Dodie Ainslie's List: Teacher Resources

• Read aloud. Parents and teachers who read aloud and talk often to young children are promoting brain development.

• they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
• frequently check for understanding:
• “We see routines so strong that they run virtually without any involvement from the teacher. In fact, for many highly effective teachers, the measure of a well-executed routine is that it continues in the teacher’s absence.”
• Before they leave, all the kids fill out an “exit slip,
• great teachers tended to reflect on their performance and adapt accordingly.
• Those who initially scored high for “grit”—defined as perseverance and a passion for long-term goals, and measured using a short multiple-choice test—were 31 percent more likely than their less gritty peers to spur academic growth in their students.
• work harder and stay committed
• who scored high in “life satisfaction”
• more likely to perform well in the classroom
• their zest and enthusiasm may spread

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