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If You Want Students to Believe, You Must Believe First

The Teaching ELA Podcast

English - July 10, 2022 08:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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How many times per day do you tell your students that if they believe in themselves they can achieve anything?

What you say is, “Hey if you believe in yourself, you can achieve anything!”

What they hear is: Blah! Blah! Blah!

In other words, they’re not buying what you’re selling:

You don’t believe it.Because you aren’t accomplishing your dreams.

In this episode, I break down why believing in yourself is the ultimate key to getting what you want. I challenge you to put your actions where your mouth is. Learn how to handle the uncomfortable and scary obstacles in your path and practice your skill of believing harder.

When we start believing in ourselves then students will take that cue and start believing in themselves.

I want you to stop talking about it and start doing something about it.

ELA Teacher Links

Teaching Emotional Intelligence: Short Stories for Teaching EmpathyShort Story Catalog at ELACOMMONCORELESSONPLANS.comPoetry Collections at ELACommonCoreLessonPlans.com