https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7 Share when you have recently experienced or observed growth mindset in action! en-us 2019-02-08 20:42:35 UTC 2023-02-11 16:48:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329629243 Growth mindset is a way of life in our ADSIS room. Items such as the power of yet, levels of growth and goal setting are everyday items.  Top 20  promotes the  concept of confusion as the beginning of understanding.  This has been helpful for my own mindset as  I approached  a new position.  I use materials from Big Life Journal to promote positive growth talk with my students. 
I knew it was making an impact when a second grader was using IXL math and the questions were increasing in difficulty, his response was this quote, that now hangs on the bulletin board in our room. ]]> 2019-02-10 18:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329629243 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329640053 One example that I have seen recently of a growth mindset is in my individualized math work.  I have a student that was in my Math Skills class first semester, who I would consider an average math student.  She does well, but she needs to work at math, it does not always come easy for her.  In Math Skills, she was the student who completed the most Khan Academy skills, in other words made the most progress.  First semester is now over and she is not "required" to work on Khan Academy anymore.  During our flexible homeroom time last week, she came to my room.  I asked her if she needed help with anything, she said no, she just wanted a quiet place to work on Khan Academy because she wants to complete the entire math course.  I was very impressed with her determination to finish even though it is not required of her.  Her hard work and unwillingness to give up is going to lead to success later in her life.

]]> 2019-02-10 19:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329640053 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329641618 In order to collect data for my mini action research using number talks, I created a form called "number thoughts". On Jan. 23rd after trying out a number talk the week before just to introduce the idea, I gave my students a "number thoughts" paper. They were asked to choose a number, write it in the middle of the paper, and represent that number in as many ways that came to mind. I told them we would do this each week so that we could watch for our own learning. Would we each have more ideas about numbers as we shared our thinking with each other during daily number talks? On Friday, Feb. 8th we did our second "number thoughts" on paper and then looked at the 2 assessments side by side. This had huge impact on the kindergartners! Everyone had more ideas the second time around, some showed drastic growth! I tell them often how their stamina and persistence is making them strong students, but this was a visual representation that definitely will contribute to a growth mindset in each of my students. ]]> 2019-02-10 19:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329641618 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329701371 I have a student who has some special needs in the areas of coordination, maturity, and vision. He plays on the JV basketball team but usually only gets to play a minute or two towards the end of some games. His teammates have been trying to feed him the ball and get him to score, but it hadn't happened yet. Last week, he came to class and was was so excited to tell me - he scored a basket the night before! He said his teammates all cheered for him and so did the other team. He was so proud. And, he told me, "Next time, I'm going to try and score a 3!" He is the perfect example of growth mindset and the power of yet. In math and in basketball, he keeps trying to get better and set new goals for himself.

UPDATE: On Monday, he made a 3!  The Pine Island JV Team was great about letting us get offensive rebounds to give him multiple chances.  And, the Varsity coach is nominating him for Athlete of the Week!]]> 2019-02-11 02:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329701371 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329908860 In our school community we focus on growth mindset in all of our classes. Specifically we utilize this ideas before traditional tests and performance assessments. I have students who write affirmations and goals for themselves on test before they start. I have a couple other students who will come in early to go over reivews, or will check in while working on performance assessments and asking really deep critical thinking questions so they can go deeper. I have also starting discussing with the students in my classes that learning for the sake of learning is more important than a grade. The other aspect of this idea of growth mindset came from a friend of mine in Lake City, who shared the attached picture that really connected to how I have always imagined her coversations with students to be like. Focus on what you can control, not on what you can't. ]]> 2019-02-11 15:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/329908860 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330115398 In life:
My son, Isaac (2 years old), is obsessed with basketball and will play all day long if we let him!  We have an over the door hoop hanging from a banister which is probably at about 9 ft.  It amazes me how he will shoot and shoot at this hoop and rarely come close to making it.  He never gives up and has the best attitude.  It got me thinking, when and why does this change for kids?  Many of my kindergarteners will get down on themselves if something is difficult for them and there is only 3-4 years of an age difference. 

