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| First day of third and fifth grade
Maya and Dylan started their first day of third and fifth grade! I can't believe how fast time is going by. I am starting my 6th year here at Suisun Valley and Chris is starting his 3rd year at Vaca High. I look forward to seeing you and you families tonight.
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News: BEHAVIOR EXPECTATION
DUE (Your class rules are due today 8/19). This was in staff handbook :)
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We had an AMAZING first week of school
because you have done a great job working as a TEAM!! PICK UP ROUTINE: It went so well. Do you
know why??? Because you guys are AWESOME!! With a great TEAM every day we were
able to get our pick up process going very smoothly. I received a lot of
compliments from parents and wanted you to know that they appreciated all of
you!
Expectations vs. Standards (Good
Enough to Repeat)
Expectations should
not be confused with standards.
Standards are levels of achievement.
Teachers who practice positive
expectations will help their students reach high standards. It takes just as much energy to achieve
positive results as it does to achieve negative results. So why waste your energy to fail when the
same amount of energy can help you and your students achieve.
Key idea: Expectations of students will greatly
influence their achievement in school and in life.
There is absolutely
no research correlation between success and family background, race, national
origin, financial status, or even educational accomplishments. There is but one correlations with
success, and that it ATTITUDE!
Humans have a
success instinct. They want success.
They strive for success.
Knowing what you
can or cannot achieve is called expectation.
An expectation is what you believe will or will not happen.
Classic
Research on Expectations
Robert Rosenthal in
the 1960’s fed erroneous information to a group of South San Francisco
elementary teachers. In the spring of
the preceding year, the students at a school were pretested. The researches and administrators told the
teachers they were special teachers who were to be part of a special
experiment. They were told, “Based on a
pretest, we have identified 20 percent of your students who are special. They will be ‘spurters’ or ‘bloomers’ and are
a designated group of students of whom greater intellectual growth is
expected. The names were really selected
at random. The teachers were told to not
tell the students or the parents. “Thus
we expect and know that you will do extremely well with these special
students.” Eight months later all
students were tests again. The results
showed a significant gain in intellectual growth for the 20 percent who were designated
as special. The teachers were quite
surprised to learn that neither the teachers nor the students were
“special.” The expectations, however,
made all the difference.
Students tend to
learn as little or as much as their teachers expect. Teachers who set and communicate high
expectations to all their students obtain greater academic performance from
those students than teachers who set low expectations.
(Taken from The
First Days of School: How to Be an
Effective Teacher by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Here’s to high expectations for all students and ourselves! As a No Excuses School we have committed to teaching our expectations for the first 10 days of school.
- I HAVE NEW SCHOOL T-SHIRTS FOR YOU IN MY OFFICE. COME BY AND PICK ONE UP :)
Observable Fish Moments at SV:
I have really appreciated how everyone has volunteered
their own time (BEING there) to either help out a new staff member in such a short amount of time. Staff members
are really CHOOSING their attitude when there was SO much to do before Wednesday. Keep
smiling :) YOU are MAKING
someone’s day just by offering a helping hand or
just by listening. You make me proud!!
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