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One of my biggest take-aways is to make sure that we are celebrating growth with our students. This will be important to do throughout the school year. Doing this will help their growth mindset.

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As an instructional coach I feel like I have a great opportunity to implement many of the things that I have learned throughout this course thus far. One way to do this is to approach my principal with some of the ideas so that she is on board. This is something that I have actually done already and she is very interested in implementing some of this into our back to school week with staff. We also have weekly collaboration meetings where this can be apart of our agenda.

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My big take away from this week is to celebrate with my students! Celebrate everything! The big things, the small things, the mistakes and the growth! By celebrating it will help build a strong community and it will help with teaching them growth mindset.

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On a post I responded on from the group someone said they make a "fridge" bulletin board in their classroom. They allow students to hang their best work on "the fridge" for everyone to see! I love this idea and definitely want to do something like it in my classroom next year. I love that it gives the students the choice of what they want to share with everyone.

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I cant get away from the 7 ways to talk to students about negative self talk. One of my biggest challenges with my students is their self esteem and self belief. I have several students who would never say anything positive about themselves and I really did not have any tools to combat that. that list gave me somewhere to start

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I want to develop some go to ways of trying to get students to recognize the positives. I also think implementing recognizing the personal victories or positivies like the article in Part 11. Having an exit slip to have kids recognize the things that they did really well. I want to try to have students see the victories in their work because if they regonize the positive and they are more open to improving in the places where they can improve. Failure is easier to accept when there were positives that got you there

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Personal growth is the most important type of growth! Each student has a different set of skills and knowledge and has room to grow. Wherever the growing happens, needs to be personal and celebrated!

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Students need to feel proud of their hard work. We need to celebrate their accomplishments. This is really important for their confidence. We also can get inspired by our peers and our students successes.

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I was a camp counselor for 3 summers and at the end of each week we were expected to do paper plate awards for each camper. It was literally a paper plate with an award written on it with marker, such as "The responsible camper award" or "The kayak king" these awards meant so much to the kids as it showed them that we noticed when they were working hard or doing the right thing at camp. I want to incorporate paper plate awards to my classroom to celebrate success.

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My biggest take away this week is making sure I'm encouraging and celebrating growth throughout the year in all of my students. This may be academic growth, or behavioral... but I think it's important that I pay attention to the growth I'm seeing in my student's and point it out to them.

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I think the idea of having some sort of ticket to give students when I see them making growth, or have a sort of class celebration to encourage growth would be a good thing for me to try to do in my class.

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My biggest take away was to make sure your celebration has more purpose than just wrapping up a unit. Focus on student growth and help them find ways to best display this.

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The ideas from the UofM TED Talk is what I would like to implement in my classroom. I want the reminder that famous revolutionaries were not always the way we know them. They started as kids with a dream. I want to give my students opportunities to learn how to go against the grain, think outside of the box, etc. I can use figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, etc. as examples for my students.

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This week I learned how important it is to celebrate your students learning throughout the year. This can be done after projects or each day. It is also important for students to learn from each other.

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Starting in the fall I want to implement the celebrating of learning each day.  We will draw one students name each day and celebrate a success or struggle they got through each day.

I also want to implement students teaching each other. With our new math curriculum it would be great for students to record themselves teaching the new math strategies so parents and students can watch and learn from home!

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My biggest take away is the "I am" statements. It is such a universal strategy that can empower students in many areas. Also the importance of celebrating milestones in each students learning, as a way to praise the process.

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As a way to implement the "I am" statements into my 7th grade math class, I think it would be great to start the year writing them in the front of their math notebook. [Examples: "I am capable," "I can solve this problem," "I can work through this struggle."]. Having it in the front of their notebooks, its an easy thing for them to look back on when they need the boost.

I also really liked the idea of students creating videos of them reteaching the material. I will be doing that next school year.

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My biggest take-away this week is "Your Shining Moment." We need to allow our students to celebrate themselves and their accomplishments. Hard work, effort and dedication are all reasons to celebrate. Also the importance of having students work together in groups. It gives them an opportunity to help each other. It builds community in the classroom and meaningful discussion about class work.

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Since I basically do small group instruction most of the day with several groups I will need to pick one group, to start off with, to implement "Your Shining Moment." I think I will have one student a week share a celebration or a mistake they learned from during that week.
I will also implement table/group work so they can try to figure problems and class assignments out together.

