{"id":332,"date":"2014-08-31T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=332"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:39:00","slug":"a-classroom-that-lives-breathes-and-models-growth-mindsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2014\/08\/31\/a-classroom-that-lives-breathes-and-models-growth-mindsets\/","title":{"rendered":"A classroom that lives, breathes, and models growth mindsets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Check out this cool Zaption on Angela Duckworth’s TED talk: http:\/\/www.zaption.com\/tours\/5306e72721a59a5e600002b1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that I have pulled\u00a0growth mindset into the forefront of my imagination this year, I have been seeing its implications everywhere: from how I consider the first weeks of school to how I have been thinking about my own Cohort 21 research this year.<\/p>\n

I had a mini-panic moment wondering if I\u2019m investigating growth mindset in grade 7 because it is a familiar area or if it will push me and challenge me to new understandings. I think this is a question we should be asking ourselves more (for example: am I designing this project because it will be easy to mark \/ I\u2019ve done it before \/ it is safe or it is the best challenge for my students?).<\/p>\n

It is probably fair to say that topics like growth mindset, appropriate praise, and grit have been making their rounds in hallways and staff rooms for some time now. \u00a0While I don\u2019t think the idea that intelligence can be grown is new or challenging territory for me, I don\u2019t yet have a road map for how to share this perspective with my students. I was certainly soothed when I was re-watching Angela Duckworth\u2019s TED talk <\/a>and she said, \u201c…to me the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little sciences knows, about building it.\u201d<\/p>\n

From my reading, I know\u00a0that exposing students to this research and giving them a working understanding of how the brain works is one step in the right direction, but I also want to embed ideas of growth mindset into the projects I design this year<\/strong><\/span>. I want the \u201cinterventions\u201d, yes, but I also want to design a classroom that lives, breathes, models, and expects students to demonstrate their grit, growth, and perseverance in the face of challenges. I think I owe that much to the children in my care this year.<\/p>\n

So, my research to-do list (what to do before my action plan gets hammered out) is getting a little brush up:<\/p>\n

In order to investigate how to foster an academic \/ growth mindset in my grade 7 students, I will…<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1) Investigate how academic \/ growth mindsets fit into the positive psychology framework (something I\u2019m curious to learn more about)?<\/i><\/p>\n

2) Figure out what technology resources exists that could support the development of growth \/ academic mindsets?<\/i><\/p>\n

3) Research what\u00a0other educators are doing in their classrooms \/ school to embed this philosophy into their pedagogy?<\/i>
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\n4) Design the first Grade 7 project to foster a growth mindset and reflect on the results.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

6) I\u2019ve read a bit about growth mindsets, I\u2019m seeing people write about \u201cacademic mindsets\u201d, but are there other mindsets that I should consider exposing my students to?<\/i><\/p>\n

6) What would a best-case scenario look like in my classroom \/ my school after embarking on this year of action research?<\/i><\/p>\n

My intention is to explore one of these above questions in a blog post over the next 2 months of school (I\u2019m going to be a busy girl).<\/p>\n

While I am gearing up for this I need your help:\u00a0how could project work support growth mindset ideas? What have you done in your classroom (other than just explaining the different mindsets) that helped your students through first-hand experience<\/i>\u00a0see that their success is linked with sustained effort?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All of your ideas are needed…they will help my intelligence about growth mindsets grow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I have pulled\u00a0growth mindset into the forefront of my imagination this year, I have been seeing its implications everywhere: from how I consider the first weeks of school to how I have been thinking about my own Cohort 21 research this year. I had a mini-panic moment wondering if I\u2019m investigating growth mindset … Continue reading “A classroom that lives, breathes, and models growth mindsets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}