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16. Raise the bar.
Up the ante. Kick it up a notch. Set a deadline and stick to it. Is teaching your job, or are you a professional?
Oh. You thought I was talking about raising the bar for your students. Well, yeah, raise the bar for them, too. That's what we do all the time as we build their understanding of more and more complicated ideas and content.
But if we're going to apply this saying to the work you ask your students to do, then please remember: when you raise the bar in a game of limbo, you make it easier to get under. So every now and then, maybe you should raise the bar for the wiggle under and not the vault over.
And how about this: if we change the spelling of raise, we totally change the nature of the game: raze the bar. What would that look like in your classroom?
Up the ante. Kick it up a notch. Set a deadline and stick to it. Is teaching your job, or are you a professional?
Oh. You thought I was talking about raising the bar for your students. Well, yeah, raise the bar for them, too. That's what we do all the time as we build their understanding of more and more complicated ideas and content.
But if we're going to apply this saying to the work you ask your students to do, then please remember: when you raise the bar in a game of limbo, you make it easier to get under. So every now and then, maybe you should raise the bar for the wiggle under and not the vault over.
And how about this: if we change the spelling of raise, we totally change the nature of the game: raze the bar. What would that look like in your classroom?
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