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I really like the "Shinning Moments" reflection. This is something that I would love to incorporate in my classroom next school year. I hope to use multiple modes of self reflection while celebrating successes in my classroom.

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I want to brainstorm the shinning moments idea some more so that I can be prepared to use it in my classroom. I also would like to research peer review practices for the classroom so I can help all students be successful and benefit from these practices.

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-Making sure I create a space to celebrate growth and success in my room for next year.
-Showing my students the revolutionary video or something similar.
-Anyone of our kids (or us for that matter) could be those revolutionaries.

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I really want to create a space in my room for those celebrations. I can encourage us to do more school wide celebrations, but a lot of that is unfortunately out of my control. What I can control is how and the frequency of celebrating growth and success in my own class.

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One of my biggest take a-ways is to celebrate what is going well with one another in my class! I love to hear student reflection on what they think went well for a lesson! Also, I am really going to work on student to student compliments. I think changing our words or way of thinking can make a life long impact. One other thing is I will for sure use the suggested cheers! I think I may make a list of these to let students visually choose from, because in Kindergarten, they love this kind of silly stuff!

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There are several posters I would like to print out, I am very visual, so I like to hang up things to remind me and my students of our goals. For sure I will start with the cheers and then positive lion poster! Also, I think this is a concept that needs to be introduced at the beginning of the year. So I am going to incorporate this is in my SEL lessons!

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My biggest take-aways are to be intentional about celebrations and how they are done. Relationships with students will provide an atmosphere where they can be comfortable having a growth mindset.

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My thoughts were swirling around the idea of celebrations the most this week. I am moving up a grade next year to third grade. I will be teaching social studies to all the third graders so I have already started thinking about how I can celebrate the learning of each third grade class once they have completed each unit. Along with that thinking also thinking on how I can invite individuals outside of our school community to appreciate the work of the third graders!

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The biggest thing that stuck with me this week and what I would like to keep getting better at is being open about my emotions and feelings. At the end of the school year, I was having a bad day and I told my para I needed to change my attitude. She asked me why I wasn't aloud to feel the way I was feeling. That I should just be open with my students. That along with the articles and videos from this week will stick with me. It is okay for me to have feelings, I just need to be honest about them so I can handle them in a healthy way.

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My biggest take away from this week was putting the learning in the hands of the students. I try to do this in some ways in my classroom, but there is so much more I can do! I think the better community you build from the beginning of the year of students doing this you could see great results. Students can learn so much from each other and so much by teaching each other. The teacher's role will always be important, but having learning be more of a community experience would really bring up lots of students.

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I think that I could implement the students learning by doing more critiques in my room. By making critiques and sharing their struggles and success in their art students will be lifting each other up. It would also create a community where students see and feel what other students are doing and can learn from that. I also think it would be great to have a more daily way to celebrate the successes in the room.

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I had several this week.
My bigger ones were:
~ to make sure we are celebrating all kinds of growth in the classroom
~to have the kids talk and assess together which will build the community of learners.

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I plan on implementing a class mantra based on the 'I am..." video that we will start the day with. Not sure what that is yet- but excited about that.
I also plan on group discussions based on 1-2 homework questions. That is a great way to start math and begin to get more math conversations going within my room. I also think that will help me be strategic with teaching the kids how to have disagreements and discussions that are respectful and allow all to have a chance to speak. Very much looking forward to this!!

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I had two big take away from this week:
The first is that it is important to celebrate the growth and successes of our students along the way. This will help encourage and motivate our students to do their best and keep trying.
The second is to have our students be the teachers. After teaching a lesson we need to allow time for students to reflect and process with each other about what they just learned. I think students sometimes need to hear the ideas of peers to really understand what I need them to learn.

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I really liked the video of the 3rd grade classroom with the students recording themselves reteaching the lesson. Right after watching the video I emailed my team with my ideas of how I want to implement it. I love the thought of students explaining how they understood the lesson and also showing examples of their thinking. I feel that this tool could be used in so many ways. I would make the videos available to parents so they understood what we are learning. I also think students who miss school could watch the videos so they knew what we were doing. Putting students in charge is going to be so powerful in my classroom!

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This week I was able to reflect on opportunities to give my student's more responsibility in their learning. I tend to have a hard time giving them that control at times but all of the information this week was the push I needed to get back to that place of student-lead learning. It becomes engaging and enjoyable to learn from their peers.

