success

[|Making Learning Stick]
I’ve just completed a book study on [|Made to Stick]by Chip Heath and Dan Heath which is a good read.

In the book Made to Stick, the Heath brothers share six key attributes: **S**implicity, **U**nexpectedness, **C**oncreteness, **C**redibility, **E**motions, and **S**tories – **SUCCESs** for presenting content in such a way that others will remember ‎it‎. ‎Whether you work with students, teachers, community members or all ‎of the above, these strategies can help you to more effectively share your ‎ideas and core content for long term understanding‎.‎

I created a guide for implement the success principles.**

__A Guide for Implementing the SUCCESs Principles__ ** “Increasing parental involvement for Success.”
 * || General || Teacher Specific ||
 * ** Simple ** || What is the central concept of my big idea?

|| Which standards will be addressed? When the standards are unpacked, what are the core concepts parents should understand? How will they know? Parents are a child's first and ongoing educators. They play a crucial role in helping their children learn. Children achieve more when schools and parents work together; and parents understand what the school is trying to achieve and how they can help. When we work together in partnership, students will succeed and achieve their goals. We must build a strategy for parental involvement and give advice and information to parents and teach them our culture about parental involvement for Success. || What is surprising about this idea?
 * ** Unexpected ** ||

The idea of partnership and success will provide them with a vision for their kids and direct their paths as to how to achieve their vision. || What is interesting about this idea? This idea of providing vision for their kids by goal setting and planning will help them foresee what their kids will become, and motivate them to actively get involved. We as teachers should identify goals, pinpoint actions and create a plan for their child || || By showing them a video about parental involvement and the benefits of partnership which is higher grades, regular attendance, better behavior, personal competence and better social skills. All these things lead to academic success. || What knowledge and skills will my parents need to demonstrate an understanding of this idea? Knowledge of acculturation, how the education system works in the US; learn English; to be able to converse with the teachers and understand the goals. ||
 * ** Concrete ** || How can I make this idea tangible?
 * ** Concrete ** || How can I make this idea tangible?
 * ** Credible ** || Why should others believe in my idea?

My principle when I deal with parents and students is “I want you to know how much I care before I care how much you know”. That is the message I want to convey. || How can I make the idea connect with prior knowledge my parents possess? What other credibility can I give the idea? Every one of them has different abilities, talents, personalities, and habits and we need to respect them and be appreciative of their culture. By tapping into the knowledge they have about their student and then tailor to individual need and differentiate. || Taking time to know their children as individuals and having a caring attitude creates confidence and thus relationship and trust is established over period of time || WIFFY-What’s in it for the parents? Why should they care? By explaining and showing them the real life connections and how parental involvement will lead to success, they will find it relevant and get motivated to work hard. || I will explain my own story as an immigrant from another country. In the beginning, I wasn’t aware of parental involvement, as in our country we give all authority to the teachers and they are held in high esteem. Later on, I knew that parental involvement and engagement leads to academic achievement, took input from teachers and today I feel both my children are successful. || How should they act on this idea? Why should they act? Actively get involved, take advice and input from teachers, homework help, read to the child, attend parent teacher conferences, attend programs and family nights, encourage child to participate.
 * ** Emotional ** || How can I make others care about my idea?
 * ** Story ** || Is there a story that illustrates my idea?

If they act now and lead their paths diligently success will automatically come and results will be apparent. ||