Researched Best Practices for Student Learning Sara Overby, Coordinating Teacher for Secondary Literacy, [email protected]

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Sara Overby, Coordinating Teacher for Secondary Literacy, [email protected]

Learning Target I am able to implement at least 3 ideas that will

help to shift the culture in my classroom towards a Growth Mindset for myself and for my students.

I’m not sure what a Growth Mindset is, and/or I’m not sure what I can do about it, anyway.

I have heard of a Growth Mindset and I try to talk to students about their effort. But I don’t have any concrete ideas to use.

I understand the concept of Growth Mindset. I try to include actual strategies to foster effort and growth in my students. I’m seeing some progress, but I don’t really know what to do.

I firmly believe in the Growth Mindset and explicitly teach students about it. I have tools in my teacher toolbox of strategies and plans that have specific connections to effort and achievement.

Self Assess Effort

Collaborative Notes: Mini-Lecture

Questions and Hypotheses Notes Deep Idea 1 Deep Idea 2

Why Won’t This Kid Just Learn It?

When the

going gets

hard, I give

up and get out!

When the

going gets

hard, I double

down and

create new

dendrites!

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Concepts based on Carol S. Dweck, Mindset (2008)

A Growth Mindset Isn’t New

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But… What if…

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How Can We Teach Students to Try?

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Teacher Beliefs

“Teachers must adopt the mind-set that there’s no such thing as laziness.

If a student appears lazy, there’s something else going on that we can’t see.”

Rick Wormeli, “Motivating Young Adolescents” Educational Leadership (Sept. 2014).

4 Hidden Questions That Students Need a YES To

How Do I Feel?Am I tired? Hungry? Worried about home?

Do I like this class?Do I like this teacher?Do I like my classmates?

Marzano and Pickering, 2011

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Can I Do This?Will I look stupid?Will I be embarrassed?Do I have the background skills?Is this “too hard”?Will I get frustrated?


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Am I Interested?Do I already have a natural interest or talent?Do I see how this connects to my own life –today, not 10 years from now?

Does somebody else have a passion that makes me want to know what’s so great?Does someone make this seem fun to learn or worth my time?Do


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Is This Important?Does it relate to my current life?Does it relate to goals I I set for myself?Can I see how it matters in my society or community?

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The Adolescent Mind



Needs of All Learners

Power Do I work

towards my own goals?

Do I have a voice in my evaluation?

Do I think I’m competent?

Do I think I’m significant?Glasser, Choice Theory,

1998


Belonging Do I know that the

teacher “sees me”? Do I feel emotionally

safe here? Do I have a valuable

role in this environment?

Do my peers “hear me”?

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Glasser, Choice Theory, 1998


Freedom Do I have opportunities

to make choices? Do I have opportunities

to design and create? Do I have opportunities

to make my own plans? Do I have opportunities

to move around?


Fun Is this environment enjoyable (but focused)?

Is this class interactive?

Are my experiences in this class rich and relevant?

Do I regularly have “healthy challenges” in this class?


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In the Classroom: Sample Strategy

How does this strategy address the 4 Hidden Questions students bring with them to learnng?

How does it address the 4 Needs of All Learners?

How could a teacher adapt this for different purposes or different learning activities?

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/strategies-for-engaging-students

The Wingman






Student Beliefs

“When students know there are

supports in place to keep

them from free-falling into

failure, they’re much more

likely to take risks to deepen their learning.”

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Robyn Jackson and Allison Zmuda, “4 (Secret) Keys to Student Engagement” Educational Leadership (Sept. 2014).

Points to Ponder

Effort and Motivation

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Environment that makes it safe to take risks Activities with built-in internal motivators Lesson arcs that move from low-risk to

increasingly higher risks emotionally and intellectually

Learning structures with authentic peer recognition

Learning structures with self-assessments of effort and achievement

Lesson plans that address the 4 Questions and 4 Needs

What about…

Collaborative Note Taking?

low-risk to increasingly higher risks?

authentic peer recognition?

safe to take risks? internal motivators? self-assessments of

effort and achievement? 4 Needs?

Power? Belonging? Freedom? Fun?

4 Questions? How I feel? Can I do it? Important? Interested?

More Ideas!

Self Assess YOUR Achievement

I am able to implement at least 3 ideas that will help to shift the culture in my classroom towards a Growth Mindset for myself and for my students.

I can explain concepts and concrete examples about Growth Mindset to students. I can offer several more additional ideas than I could prior to this session. I can assess a learning activity for its effect on student effort.

I hold students accountable for attending to a Growth Mindsets. I can infuse additional specific strategies every day that enhance a culture of engaged effort in my classes.

I now know what a Growth Mindset is. I’m not sure what I can do about it, though.

I can explain Growth Mindset to my students. I plan to try to talk to students about their effort. I can give students 3 specific ideas about effort and motivation.

Self Assess YOUR Effort

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Researched Best Practices for Student Learning Sara Overby, Coordinating Teacher for Secondary Literacy, [email protected]