{"id":68,"date":"2017-01-19T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/?p=68"},"modified":"2017-01-19T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:24:25","slug":"creating-a-culture-of-grit-with-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/2017\/01\/19\/creating-a-culture-of-grit-with-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Culture of Grit with Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My action plan is about creating a culture of grit, in my classroom, the\u00a0students I teach and the overall school community. While I still feel a little bit fuzzy on how to tackle this, I did come up\u00a0with some small ideas when we were using the design process during our second F2F session.<\/p>\n

One of the small ideas that I wanted to mention in this post was about using posters to try to not only motivate, but be a reminder of the lens through which we can view our everyday lives. I started this task by performing a good old Google search. I searched \u201cfostering grit in the\u00a0classroom\u201d and came across a whole bunch of resources by Sylvia Duckworth<\/a>. I found this a little bit amusing in that my action plan was inspired by reading \u201cGrit\u201d by Angela Duckworth. What are the odds of that, two different Du\"\"ckworth individuals studying Grit! After visiting Sylvia\u2019s website I found out that she is a sketchnoter who is passionate about helping educators build grit and a growth mindset in themselves\u00a0and their students. Perfect right? I immediately created a folder in my Google drive titled\u00a0\u201cGrit\/ Growth Mindset\u201d where I started to save resources I could reference in the future, primarily directed from her website.<\/p>\n

The second thing I did was look at my classroom to see where was a good location to put these posters. The posters are all standard paper size. I have a couple of bulletin boards that need some love, but they are in locations in my classroom that don\u2019t really promote observation. (Shoved in a corner\u00a0between lab equipment shelves and windows). I thought that the best place would be near the door where students are always passing by. Since there is the thermostat, fire alarm and fire safety image already there I decided to arrange it in a collage as shown below. (I realize it is hard to visualize the posters here and doesn\u2019t necessarily look amazing).<\/p>\n

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After placing these posters students began to comment. Some in a sarcastic manner \u201cReally, can I do hard things?\u201d and some in an inquisitive\u00a0manner \u201cinteresting posters\u201d, \u201cI\u2019ve never really considered that\u201d, \u201cI guess I don\u2019t normally think about the work people put into things when I look at their successes\u201d. Either way, it generated conversations that hadn\u2019t existed in my student body before.<\/p>\n

My favourite\u00a0posters of these are the \u201ciceberg effects\u201d, \u201cgrowth mindset versus fixed mindset\u201d and the \u201cyou can do hard things\u201d poster that I have included\u00a0throughout \"\"this blog.
\nMy favourite part of the iceberg effect is that it is not only a reminder to students but also to myself. It is easy to see the successes of others and compare yourself to them.\u00a0It is easy to focus on my not-so-great lessons, stressful student interactions and messy desk when I hear about the great lessons, amazing student interactions and organization of other teachers who seem to just have it all figured out. What I need to remember is that there is a lot of hard work, dedication, sacrifice and persistence working behind the scenes of success. We often do not witness each other\u2019s failures but dwell on our own. I am slowly realizing that although my \u201cconcrete\u201d action plan is to work on the grit of our student body at SJK, it is helping me build more grit within myself.
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My action plan is about creating a culture of grit, in my classroom, the\u00a0students I teach and the overall school community. While I still feel a little bit fuzzy on how to tackle this, I did come up\u00a0with some small ideas when we were using the design process during our second F2F session. One of … Continue reading “Creating a Culture of Grit with Posters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-plan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}