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I think my biggest take away from this module was the idea of actually explaining how mastery and learning take serious work and practice. Doing things like talking to your students about this, challenging them to keep this in mind when they feel challenged and talking about neuroplasticity can help them to take ownership of their learning. If students are able to get into this habit early it would be so beneficial to them throughout their education and the rest of their lives.

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My biggest take away from this module was the need for hands on experiences for student learning. As I stated above, creating this type of learning environment for my students makes me a little nervous, but I feel like we all could practice having a growth mindset through the process. :) My hope is to be able to set up a couple of lessons with learning centers to try in the fall and then go from there. Through the process I hope to be able to tell my students we haven't figured out the right way to do these "yet".

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When I think about the ideas of Week #5, my biggest take away focuses on teaching students that effort will need to be used in order to reach mastery. With our current culture, students are used to getting responses quickly and easily. Sometimes it will take time and effort for them to achieve mastery. I feel like this is easier for students in math than in English. They don't want to put that time in. As students get older, they will especially need some support in this. Next year, I will be teaching high school English. I am starting to think about how I can encourage them to apply effort so they can achieve mastery.

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My biggest takeaway was thinking about thinking and keeping the students engaged and active. Learning about growth mindset has shown me that I need to really be thinking all the time- I need to be thinking about my thinking to teach them to do the same. There is a lot of intention as well with planning all the movement and discussions. I would think it will eventually become easier- but this next year will take some effort and work on my part to implement this.

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My biggest take-away is the importance of hands-on, problem solving learning.  I really found it meaningful when one article talked about the positive effects of doodling or fidgeting.  Often I interrupt that behavior in my classroom for fear of distraction, when in reality we do it as adults during meetings.  I am going to work on this as the year starts in the fall.  I also saw the importance of hands-on learning where students are doing, creating or discovering.

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I think my biggest take away is that creating a growth mindset classroom takes intention and planning. I have been thinking about more ways to structure discussion in my classroom where all voices are accountable. I have also been thinking of ways I can focus less on making students "happy" and more on coaching them correctly during hard times. Sometimes it's easy for me to think that I know what's best and can fly by the seat of my pants a bit, but in reality, intentional grouping, planning, and strategies really make the difference for learning and growth mindset reinforcement.

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My biggest take a way was that my students need to be involved learners. They need to be an active part to the lesson and not just listening to the material. I need to ask open ended questions so they need to think about their answers and not just respond with a yes or no. Growth Mindset is a classroom style that is also a life style which will be beneficial to all.

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The biggest take away that I had this week was how well Growth Mindset fits into an elementary art classroom. The ideas this week about creating hands on learning and giving students time to fail got me excited to use the great tool of creating art to teach these things.  Because art is such a personal to each student and their progress is so visible I think it is a great place for them to see their mistakes and learn from them.  They should be able to now only know it in their head, but see it.

The biggest thing I saw that I would need to start doing would be to add more discussion and critique in the art making process.  By doing this it will help students grow their minds and be able to share about what their goals are and where they want to grow.

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A couple important nuggets of information:

1. That students are involved in learning at that teachers can foster learning in empowering ways in the classroom. Classroom discussions, think-pair-share, and hands on learning are very powerful. They allow students to be engaged and learn from their peers.

2. There are many different learning styles. I think as teachers, it is important we are making sure we are teaching for our students. How do our students best learn? Am i teaching in a way that my students will benefit from.

3. It is important to give time for students to reflect. Students need to take time to process their learning and know their strengths/ weaknesses.

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This week had several refreshing reminders but I would say the biggest take away is to keep those little hands busy. Active learning has become the trend and seems to work well with "today's busy kids". The more they can manipulate, they more they will remember. One other important take away from this week is to let student's have the floor and let their voice be heard. I have a colleague who swears by the statement that if the teacher is doing more talking than the kids, they aren't learning as much as they could be. I love hearing her so this and have found it to be so true!

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My biggest take away this week was making sure that students are involved in the learning. Make sure there are engaging activities and opportunities for kids to talk. When planning activities make sure there is voice and choice for students! All of these things will help their brains and develop their growth mindset and power of yet.

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My biggest take away from this module is that students need a variety of ways to learn and a variety of ways to show their learning. One size does not fit all. They need to be hands on and talking to be engaged. There may be times that they can sit and listen to a lecture, but that should not be our only way of teaching. If students can have choice in how they demonstrate their learning, that is even better. Hands on learning and assessments are best!

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My biggest takeaway is to try and find more ways for students to work on projects or activities rather than just taking notes or listening to a lecture. Even if I do "lecture," I prefer to make it more of a discussion with my students. I have students explain how to work through a problem, or show it up on the board rather than just me talking through it. This is better, I think, but I could still improve by finding more hands on activities or work for students to do.

