Math = Love: Growth Mindset and SBG Bulletin Board Downloads I already included the pictures of my two new bulletin boards this year in my massively long post of classroom pictures today, but I wanted to create a separate blog post that people could use to easily find the downloads to duplicate these bulletin boards in their own classrooms. I don't think I've ever been this happy with my bulletin boards before. They make me smile. They represent what I think is important. The bulletin board behind my desk is called "Change Your Words - Change Your Mindset!" . This is not an original idea. The words printed on gray cardstock represent a fixed mindset. The words printed on colored cardstock represent a growth mindset. I'm asking my students this year to listen for people speaking in the fixed mindset and to offer them a statement in the growth mindset instead. My other bulletin board stems from this theory of mindset. If I truly believe that mistakes are good and that is how we learn, my classroom grading policy needs to reflect that.
jlsu Som en uppföljning till mitt förra blogginlägg om dynamiskt och statiskt tankesätt kommer här den s k isbergsillusionen. Isbergsillusionen visar exempel på vad som krävs för att bli framgångsrik, men som oftast inte syns på ytan. När man ser någon som är riktigt duktig (t ex en idrottsutövare, en musiker, en jonglerare etc) ser det väldigt enkelt ut. Därför är det lätt att tro att det handlar om ”medfödd talang”. Det man dock inte ser är all den träning, den uppoffring och det hårda arbete som ligger bakom. Oftast är det de som tränar mest (och bäst) som når längst. Den som vill ha isbergsillusionen som pdf kan ladda ner den här: Isbergsillusionen
Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching - Jo Boaler, Carol Dweck There is much concern over the fact that U.S. students perform so poorly in math compared to students in other countries. Scores of students hate and fear math, students leave school lacking a comprehension of basic mathematical concepts, and the numbers of students choosing math at the college level are in sharp decline. Much of this is blamed on the fact that students just don’t like the subject. Until now, research on mathematics learning and the brain has been communicated through research journals. New brain research on Mathematics LearningThe Power of Mistakes and StruggleWhat Is Math Really? Mathematical Mindsets offers strategies on ways to approach math, the messages to give to students, the activities to use in classrooms and homes, ways to assess and group students and many other important aspects of learning.
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Why the Growth Mindset is the Only Way to Learn “You’re too old to learn a foreign language.” “I couldn’t work on computers. I’m just not good with them.” “I’m not smart enough to run my own business.” Do you know what these statements have in common? When you have a fixed mindset, you believe that at a certain point, what you have is all you’re ever going to have: You’ll always have a set IQ. The problem is, this mindset will make you complacent, rob your self-esteem and bring meaningful education to a halt. In short, it’s an intellectual disease and patently untrue. The fixed mindset’s antithesis, the growth mindset, may be the cure. Dr. But before the good news, we have to address the bad. The Fixed Mindset in Action Do you find yourself trying to prove how smart you are? These are all symptoms of a fixed mindset. Within a fixed framework, progress is impossible. But where do these mindsets come from? According to Dweck, they’re formed very early in life – and it’s actually possible a mindset like this was useful. Find peers
untitled ‘Not a Math Person’: How to Remove Obstacles to Learning Math Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and announced he didn’t like math anymore. His mom asked why and he said, “math is too much answering and not enough learning.” This story demonstrates how clearly kids understand that unlike their other courses, math is a performative subject, where their job is to come up with answers quickly. Boaler says that if this approach doesn’t change, the U.S. will always have weak math education. “There’s a widespread myth that some people are math people and some people are not,” Boaler told a group of parents and educators gathered at the 2015 Innovative Learning Conference. “We live in a society with lots of kids who don’t believe they are good at math,” Boaler said at an Education Writers Association conference. Neuroscientists now know that the brain has the ability to grow and shrink.
