"Trust between you and your students and between your students and their peers sets the stage for empowerment. Trust is created by a deliberate focus on our credibility and the 13 Behaviors of High Trust, both of which have been proven to be predictive of trust in an organization. Trust affects our ability to do everything else in the classroom."
- Empowering Instruction Field Guide page 22 -
In order to truly empower students to be leaders of their own learning, you have to know where you stand with trust in your classroom and with your students. After carefully considering the level of trust in your classroom and with your students, reflect on the following:
You have the ability to increase and deepen trusting relationships in your classrooms/with your students by practicing and modeling Trust Behaviors. How will you build trust where trust is low? In what ways can you take action to deepen teacher - student trust this week?
