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Flip the Script
Breaking Down Barriers, Building Relationships, and Engaging Secondary Students
Are you burning out due to conflict with students? Do you lose sleep worrying about the students who are on a path toward dropping out? This book will help you learn how to understand, connect with, and engage students in deeper ways, changing the trajectories of their lives and yours. Discover strategies to change limiting beliefs in yourself so that you can help your students do the same.
Benefits
- Increase students’ enthusiasm and willingness to actively engage in class.
- Use examples from five highly effective teachers to deepen pedagogy and develop exceptional skills and mindsets.
- Approach student conflicts with authenticity and respect, using those experiences as opportunities to guide student growth.
- Reframe how students see themselves as learners and increase students’ self-efficacy and hope for the future, changing the trajectories of their lives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Building Trust and Connection
Chapter 2: Creating Safety
Chapter 3: Developing Authenticity
Chapter 4: Increasing Student Engagement
Chapter 5: Navigating Student Conflict and Behavior
Chapter 6: Flipping the Script
Appendix A: Activities to Help Students Reflect
Appendix B: Middle and High School Essay Writing Packets
Appendix C: Activities to Help Students Develop Social Emotional Competencies and Skills
Appendix D: Activities for the First Two Weeks of School
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1: Building Trust and Connection
- Reflecting on Building Trust
- Reflecting on What Conflict Feels Like
- Reflecting on What Judgment Feels Like
- Reflecting on Your Experience as an Adolescent
- Figure 1.1: Examining Assumptions About Students
- Figure 1.2: Examining Barriers to Seeing Students
- Building Relationships During the First Weeks of School
- Building Trust With Students
- Chapter 1 Book Study Questions
Chapter 2: Creating Safety
- Remembering Middle School and High School
- Figure 2.1: Remembering Who You Were as an Adolescent
- Figure 2.2: Reflecting on the Value of Growth
- Creating Safety in the Classroom
- Encouraging Student Reflection in the Classroom
- Chapter 2 Book Study Questions
Chapter 3: Developing Authenticity
- Reflecting on Authentic Leadership
- Figure 3.1: Authenticity Reflection Journal
- Figure 3.2: Noticing What It Feels Like to Be Authentic
- Figure 3.3: Being Authentic While Also Meeting Students’ Needs
- Reflecting on Teaching Authentically
- Recognizing What Authentic Teaching Feels Like
- Chapter 3 Book Study Questions
Chapter 4: Increasing Student Engagement
- Reflecting on Motivation
- Reflecting on Self-Efficacy, Hope, and Locus of Control
- Reflecting on Barriers to Engagement
- Figure 4.1: Reflecting on Motivation in School
- Figure 4.2: Anticipating, Accepting, and Addressing Barriers
- Connecting Class Content to Real Life
- Reflecting on Student Disengagement
- Chapter 4 Book Study Questions
Chapter 5: Navigating Student Conflict and Behavior
- Reflecting on Conflict
- Reflecting on Relationships and Motivation
- Figure 5.1: Cyclical Dynamic of Negative Teacher-Student Relationships
- Figure 5.2: Examining Core Beliefs
- Figure 5.3: Understanding and Transforming Your Triggers
- Redirecting Students
- Navigating Cell Phone Conflict
- Chapter 5 Book Study Questions
Chapter 6: Flipping the Script
- Reflecting on Our Scripts
- Figure 6.1: Flipping Our Own Scripts
- Figure 6.2: Developing Your Teacher Type Activity
- Using Intentional Scaffolding
- Supporting Students in Shifting Their Self-Concepts
- Chapter 6 Book Study Questions
Appendix A: Activities to Help Students Reflect
Appendix B: Middle and High School Essay Writing Packets
Appendix C: Activities to Help Students Develop Social Emotional Competencies and Skills
Appendix D: Activities for the First Two Weeks of School
