Every child has the right to experience success in school. And yet, given the range of abilities, intelligences, and learning preferences we encounter with any group of children, this goal can become quite a challenge. The “success” dimension of safety means that we assess the students that come to us and reach out to them, wherever they ere, instructionally. We set the bar at just the right height to challenge each student at a level at which success is, indeed, a possibility.
Use the following scale to rate each item:
1 – Always Do
2 – Sometimes Do
3 – Rarely Do
4 – Never Do
· I provide opportunities for success to each child in the classroom, encouraging growth from wherever they start.
· I assess student ability and adjust instruction to maintain an appropriate level of challenge for each.
· I offer students a variety of ways to demonstrate their knowledge, intelligence, and mastery.
· I attempt to build interpersonal skills, positive social behaviors, character skills, and resistance of failure.
· I attempt to accommodate a variety of interests, motivators, modality strengths, and learning preferences in my directions, instructions, and assignments.
· I attempt to accommodate tactile, kinesthetic, visual, verbal, and auditory learners.
· I make sure kids have ample opportunities to move around and help them learn to maintain an appropriate level of alertness without disturbing others.