Step 1: Addressing the Challenge: Know what you want. See Points to Ponder in this online tutorial for your earlier answers to several of these questions.
- What do you want to add?
- What attributes do you want students in your classes to exhibit?
- What behaviors do you want students in your classes to exhibit?
Step 2: Recognize your Domains of Influence. Identify the domains in which you have influence in your professional and/or teaching life and those in which you do not have influence.
Step 3: Engage in the Art of Getting What You Want. Finish this sentence, "I want students who........"?
Step 4: Recognize the impact of 'collateral learning'. Make a list of the collateral learning opportunities your students bring to your classroom or the collateral learning opportunities that you can offer your students.
Step 5: Set the Stage for Shared Responsibility. What responsibilities does each have in your classroom?
- Instructor to student
- Student to instructor
- Student to student
- Student to self
Step 6: Monitor the Partnership. What assessment activities will you use to determine the success of your plans?
Step 7: Promote Self-Reflection. Using Discovery Statements and/or Intention Statements, develop and implement at least one assessment tool to assess your students’ response to your classroom management strategies.
