A Hopeful Start Starting What do I know? What do I want to know? What can I Ready to assume? YES! Plan. What strategies will help? Are the guides or models I can reference? Is there a website or tool that could help me? What steps would help me get to the solution or complete the assignment? YES! keep going? NO. Stuck? NO. Ready to keep going? Attack. Try the assignment, problem, or NO. project. Record all the stepsYES! you take. Ready to keep going? Review/Reflect. Check my work against models. Write down ideas, notes, or visuals that I could use to help me with similar tasks, assignments, or projects. Talk to others and explain what I did in the question, assignment, or project. Get feedback from a classmate, mentor, or the teacher of a glow (one thing I did well) and a grow YES! Go back in the materials where you did understand then try again working on the tricky part. Identify the question or key elements of the task. Reword or rewrite what you think you have to do. Look at an example or model and look for a pattern or steps. Discuss your problem with a fellow student or mentor. Discuss what you know and talk to them to get ideas to fill in the gaps in your understanding. Take a break and get a drink of water, try a grounding technique and then try again. Try to start by using your resources such as: books, a Google Search, a video on YouTube, manipulatives, posters in the environment, or the teacher. Write out what you think is causing you to feel stuck. Break Ready to the task into steps. keepGuess going? and try one approach to seek feedback from a peer, a mentor, or teacher. NO. Alert the teacher and go through the steps you attempted to get unstuck.