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Creative Thinking and a Growth Mindset

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Julie South

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Creative Thinking Growth Mindset

Julie South

What are these exactly?

Relationship

What is creative thinking?

Looking at problems and solutions with a new perspective

Creative Thinking

What is a growth mindset?

Growth

Mindset

  • Concept developed by Carol Dweck

  • Believing that your most basic abilities can be developed with dedication and hard work

How are these related?

The

Relationship

  • Students are conditioned to get the "right" or "wrong" answer

  • They are afraid to fail, so they rely on past solutions

Brain-Based Learning

Importance

Studies in neuroscience and psychology suggest that the human brain physically changes/grows when it learns

Success isn't just about who is the most intelligent, works the hardest, listens best, or reads the most

We have to encourage their brains to grow through creative thinking!

Brain

Practice

Students are afraid to think about problems creatively for fear of failure

But...

Creative thinking and problem solving is also necessary outside the classroom.

We are trying to prepare them for jobs that may not even exist today

Also...

"I already have so much to do..."

How?

Embrace

Failure

Safe

Environment

Vary Your Assessments

Assessment

  • Grade with "not yet"
  • Use sketchnotes to take notes
  • Give other options to show you what they learned to build confidence

Have them self-evaluate

Self

Assessment

Before completion:

  • Is this your best work?
  • What should your grade be?

After completion:

  • Is this grade what you deserve?
  • What can you do to improve next time?

If a student says they can't do something, they don't understand, etc. always respond with YET!

Verbal

Cues

Use Pens, Not Pencils

Explain that pencils allow you to erase mistakes, but mistakes are okay. They are part of the process.

Use

Pens

Grit

Grit

Developed by

Angela Duckworth

Grit > Intelligence/Talent

Help students develop a goal area for grit

Relationships are Key

If they genuinely think you care about them as a person, they will feel safer failing

Relationships

Find out what they are into

Who?

  • Don't be afraid to spend a couple of minutes discussing their interests

  • Go to events they may be involved in

  • https://sites.google.com/view/jsouthclass/home

Let them get to know you

Me?

Vary Questions

  • Avoid just using Google-able questions
  • Ask "what if" questions
  • Give them time to reflect (what did I do well, how can I improve, etc.)
  • Remember Bloom's Taxonomy

Re-Question

Model

Be the example

It is okay for students to see you fail

Fail

Admit when you fail in the classroom

Share failures outside the classroom

Be Creative!

  • We tend to teach the way WE learn best

  • It doesn't have to be Disney World everyday

  • Be a pirate - beg, borrow and steal ideas from others

Create

Twitter

https://twitter.com/home

Google Advanced Search

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Open Source Content

Arrrggg

Have Fun!

  • Act like you love every single thing you teach, even if you don't.

  • Help them remember the JOY of learning - sing songs, read to them, etc.

Fun

The Realities of Teaching

Get Real

Hard to reach students

Little

Johnny

  • Do your best to create relationships. Find ONE way to connect with them.
  • Don't take it personally when a student misbehaves
  • Have procedures in place, not a ton of rules
  • Don't let them disrupt the learning of others
  • Use your resources (RTI2B, for example)

Protect your personal time

My

Time

  • Do your best to leave work at work
  • Don't over do it. Start by sprinkling
  • Remember to be a pirate