EffortAcademic Success

1. Effort=Academic Success Engaging strategies for student self-evaluation and metacognition in the K-6th classroom

2. Goals Interactive strategies to engage students in developing their academic English and higher-level thinking skills Interactive lessons to link effort with success Setting short and long term English proficiency goals with our students teaching student self-evaluation of effort using a rubric

3. What do you need to be successful in acquiring a language?

4. How do students get to metacognition? Student ownership of learning Explicit teaching of higher level thinking skills Are there additional essential components?

5. Linking effort to success

7. The light bulb Inductive part to whole reasoning Predictions, conclusions and synthesizing information

8. English Language Acquisition Demystifying the process What is the goal?

10. Persistence, Perseverance and EFFORT What does it look like? What does it feel like? What does is sound like?

11. Student Self-Reflection What does that look like? Using the rubric with students�.

13. Analogous Connections� Building bridges to link effort with success

15. Conclusions Explicit teaching metacognitive skills and language goals will lead to�.. Academic Success!