How can we APPLY this to help students make better attributions?
1) Discuss attributions and their effects with students
2) Help students focus on controllable causes Emphasize failure can be overcome through effort
3) Help students understand their emotional reactions to success and failure
4) Consider alternative causes of success and failure Emphasize success can be attributed to "self"
5) Be mindful of inadvertent low-ability cues
An overview of attributional retraining, with a diagram of
how to make verbal corrections that help your students:
how to make verbal corrections that help your students:
GROUP ACTIVITIES
A great way to help your students make more accurate attributions is through well-organized group work- specifically activities that role-play classroom scenarios, or that ask students to work together and then discuss how they perceive the success or failure of the project with one another.
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A great way to help your students make more accurate attributions is through well-organized group work- specifically activities that role-play classroom scenarios, or that ask students to work together and then discuss how they perceive the success or failure of the project with one another.
DOWNLOAD and PRINT these Original Lesson Plans for Attributional Retraining:
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An exercise to learn more about your students'
attributions, designed by an ESL teacher trainer:
attributions, designed by an ESL teacher trainer:
Information on attributional retraining for college-transitioning
students, and the impact it has on their future success:
students, and the impact it has on their future success:
How much control do we really have? What factors do we control?
Take a look at this study on Supervisor/Subordinate Interaction.
How do you think this relates to the Power Distance Dimension of culture?
Are poor learner attributions innate, or due to "user error" in the classroom?
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Take a look at this study on Supervisor/Subordinate Interaction.
How do you think this relates to the Power Distance Dimension of culture?
Are poor learner attributions innate, or due to "user error" in the classroom?
Learn about how the Collectivist and Individualistic cultural
perspectives affect our treatment of students with disabilities.
Interact with other Teachers in our Forum: