1. Effective (Good)
Learner
What is that?

2. Effective (Good) Learner
-Use strategies and knows which strategies they are
using. (metacognitive)
-Get feedback
-Get a good example
-Problem solver
-Never give up on a challenge (believe in yourself)
-If you don’t know what to do, you ask for help (figure it
out) has ways to get out of the pit.
-Give ideas
-study
-Make connections
-set goals and reach for them
-Knows where they are, knows where they are going, and
how they will get there.
-makes good choices
-Participate in activities
-Look at criteria
-Their own teachers
-Can say what they learned.
-on task focus (you must know when you are not paying
attention)
-visualize your learning
-assessment capable (knows what they need to work on)
-ask questions
-Knows mistakes are okay, you learn from your mistakes.
Okay to say “I don’t know”
-Supports peers learning
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3. In the Pit
-What does this mean? You are stuck, in a problem, don’t know what to do.
-depressed, frustrated, angry, no hope, sad, stressed, irritated, scared.
-a little bit of struggle and challenge is good. The most learning is happening.
-When you are stuck what do you do?
-What do you do when you are in the pit?
-Have a plan.
-Ask for help.
-Use strategies
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4. Are you an effective learner?
See if you can see yourself in the mirror.
Say, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who
is the most effective learner of them
all?”