Change vs Growth by Patricia Talkington https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak Comparison and Contrast of teacher and students in a classroom and school culture. en-us 2021-11-13 22:09:54 UTC 2024-07-22 08:53:49 UTC hello@padlet.com ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889536094 2021-11-14 18:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889536094 ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889542136 2021-11-14 18:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889542136 ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889552329 In chapter 5, it is stated: The way we view change -in education, technology, and life -shapes how you will lead. To be effective leaders, we must model the behavior and attitudes we seek in our learners- be they students or educators. ]]> 2021-11-14 18:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889552329 Teaching Students How—and When—to Change Their MindsLearning involves accepting uncertainty and evolving your thinking. Here’s how teachers can help students cultivate those skills.By Sarah GonserMarch 4, 2021Three high school students work together in their school libraryAllison Shelley for the Alliance for Excellent EducationThe process of learning often requires a willingness to consider new and sometimes conflicting information—and then use that information to update an opinion or form a new one. In the classroom, that’s a skill educators can model, and provide students with opportunities to practice, writes Katherine Burd for Education Week.“The skill of changing one’s mind … benefit[s] learners, workplaces, and society as a whole,” writes Burd, who teaches English at The Chapin School, an independent K-12 school in New York City. “Developing and articulating an informed opinion, then considering new information seriously enough to change that opinion can stimulate new creativity in adult workplaces. This same process is also vital to democracy, where we must always be ready to change the way that we view issues as we learn more about them,” she concludes, touching upon a quality that’s been in short supply recently.For students to learn these increasingly important (and rare) skills, schools must communicate the idea that they value students’ ability to practice flexible thinking and to accommodate uncertainty—but that mindset can be difficult to track through traditional assessment practices. “Though the process of learning requires a student to change her mind, our classrooms still mostly assess a student based on her ability to demonstrate a single concrete view,” writes Burd. While there are clearly facts that are beyond dispute and are unchangeable, when schools “mostly value student work that demonstrates certainty alone, then we reinforce the dangerous, unproductive idea that certainty is what matters.”There are ways that educators can incorporate practices that nudge students toward developing and changing their opinions, Burd says. We took a few ideas from her original article and a few from our Edutopia archives; practices designed to cultivate in students the ability to stretch their thinking and incorporate new perspectives and knowledge.Change classroom discussions: When educators set up “well-structured classroom discussions which teach and assess students’ ability to consider one another’s perspectives,” it can help shift the focus from “argumentation to idea evolution,” writes Burd.At Highlander Charter School, classroom discussions about controversial topics form a regular part of the curriculum and students are expected to research, consider, and discuss issues from different perspectives. “Our students come with these very firm ideas and beliefs about certain topics, because it’s the only perspective they’ve known. So I really like to push the envelope with them,” says Soljane Martinez, a civics and social justice teacher at Highlander. “It’s a really important skill for you to have, looking at things from the point of view of someone who has a different opinion. It’s not a wrong versus right. It’s a ‘well, you know what? Let me take a step over to your side’.”In Martinez’s 12th grade civics class, students gather in small groups, read through online resources on a topic such as LGBTQ rights, or who is to blame for poverty, then get into discussions during which they take opposing views and practice discussing sensitive topics respectfully and listening to opposing viewpoints with an open mind.Highlight evolving thinking: Tasks that help students reflect on and describe their thinking process can help them build the skills to develop—and adjust—their viewpoint. “Templates for thinking about one’s own thinking already exist: structured process-writing assignments, problem sets and lab reports that ask students to submit, alongside final drafts, logic maps and thinking narratives that flag moments of idea development,” writes Burd.She also recommends remediation projects, “which ask students to translate core understandings of course material to new media forms,” and encourage students to consider concepts from new perspectives.Model hidden thinking and self-talk: When educator Stephanie Toro models how to solve a problem for students in her STEM classes, “I talk about every aspect of what I am doing out loud. In fact, I over-talk, providing reasoning for every step,” writes Toro, who is an assistant professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. “I will even include moments of vulnerability and model the fact that I don’t always know what to do, but I will discuss my options and my decision process.”As her students observe Toro work through a problem, she likes to intentionally make mistakes and then demonstrate how to check her work to correct errors. That modeling helps students understand that thinking can evolve, that even adults need to work through ideas, perhaps absorb new information, rethink their steps, to arrive at new solutions. “It’s essential that we explicitly show students this internal dialogue to model problem-solving,” Toro writes.Abandon your own certainty: For kids to learn the value of keeping a flexible mindset, adults in all spheres of students’ lives need to model it themselves. “We—not just educators, but also school leaders, politicians, parents, and citizens—need to abandon our own desires to present certainty in our opinions and start revealing just how often we, too, change,” Burd writes. “Many students believe that their teachers should show absolute mastery of and certainty about material. When a teacher admits to a deficit in knowledge or understanding, though, she opens up space for students to explore and understand on their own.” ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889557277 2021-11-14 19:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889557277 https://youtu.be/PhMkqjbiSaA ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889561930 2021-11-14 19:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889561930 Teacher Professional Growth Professional learning throughout an educator’s career is essential to achieving great public schools. Find out about crucial features and strategies to support professional learning. Share twitter facebook Professional learning is a crucial element of the work of all educators throughout their entire careers.  The education profession is grounded in a rich professional knowledge base, and education professionals must be well-versed in this knowledge base, as well.  In addition, an understanding of the theory and research behind the knowledge base is crucial to guide the thousands of decisions educators make each day.  And educators must engage in intentional practice to refine their skills and professional judgment.Medicine, law, and education are each examples of professions that require continuous professional learning throughout an entire career.  For educators, this imperative arises from multiple factors including: •Ongoing research that expands our understanding of effective practices (e.g., emerging research in such areas as trauma-informed pedagogy and social-emotional learning) •The changing landscape of issues and needs that educators must address in working with students, families, and communities (e.g., changing demographics increasing the number of English language learners) •Changes in policies and statutes that govern the work of educators (e.g., changes in the curriculum requirements for graduation) •Educators’ evolving professional responsibilities, particularly when assignments and duties change (e.g., changing grade levels assigned to a teacher, or making a switch to online learning environments in response to a national crisis). States, districts, schools, policymakers, and unions representing educators in public schools all have a role in helping to create the positive culture in which career-long professional learning is the norm of practice for all educators. Additionally, districts and schools must build their capacity to provide educators the time, space, support, and systems that promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning. For that reason, school leaders are fundamental in promoting and nurturing an organizational culture of continuous learning and collaborative practice. ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889571198 2021-11-14 19:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889571198 "Change is inevitable, Growth is optional" J. Maxwell ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889585452 2021-11-14 19:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889585452 Changes in education ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889586778 2021-11-14 19:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889586778 Technology has changed they way we communicate and learn ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889588505 2021-11-14 19:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889588505 Through out our text we have learned the technology is a tool, not how we learn. Examples: Long distance phone calls were costly before cell phones, Skype, Google Hangouts. Now students can communicate all over the world and they can publish their work for all to see on You Tube. You tube has is an online library to learn from ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889593743 2021-11-14 19:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889593743 Growth for educators and students ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889594787 2021-11-14 19:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889594787 ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889597706 2021-11-14 19:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889597706 ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889602738 2021-11-14 20:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889602738 https://mindfulbydesign.com/change-mindset-change-words/ ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889604148 2021-11-14 20:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889604148 https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/growth-mindset-for-teachers/ ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889605756 2021-11-14 20:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889605756 https://athlosacademies.org/growth-mindset/#:~:text=Teachers%20who%20have%20a%20growth,perseverance%2C%20all%20students%20can%20succeed. ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889608141 2021-11-14 20:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1889608141 COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED: ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1900572319  The pandemic has changed education. We have gone from in-person, to complete closure, to virtual, some in-person again, but not full capacity. School had to get everyone a computer, hot spots if they did not have internet at home, parents now were helping their student to log on and complete their work. Teachers had to learn how  to teach virtually and learn new technology. It was a learning curve for everyone. 
School nursing became a bigger challenge, their were more responsibilities, learn all about COVID and how to contact trace and quarantine. Had to teach how and why everyone needs to wear a mask and how to social distance to stay safe. All of this has made us change how we educate our students and staff. ]]> 2021-11-18 21:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1900572319 Ways to grow in the school culture: ptalkington1959 https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1900601351 Personal growth is returning to school and attaining a new degree. My growth is working on my Masters in Educational Technology at Lindenwood University.  Another way is networking in person and on social media, twitter chats, nursing webinars online, learning how to do zoom meetings with the school and nursing staff. 
Making new guidelines and rules to stay safe in the building when we return to in-person. Many changes, new rules, it was a hectic time during the beginning of the COVID pandemic]]> 2021-11-18 21:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalkington1959/cn25og6kmxbfdyak/wish/1900601351