Change Your Language, Empower Your Students

In this episode, Chrissy shares information about how teacher mindsets and language influence students’ success in math, including:

• an example from her own childhood showing the negative impact of deficit language

• why it’s important we use empowering language in the classroom and how our beliefs impact student outcomes

• Robert Rosenthal’s 1964 experiment showing the impact of teachers’ beliefs on student performance

• two illustrations of how teachers’ beliefs become a self fulfilling prophecy, one positive and one negative

• 12 deficit-based statements and how they can be rewritten using asset-based language

Resource Links:

• Deficit vs. Asset-Based Language Chart - included as part of the Increase Access Resource Bundle