity"?
The _________ of relationships can motivate students to invest in, rather than reject, their connections to others and to school. Pg 116
What is give-and-take?
Students who struggle academically do not need _____ as much as they need rigor and more varied and consistent support so they can develop and catch up. Pg 117
What is remediation?
Students tend to be most motivated to learn in settings where ______ and ______ are pervasive. Pg 117
What are "familiarity" and "safety"?
In Prokofiev's "symphonic fairy tale" Peter and the Wolf, the oboe represents this animal, which—spoiler alert—is eaten by the wolf after jumping out of the pond.
What is a duck?
"Teasers" are a great way for teachers to raise their students levels of concern & their ___. Pg 115
What is "interest"?
Sharing power, negotiating rules and procedures, being open to conversations in which students get to name their concerns and needs, or to actually apologize to our students when we have made a mistake can communicate to our students that the are agents in their relationships with us, not _______. Pg 117
What are objects?
Grouping and tracking __________ __________ into environments of lower expectations and reduced autonomy is the exact opposite of what students most need. Pg 117
Who are underperforming students?
To diminish the possibility that their resistance will take the form of __________, we need to be responsive to the variety of home cultures and the many insights, skills, and other contributions that spring from this variety. Pg 118
What is "underachievement"?
The percentage of your brain made of fat
What is 60%?