Is Your Instruction Habit Forming? 85FIGURE 5.1
Skills and Strategies for PersistingPersisting:
What to do whenI get stuckCelebrate smallaccomplishments.Brainstormalternatives.Senda textmessage.Askparents.Ask the teacher orother teachers for help.Talk with other students
who are working on the sameproblem or a similarproblem.Sleepon it.SearchtheInternet.Play a
game to getmy mindoff it.Ask myself,What doI alreadyknow
about this?Go backand rereadthe problem.Chunk it.Eat
something.Take awalk.Break the taskinto smallersteps.Try a
different way.Talk it overwith others.Leave itfor a while.Draw
on previous
experiences andknowledge.