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I want to make a chart with stems or sentence starters to hang in my room. I think it would be helpful for my students to have this visual and push them in the right direction when doing some peer coaching/teaching.

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One of my big take aways from this week is to celebrate with my students all of the victories along the way. Not only will this help them take charge of their learning it will allow them some ownership along the way that will make them want to do their best.

Lastly, to have students assess each other in the classroom. It is important that students are assessing each other and learning and growing from each other.

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I use to do a "Proud Wall" in my classroom and would like to implement that again somehow. I just need to figure out a way to get all students involved in hanging something they are proud of that doesn't have to be a perfect score. Students often thought unless they got an A on an assignment they couldn't hang anything. I tried to stress to them that even if it's something you got a C on but worked super hard on and put a lot of time into that is still something to be proud of.

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My biggest take away from this module was celebrating my students process of learning, not just their end goal. I also really liked the idea of students celebrating each others successes.

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I want to implement what I learned by being more conscious of my students entire learning process. As I do formative assessments I would like to find smaller ways to celebrate little, step-by-step accomplishments, not just mastery of a concept.

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My biggest take-away was the video on students teaching what they had just learned. I think when they do this not only do they deepen their learning but may be able to explain their learning in a way a peer will now make a connection with. I also think it is very motivating when they know this will be something they get to do at the end of a lesson.

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I am going have my students create videos after a lesson to deepen learning, use to teach other students a concept, and for my students to view themselves while looking at the rubric of the assignment to reflect on their work before final grading. I will not use this every time, but when opportunities arise for purposeful use.  My students currently  use to video tape their reading out loud. When they play it back and watch themselves, after the initial silliness of seeing/hearing their recording, they are able to see areas of growth and where they need to further practice.  I look forward to expanding this to other topics.

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- Students who are unconventional learners need to be empowered by your ability as the teacher to reach all learner types in your classroom.
- Students can learn best by teaching others and giving peer feedback and assessing each other.
- Students must see themselves capable of achieving success as well as recognizing the success of others.

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Using my new cheating policy which forces cheaters to reflect on their action and understand the consequence behind it and plan to change it.
Find more ways to get my students work out for the world to see.
Allow students to use peer feedback and assessing to understand content and improve skills.

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My main take-aways from this module include the ideas of peer assessment, and remembering to celebrate individual growth, rather than just mastery or good grades. I try celebrating growth already quite a bit with the messages and environment I try very hard to foster in my classroom, but it is important to be mindful of what we are celebrating so we don't lose track of the fact that so many students are at different levels.

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I hope to implement what I learned about peer assessment by blending that with a concept I read about in a previous module of "pairs & squares." My idea is that during guided practice time on the day an assignment was actually assigned, students would get in their pairs and work together on the assignment. Then the next day at the beginning of class, the pairs would all get in their squares to compare work and strategies on what is hopefully their completed work.

As for celebrating individual growth, I had previously talked about the idea of how I already celebrate mastery on unit tests with stars that students get to put up on a drawing of a fridge door I had an art teacher make for me (looks pretty good), as "fridge worthy." Now, rather than just for mastery, I could also have students put up a star for other accomplishments, like getting their best test score of the year for example.

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My biggest take away is celebrating students success in the classroom... small or big! Help students see their growth and utilize students being the teachers. If a student has mastered something have that student share what works well for them.

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I plan to talk to the EL team at my school to make sure we are celebrating growth. I know we are wanting to focus on growth, but what things next year can we do to make sure we actually celebrate and share the success with our students.

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One of my take aways from this module is to remain flexible in teaching. Everything will not always go as planned and it's important to not let that get in the way of good lesson planning.

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Now that we are on summer break from school, I have a list of goals that I would like to accomplish. One of these is to take a serious look at the sequence of the lessons I present throughout the school year and determine if there are any adjustments that need to be made. I think this is the perfect time to slowly go through and eliminate any that were not engaging for students.

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Most all of these resources spoke to me again about classroom culture and respecting the students. Whether it's giving students the power to assess their own / each other's learning, or creating a culture of leaders, I think it is critical for us as educators to create the right climate for our students to achieve through Growth Mindset.

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I really resonated with the video where the math teacher has students explaining how they worked through problems on their homework as a group. Math and music theory are very closely related, and I would love to do something similar during my music theory worktime.