Tip 47

Your Experiences Are the Baseline. Their Experience Counts More.

Use student experiences, interests, and contexts as the starting point for relevance rather than assuming your baseline is universal.

Finishing wellStudent relationships · Planning time7-minute read

Try this tomorrow

Ask students what they know, where they have encountered the concept, and what examples feel familiar. Use one response to shape the lesson.

Use this with a mentor or team

Whose experience is being treated as normal in the examples you chose?

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