Student Persistence Cards

Use these cards to promote concentration, reflection, progress monitoring, grit, and many other subskills that can be categorized as "Inhibitory Control" or "Self-Awareness" in terms of executive function. As educators, we strive to foster the development of independence via metacognition in our students; oftentimes, we lack the tools to promote reflective self-monitoring outside of direct teacher check-ins. The implementation of this tool varies depending on the specific desired result. Two important guidelines are listed below: Introduce the tool when the student is experiencing a successful moment in the lesson. This will leave the student with a positive feeling toward the tool and he or she will be encouraged to use it again. Consider introducing the tool to the whole class as a recorded benchmark lesson in which you trigger awareness around the concept of self-monitoring performance. Alternatively, you might introduce the tool as part of a regular reflection time (if applicable f