Here are 10 simple teaching strategies that you can use to keep your struggling students working so they can become more independent workers. 1. Teaching Strategies: Fight the Urge to Tell Students the Answer As mentioned earlier, sometimes it is just easier to give the struggling student the answer rather than taking the time to give them the tools to find the answer themselves. However, as a teacher, this is something you should NOT do, ever. It is your job to teach the student and give them the tools that they will be able to take with them for the rest of their lives. This means fighting the urge to give them the answer just to save you time with your other students. 2. Give Students Time to Think of the Answer Research has shown that teachers, on average, only wait 1.5 seconds between asking students a question and calling upon a student to answer the question. If teachers would give students just a few seconds more to really think about their answer, they would probably come up with something really great. 3. Allow Students to Explain Their Answer How many times have you asked a student a question to repeatedly get the answer, “I don’t know”? Encourage students to come up with an answer (even if it’s incorrect). Teach them how to explain to you how they got their answer. Once you find out how they got their answer, then it will be easier for you to figure out what they are doing wrong. Require that all students must come up with an answer and be able to explain how they got it. 4. Write Down All Directions Struggling students usually have a hard time paying attention and remembering things. If you give them oral directions, chances are they are going to forget them, which means they will struggle on knowing what to do next. Make sure that you always write down everything that you want the students to do on the front board, so there are no excuses from any student, and they always have a resource that they can refer to. 5. Teach Perseverance Teach students that when the going gets tough, they must keep on working. This means when they get stuck on a question, they need to try out a few different strategies until they get it. A simple way to do this is to keep a few tips and strategies listed somewhere in the classroom where all students are able to refer to it, preferably on a wall where all students can see it from their desks. 6. Teach Time-Management Skills Struggling students have a hard managing their time and their daily tasks because oftentimes, it feels overwhelming to them. Teach students how to manage their time and their tasks by having them write down their whole schedule for one day. Then, have students estimate how long they think it will take them to do each task that they listed. Go over the list and discuss how much time should be spent on each task. This activity will help them understand that time-management skills are essential, and that they must take ownership of their learning in order to keep them from struggling in school. 7. Take it One Task at a Time Sometimes the easiest way for a struggling student to understand a concept better is to take it one question at a time. If you find that you have many struggling students, then this is the best option for the whole group. For example, if students are doing small group work, instead of giving them a list of 10 questions to answer together all at once, have them answer one question at a time, and after each question, have them regroup as a whole group before allowing them to go onto the next question. 8. Ask Questions that Require Students to Think Struggling students need to practice thinking on their own. Take the time to ask questions that make students have to think about their answer. Teach them how to make inferences and not just blurt out any answer that comes to mind. The more they take the time to think about their answers, the easier time they will have when trying to come up with solutions to the answer. 9. Yield the Chronic Hand Raisers Students who are having a hard time often get the urge to raise their hands and ask for help for every single question. To stop this from happening, you need to come up with a strategy that will allow students to move on when they get stuck on a question. Some teachers find that sticky notes or red and green flip cards are an effective technique. Other teachers find that limiting the number of times a student is allowed to ask a question for each lesson works well too. 10. Give Students Encouragement Effective teachers encourage students and motivate them to do well in school. They take the time to praise them and tell them that they can do anything when they put their mind to it. Be that teacher, the teacher that tells them they can do it! Do you have any strategies that work well with your struggling students? If so, please share your ideas in the comment section below, we would love to hear what works for you and your students.

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Strategies can be taught to help students overcome these obstacles. However, the fact that some students fail does not mean that they cannot succeed in life. On the contrary, history offers us many examples of people who succeeded even without straight As.

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what kind of struggle ?, may i know so that we can talk about more

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