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MCOE Conversation Workshop

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MCOE Workshop on Growth Mindset for Leaders

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The term "growth mindset" comes from the groundbreaking work of Carol Dweck. She identified everyone holds ideas about their own potential. Some people believe that their intelligence is more or less fixed and in math - that you can do math or you can't. About 40% of students have these damaging "fixed mindset" ideas.

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How you can be good at math, and other surprising facts about learning | Jo Boaler | TEDxStanford

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How to Learn Math for students or teachers

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How to Learn Math for students or teachers

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This lesson introducing the brain science and mindset research and includes a video interview with Professor Carol Dweck.

Brain Plasticity

Mindset

Smart & Gifted Labels

Interview Prof Carol Dweck

Lesson 2. Setting Up Class
This is the first lesson that begins to unpack our teaching intervention. I start with sharing some fascinating brain research on compression, before introducing our teaching ideas from the first lessons and describing the way we set up our teaching and the students' learning.

Compression

Conceptual learning

Journals

Low Floor High Ceiling Tasks

Number Talks

Making Conjectures

Lesson 3. Open, Creative, Visual Mathematics
This lesson introduces important new research on the importance of visualizing mathematical ideas. It also shares a fascinating set of lessons in which the students were stretched with a complex visual task that encouraged important brain connections.

Brain Connections

Number Lines

Finger Research

Painted Cube Task

Prof Maryam Mirzakhani

Lesson 4. Mistakes and Challenge
This lesson introduces research showing the importance of struggle, challenge and mistakes for brain growth. We also hear from Steve Strogatz talking about some of the mistakes important to the history of mathematics. This lesson introduces an important set of lessons on algebraic thinking and considers ways to plan lessons for important mathematical ideas.

Prof Steve Strogatz Interview on Mistakes

Dealing with Classroom Mistakes

The Border Problem

Speed and Performance Pressure

The Backwards Teaching of Algebra

Big Ideas & Curriculum Planning

Challenge

Lesson 5. Productive Group Work & Class Discussions
This lesson considers the best ways to group students for productive mathematical discussions. Our students told us that the groupwork was one of the best parts of their lessons, but that groupwork in their school classrooms didn't work. What was the difference? This lesson considers ways to encourage productive small group work and whole class discussions.

Productive group work

Mathematical discussions

Convince and be a skeptic

Whole class discussions

Graphing sequence

Embodied Cognition - walking the graph

Lesson 6. Mathematical Freedom
A goal we should all have for our teaching is letting students think feely about mathematics, encouraging important brain growth and learning. How do teachers set this up for students? It includes paying attention to many parts of teaching - including how students sit, record ideas, learn new ideas, discuss, and how long they spend on tasks. This lesson considers all of these ideas and also shows an amazing case of change, for a Latina girl who hated math. This lesson also shows different ways to work with any curriculum questions and open them to encourage brain growth and learning.

Prof Steve Strogatz Interview

Freedom - organizational

Freedom - mathematical thinking

A case of transformation

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This lesson introducing the brain science and mindset research and includes a video interview with Professor Carol Dweck. Brain Plasticity Mindset Smart & Gifted Labels Interview Prof Carol Dweck Lesson 2. Setting Up Class This is the first lesson that begins to unpack our teaching intervention.