How stuck are your students, how helpful is your classroom culture?

‘I can’t. I won’t’ – Your answers suggest that a fair few of your students are in the Lacks phase where they tend to give up easily with no idea about how to unstick themselves. You need to help them make the big leap to the Receives phase.

‘Show me’ or ‘Tell me’ – Your answers suggest that quite a few of your students are in the Receives phase where their mindset is becoming more neutral. They play it safe but need lots of attention from you. You need to help them develop greater independence in the Responds phase. Here students will need to develop their own unsticking strategies in order to overcome the need for adult support.

‘I’ll try’- Your answers suggest that quite a few of your students are in the Responds phase where they have realised that by using their own unstuck strategies they don’t need as much adult support. Now they need to realise that using this learning behaviour is a win for them; the Values phase. Here students will need to become curious about getting stuck and begin to use feedback effectively.

‘I see why’ – Your answers suggest that quite a few of your students are in the Values phase where they have realised that using this learning behaviour is a win for them. This means they are much more likely to retain this behaviour and use it in the future. Now you need to move more of your students into this key phase and nudge the other students up to the Organises phase. Here, because they value the skill they become able to organise themselves to put it to good use.

‘I’ll make sure I do’ – Your answers suggest that quite a few of your students are in the Organises phase where they not only see the value of the skill but they also organise themselves to use it effectively. Now you need to move all your students to the Organises phase. They are almost there as a determined unsticker.

You have made a good start on celebrating learning struggles in your classroom. An interest in being stuck and that there is nothing to fear about it is probably visible around your classroom.

Your answers suggest that you are using a coaching approach so that you use questions to nudge students to get unstuck.

You appear to have started infusing a positive attitude to being stuck into your lessons. You could try ensuring students become stuck through more challenging activities and make periods of reflection and review part of every lesson.

Your answers suggest that you have already made a good start on devolving more responsibility for learning to your students. You could model both being stuck and getting unstuck, and do more asking rather than telling to encourage more self reliance.