5 Tips for Maintaining High Expectations in Your Classroom

GotTechED the Podcast    

Episode #142: 5 Tips for Maintaining High Expectations in Your Classroom

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 142 called “5 Tips for Maintaining High Expectations in Your Classroom”. In this episode, we’ll share 5 tips that will get you thinking about high expectations and the best ways to keep them elevated, in a sustainable way. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

• Happy summer break!
• Prepping for Canva training with secretaries and admin

Segment 2: High Classroom Expectations

Recent teacher conversations about degradation of expectations in class and grade inflation

An IG post from @teachergoals that listed what high expectations should not be and what they should be

Should Not Be:

• No mistakes
• No second chances
• Moving fast

Should Be:

• Doing Challenging Things
• Doing It Until You Get It Right
• Working Hard
• Asking for Help
• Our own addition:  Must Show Growth

Specific Tips:

• Doing Challenging Things
• Elevate your assessment style.  Rather than asking “who was the 5th president of the US and what was his major accomplishment?”, ask “James Monroe was the 5th president and is credited by many for the Missouri compromise.  Explain this compromise and give 3 examples of how it impacted the United States over the next 50 years.”
• Challenging rubrics (not a checklist)
• EdTech:  Use ChatGPT for this to help get started.
• Doing It Until You Get It Right
• Don’t accept sub-par work.  Nick talk about the comic strip story.
• Develop a second chance policy that works for you.  Multiple versions of assessments are not as time consuming with ChatGPT.
• EdTech: This also requires monitoring student progress and feedback. Mote,