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My biggest take away this week is busy hands,  busy brains. I just keep thinking about how important it is for all learning to have time for hands on activities. It is something I definitely plan to incorporate even more next year. I truly believe that it helps students engagement, motor skills and is a great time to teach/support social skills.

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This week my biggest take aways are:

Student voice: Make sure that not only I incorporate student voice in my classroom but also remember to d what I can to provide an environment where students can lead resulting in a majority student-led classroom environment.

Meaningful Activities: When providing hands-on activities make sure they are meaningful and help extend or enhance the learning targets in my classroom.

Collaborate: I am not an expert in everything. I need to make sure I am reaching out and accepting the help and expertise of other professionals in my building/district/PLN (like Twitter).

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My biggest take away this week is busy hands, busy brains. I am a firm believer that hands on activities are one of the best ways for students to learn. It holds student engagement, builds fine motor skills, it's fun so students don't get bored, and helps students retain what they have learned.

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The thing that really hit home for me this week is the visual giving options and ideas to get students sharing. As a math teacher, I have the same group of students raising their hands to answer the questions. I will definitely be putting that visual to use next year to see if my number of students participating grows.

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Student voice and choice just keeps resounding for me.  Giving students tactile/discussion/movement/opportunities is so key to helping them develop in your classroom.
Continuing to praise process over product to develop growth mindsets.

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I think for me the message i got was student engagement through a variety of methods.  Each student comes to us with a different background, experiences and learning styles.  It’s my job as a teacher to discover how each student learns best and to keep them engaged.  These latest articles really made me reflect and think deeply about how I can do this!  I would like to begin the year in the fall with a plan to implement strategies that help students think deeply in multiple ways, share freely with the group and one another and provide many opportunities for hands on learning!

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1.  Students needs to feel represented and welcome in the learning environment
2. I must teach to how my students learn, not how I like to teach
3.  We need to start getting students to think abut their own thinking to develop a strategy to solve the problem.
4. I need to know the developmentally and age appropriate strategies for problem solving for my students I teach.
5. It is my job to make all students comfortable to participate in their own learning.

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I had a couple big take aways from this week. One I think we need to look at what we are teaching and how we are teaching our students. If we want our students to grow we need to work on growing ourselves. We need to be willing to try new ideas and techniques that work for our students. The second big take away is implementing new ideas. I have started a list of ideas in my notebook that I want to try next year. A lot of these ideas that I have been coming up in these articles are ones that I have heard of before but just forgot about. So I plan to write them down so I don't forget them between now and the start of next year.

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My biggest take away from this week is just to get students involved in learning. They want/need a voice in the classroom. They can sometimes be better teachers and we need to allow that.

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I need to spend some time reflecting on my teaching to see if I'm teaching in the same way too often and if I could be neglecting some of the students in my class. I teach kindergarten, so I don't foresee my students speaking up about my teaching style. It's my job to make sure that I'm paying attention to their individual needs and meeting those needs in the way that I'm teaching.

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I need to give my students more opportunities to learn the content using their own hands. As a science classroom we rave about how we get to do fun hands - on labs but needless to say, I could incorporate more. Small demos with students participating if anything. That's not difficult. Also, I've fallen into the comfortable role of only calling on the bold ones to answer during class discussion and I'm not okay with that. I would like to get students out from the heads and have them share more of what their thinking with their classmates. I intend to use some of the strategies in the articles shared during this module.

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The importance of effort and praising the effort is the major connection I make with this module. I see a lot of quit in students that I teach. If it's hard now it's too hard and therefore I should not try. The fixed mindset is previlant in Middle School students and the challenge is to get these students to recognize how just simply giving effort even if the results are not what they are looking for they can continue to grow and learn and that every effort that results in failure is just one more step to success

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I think my biggest takeaway is that we as educators need to be listening to our students. We need to make sure we are providing them with the best education and meeting their needs as best we can. If they are telling us they are bored- we need to try to do things a different way to help with engagement. I think we can start by looking at what we are teaching and how we do it. Are we teaching the same thing year after year with the same videos and resources because it is easier for us? Or are we changing things up every year to meet the needs of our new students?

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When thinking about the key characteristic with performance tasks and how Mr. Smith may not be adjusting his instruction to the needs of his students, I have learned that students mindset will be directly affected by the way teachers present a topic. For example, with my 7th grade students, we are about to do a frog dissection. How I present this to the students is either going to foster a fun learning environment or a task that students do not look forward to. I also need to be monitoring and adjusting to my student's reactions about this and modify my instruction accordingly!