2. This Week’s Agenda Chapter Three Expectations=Confidence The Pygmalion Effect Faith in Yourself Confront the Brutal Facts Courage to Teach
3. Expect Your Students to Get There I can help my students. Expectation: What we believe about our teaching situation, our ability to handle it, and what we believe is important It is important to help my students.
4. The Stockdale Paradox “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” ~Admiral Jim Stockdale as shared in Good to Great by Jim Collins
7. Confronting the Brutal Facts Try to look at your classroom with the same lens as if you were looking at someone else’s. Use video. Critiquing yourself is sometimes easier when you are watching it on screen. Try the five whys Give yourself some credit. Be real. Be curious.