In class:
I have been prepping for conferences and organizing student work samples that I have been collecting over the year. I was able to show my students their writing from the beginning of the year compared to where they are at now. They were so excited about their improvement and growth. It led to a great conversation about hard work and how we grow as learners.]]> 2019-02-11 21:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330115398 erkilk08 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330315645 A few weeks ago, I was noticing that my students seemed disengaged from learning and weren't putting in their best effort. So I decided to take a step back and spend an afternoon on Social-Emotional Learning. To start I introduced "The Human Knot" to encourage students to work together and guide them to discover that when they work together and try their best, they can accomplish anything! We then did a coloring page that says "I can do hard things!" and hung them on our lockers. I continue to remind the kids of this when things get tough. It's a work in progress, but I'm seeing more of a Growth Mindset in my students as they continue working hard to do new things.]]> 2019-02-12 13:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330315645 jmbesk17 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330367774 I am currently teaching fractions with my Fifth Graders. Every year my students become very overwhelmed and hate fractions. My students this year started the unit off this way. I changed my usual way of teaching and the students and I have been sitting on the floor in a circle and working through fractions together. This has been wonderful because we spend a great deal of time working through each others miss understandings. Instead of it being teacher lead, it is very much so student led. The students spend a lot of time working together and helping one another out. It has been amazing to see their mind set shift in a positive way. My students are becoming less afraid about fractions and more excited about them. ]]> 2019-02-12 15:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330367774 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330454065 I’ve seen a lot of growth mindset with my sixth graders this year! Most recently, in seventh period, we’ve been working on math fact fluency. We do a short intervention every Monday/Wednesday/Friday and we took a timed test to find our baseline. Most of the kids have been very positive throughout the entire process and they have recognized that improving their fluency will help them with the new math that their learning, which is their driving force! I’m hopeful that when we take our next timed test and reflect on it, students make growth and are able to articulate it and be proud of it! In general, in their reflections on quizzes this year, they have done a great job of that.]]> 2019-02-12 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330454065 hmore https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330476207 I have a student in my classroom that has been told for years that he struggles, both by his parents and his former teachers. Coming into the school year, both of his parents "warned" me that he would struggle, even going as far as trying to evaluate him for special education before the school year started. It broke my heart to hear this from his parents without even meeting the student yet. Throughout the year, he has had his ups and downs, but mostly ups. Two weeks ago we took our quarterly AR assessments to see where the students were in their growth. This student is one to consistently move up in his scores. This time around he only went up one "point". Seeing this, he started to become down on himself because it wasn't much growth. After a few minutes, he came back and told me that he in fact DID make growth and did not stay at the same score or even decrease. I am so proud of him for approaching this situation with a growth mindset and even telling his parents about how excited he was about the growth he made in his score.]]> 2019-02-12 18:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/330476207 mmmurr18 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/333457108 My daughter Bryn is 4 years old and in preschool this year. She is super smart and catches on to new concepts very quickly. The one skills that she struggles with is her fine motor skills. She struggled with writing the letters of her name and would want to quit quickly when we would practiced. I told her that not everything is easy and that if she works hard at it she will be able to write her name. So I made tracing sheets for her and laminated them so that she could use a dry erase marker, I printed off tracing a papers for her to rainbow write with pencils, and just gave her a lot of blank paper to write on. We started practicing a few nights a week starting with the dry erase tracing, then the paper tracing, and now she is doing great on her letters. She still struggles with her "y" a little bit but she has come so far. Now when we are practicing she is so excited to show me her letters.]]> 2019-02-21 01:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/333457108 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/334472428 Like Molly, I also have witnessed growth mindset in my own children. Having dyslexia makes reading and spelling difficult for my youngest daughter. She had a homework worksheet in which she was supposed to edit a passage for spelling errors, pretty much a nightmare assignment for anyone with dyslexia! Helping her thorough this assignment took over an hour and a few tears. Because of this, it really surprised me when we finally finished and she said, "This was really hard, mom. I should ask my teacher for more of these so I can get more practice." I am so proud of her for thinking this, I know that I was hoping to never see another paper like that ever again, but I learned from her that we need to keep doing the hard things!]]> 2019-02-23 18:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/334472428 https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/351413652 I have experienced a bit of a LACK of growth mindset, followed by a realization and move toward a growth mindset. As the Feb 10-23 E-Learning period came to a close, I, like normal, saved all of my writing until the end. I was going to complete the writing and submission portion that Friday and Saturday. I also was a little behind on my AR work. Then, my son decided he wanted to be born 5 weeks early. That, along with being in the hospital for over a week because of that, I got behind. And I got more behind after that. I had a ton of AR work to do, a bunch of work from multiple E-learnings to complete, and my regular work from my classes to do. On top of that, I had to learn to be a new dad to a premie baby. I got overwhelmed in a hurry and the hole seemed to get deeper and deeper. When I decided to just get down to it and solve the problems, I started to rank the items in order of importance, get to work on one at a time, and cross them off my list. Slowly, but surely, I made progress and climbed out of the hole. Almost there!]]> 2019-04-13 22:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mlien2/roamzhx0bos7/wish/351413652