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Help your students brainstorm and/or revise for their personal statements/UC Personal Insight Questions. I built this resources from research and attending UC Personal Insight Question workshops.

Includes: ➊ One Pager about One Pagers detailing the what, the why, the how, and how to further use One Pagers ➋ One Pager Criteria for Success to provide feedback and suggestions ➌ History One Pager examples

How to create one pagers + tips & tricks!

Questions to guide your students through a reflection of the semester for the class they have with you, school overall, and life outside the classroom. For each, it asks for 3 things they want to improve on, 2 things they're proud of, and 1 end goal they have for the year. I'll be collecting these and then returning them to students at the start of the next semester as a reminder of their goals. Inspired by @msdavison_ !

Help your students be organized by consistently tracking and preparing for their personal statements and resumes. This doc is built from a compilation of sources to provide students with a breadth of topics to be able to include.

A Google Slides and worksheet to help guide your students in making intentional goals for both academics and mental health. It has them reflect and then develop steps to help them act on their goal.

This is a master doc for students to research universities they're interested in. It takes into consideration everything from the admissions process to alumni outlook and concludes with students reflecting on the reasons they can and cannot see themselves attending here. I attach this doc as an assignment on Google Classroom, so that each student can edit directly. I also have my students add the Doc to a folder on their Google Drive labeled "College" where they store all things college related

This is the Google Slides I use to introduce the social sciences and history to my students. It includes excerpts from historians and various levels of questions to encourage students to inquire. I print out the One Pager (linked on slide 1) for students to take notes on.

Have students keep a running list of feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts for each historical figure and others affecting them. This will help them understand each figure on a deeper level by having them select the most significant info, provide an efficient study tool, and help them on exams by making educated guesses based on their deep understanding of historical figures. For IB History, my students complete this for each US president we study, and it’s kept in their interactive notebook

VST is a tool to help students break down prompts and remain relevant to the question being asked. V: Verb {what the prompt asks you to do} S: Skill {definition of the verb} T: Topic {key words from the prompt} Included in this Google Slides: 1. Directions for VST 2. Prompt outlines for the following verbs: analyze, discuss, examine, explain, how, why, compare and contrast, evaluate, to what extent 3. An outline of how to combine with the CER writing structure is also included This is a Google S

Help students improve their flow of writing with this master list of transitions that are organized for important historical concepts. In time, students will develop their own master list that becomes natural in their writing.

- My top 6 recommended study techniques for students! - Make sure to check out the rest of my store for additional One Pager and Connections resources - This handout was specifically built for history, but all techniques can be applied to any subject- This handout is * e d i t a b l e* so that it can be updated for your classroom specifically!

Use this system to track your students' accomplishments, so that when Letter of Rec season comes around, it's easy to transfer into a written doc. Tip & Trick: set a reminder in your phone to update once per month

Add this tool to your study guide to help your students effectively answer their study guide and narrow their focus of study to create an efficient study system.

To encourage student engagement in class and towards their studies, I reward them with stamps (I bought a personalized stamp on Etsy by @pixumdesigns!). Once they earn 10 stamps, they are able to submit it for a selected/suggested reward. Some of the most common things I reward stamps for: 1. Participation in class 2. Reaching a checkpoint during class (helps students learn how to pace their work while also holding them accountable) 3. Homework completion (as opposed to putting it into the grad

Packet that guides students through course selection while focusing on: 1. their interests 2. their academic glows and grows 3. their why/future goals 4. graduation requirements

This packet will guide you and your colleagues through the Student Work Analysis Protocol to help analyze a colleague's student work and provide meaningful and constructive feedback. It's also a great opportunity to spark productive conversations that further develop pedagogy and best practices.

Give this to a student to fill out when they ask for a letter of recommendation. It will help you narrow your focus of your letter in order to build upon what they've included without being repetitive. It should be given in addition to a more detailed brag sheet/resume, so that the process is more efficient for you.

A fun way to have your students review for a unit test or final by encouraging them to critically select the most significant terms and concepts. I have my students complete this in groups and then after collecting all of the responses, I turn it into a Google Forms. Students then vote for the MOST significant of all the provided terms/concepts for each letter.

Learn what the Ladder of Inference is and how to NOT climb it. This is a great tool for mental well-being and emotional intelligence.