Week 3/4 Discussion- Growth Mindset

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  1. Hi everyone, Jackie Kennedy here and this week, my critical
  2. friend Emily and I talked about growth mindset.
  3. And the first question we discussed was how can we
  4. move from self awareness of mindsets, depositions, habit tubes and
  5. grits into action.
  6. And what we said is that those self assessments last
  7. week that we took and kind of talking about self
  8. assessments overall with our students can be really helpful in
  9. kind of finding out what our shortcomings are or things
  10. we are missing within ourselves.
  11. We want ourselves to be the best because we know
  12. that our students look up to us and we need
  13. to show them that we are committed to coming out
  14. of our own comfort zone to become the best person
  15. best teacher.
  16. We can be.
  17. The second question we discussed was what can we do
  18. to grow our own mindset mindsets while also fostering our
  19. students. And we said we first need to believe that
  20. our students can grow and can get better.
  21. I think sometimes we see our students test scores coming
  22. into our class and we kind of get our own
  23. idea of what they can or can't do.
  24. But I think believing in all of those students and
  25. that they all can make progress also creating a relationship
  26. with them.
  27. Um, so that throughout the year you kind of become
  28. invested too and hoping that they succeed in knowing that
  29. they can succeed.
  30. I also said, we also need to make sure we're
  31. not always just focusing on academics again, fostering that relationship
  32. at my old school.
  33. We actually once a week had character development time.
  34. So every month we focused on a different word and
  35. those words were things like perseverance.
  36. So talking all month long, how important perseverance is within
  37. all of our different academics and doing activities which involved
  38. those. The third question, what sort of strategies practices, reinforcements
  39. can make a difference when trying to foster mindsets and
  40. others. Um One thing I really liked at the beginning
  41. of the year at my school, new school with our
  42. curriculum is they really focus two or three weeks all
  43. about struggling and teaching our students that it's ok to
  44. struggle and it's actually better when you do struggle because
  45. most of the time you end up learning more um
  46. we all so focused on what does it look like
  47. when you struggle?
  48. Do you just give up or do you keep trying?
  49. And we did a lot of activities um that we're
  50. kind of focused on the students struggling, but it really
  51. showed me how they can keep doing it and it
  52. showed the students that it's ok um if they don't
  53. always know the right answer, as long as they keep
  54. trying and using that perseverance, is it possible that growth
  55. mindset can have a negative impact on learning growth or
  56. development? Um Emily and I kind of talked the most
  57. about this one just because we kind of went back
  58. and forth because reading it initially, you would think there
  59. is no way that growth mindset can have a negative
  60. impact, but then we kind of got to talking about
  61. when we teach our students about growth mindset being very
  62. diligent and saying to be realistic, we can't um teach
  63. them and Emily use the example of all the students
  64. thinking that they can become professional athletes who talked about
  65. as in the younger grades, it's probably okay that they
  66. all think they're going to become a soccer star, but
  67. really in middle school and the older grades kind of
  68. letting them believe that they can become better, they can
  69. maybe be on the high school team, but kind of
  70. having those realistic expectations is growth mindset.
  71. All a person needs to be successful and achieve their
  72. goals. We said no, that actually the most important is
  73. the follow through.
  74. So it's one thing to believe that you can become
  75. such so much better and have that perseverance, but that
  76. follow through is probably the most important or kind of
  77. key to it all.
  78. And the last question we talked about, what are your
  79. overall thoughts about growth mindset?
  80. Growth mindset based on the variety of perspectives you've explored
  81. in this unit.
  82. Um we said that growth mindset is kind of at
  83. the front of everything if our students don't think they
  84. can or they come in thinking that I used the
  85. example, one of my students came in telling me he
  86. was stupid and he can't do it right away.
  87. Um so first we need to foster that they can
  88. do it.
  89. We need to foster that growth mindset before they can
  90. become a good math student or before we can give
  91. them difficult problems and we need to teach them how
  92. to think differently about the way they see themselves.
  93. So growth mindset super important.
  94. And obviously we discussed it further this week and I
  95. just think I can't wait to continue talking about it
  96. with my students in class and kind of throughout this
  97. next week.