Teachers & Tutors | Teaching Maths | Teaching Numeracy | National Numeracy We hope that this page will provide both a useful overview of the key elements of teaching numeracy and guide you towards useful resources and research both within and outside our site – however we are just getting started so please do help us develop further support as suggested in ‘How you can make a difference’ below. Functional numeracy Being numerate is a crucial lifeskill. Here is our definition of numeracy and our thoughts on numeracy vs. maths - including numeracy versus teaching maths in the classroom. A problem-solving approach For teachers, tutors or instructors, this may present a challenge – they cannot always know what skills and competencies their students will need as they move through life. What’s involved… For teachers, tutors or instructors, this means helping learners to: Learning for life Becoming – and remaining – sufficiently numerate to respond confidently to the unfolding demands of one’s personal, social and work life is an individual challenge for every learner.
Empowering Student Voice Through Classroom Culture Posted 02/17/2015 12:31PM | Last Commented 02/22/2015 1:53AM Empowering student voice transforms a learner from being an observer to an initiator. We’ve all seen students who walk in the door on the first day of school with a fixed mindset. Their previous educational experience may have led them to believe they may be great in math, but struggle in reading. As educators, how can we support the development of a growth mindset that will lead to empowerment of student voice? Ongoing Community Building to Support Growth Mindset Educators grasp the importance of team building, but to take it further in order to shift the culture, I utilize Laurie S. Steps to Establishing Community Create an environment of cooperation: move toward collaboration through pushing one’s comfort zones. For example, in one of the problem-solving activities, students would have to toss a small ball around the circle in the shortest amount of time. How did you feel during the activity? Habits of Mind Classroom Tip
Vilket mindset har du när du möter dina elever? Har du någonsin funderat över varför vissa elever fortsätter försöka trots motgångar medan andra ger upp? Det här är ett område som har intresserat forskaren Carol Dweck under många år. I sin forskning har hon kommit fram till att det finns två huvudkategorier av tänkesätt som styr vårt handlande; ett fixerat – ”Så här är det! Det här kan jag/kan jag inte!” – och ett mer flexibelt – ”Så här är det just nu. Det här kan jag förbättra!” En människa har sällan samma mindset i alla situationer. Eller av sina kompetenser och färdigheter i ämnet:”Jag kan lösa svåra tal om jag använder uppställningar.” Ibland är elevens mindset beroende av vilken form av feedback läraren ger eleven:”Du har en talang för matematik.” Eller:”Du använde bra strategier när du löste uppgiften.” Utveckla ett growth mindset med processfeedback Vårt bemötande kan hjälpa eleven att utveckla ett growth mindset, skriver Dweck, eftersom mindsets är baserade på signaler vi skickar om vad som är viktigt.
8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math Students Productive struggle is the kind of effortful learning that develops grit and creative problem solving. It results in students understanding content at a deeper level and applying that learning to more difficult and complex problems. It's what we want for all students. But did you know that some teaching methods could block students' potential for developing productive struggle in math? Here’s a roundup of information on some common teaching habits and their unintended consequences: 1. It may be tempting to call on the Hermione Grangers in class, but by doing so we miss an opportunity to show students how to respond when they get stuck. Helpful resources: 2. Researcher Carol Dweck shares that praising students for their intelligence can have negative consequences on their motivation to achieve. Try praising for creativity in figuring out a problem, playing with ideas, thinking out of the box or persevering in the face of challenge. 3. 4. Explore examples of visual math activities: 5. 6. 7.
Home Page Teachers Primary Pupils Secondary Students Events and PD "It gave me some good ideas to use in the classroom and ... a link that I can get all of the activities from." Book NRICH Bespoke PDBook Forthcoming EventsBook our Hands-on Roadshow Your Solutions Developing a growth mindset | Class Teaching I’ve decided to use the spring break as an opportunity to catch up on some long overdue reading – starting with ‘Mindset’ by Carol Dweck. The theory explored in this book is that there are two types of mindset – fixed and growth. The diagram below summarises the main qualities exhibited by each one: It’s obvious to see the relevance of this to us as teachers and Dweck presents a very compelling case for it. Whilst the theory is interesting, what I’m most interested in is what we can actually do in schools, in lessons, to move more of our students from a fixed to a growth mindset? So what follows is an initial attempt to look at each of the qualities of the ‘growth mindset and some of the strategies and techniques we use as teachers to develop this in students. Links to other relevant posts and blogs have also been included, within this post. Embrace challenges Tell students that they will be doing challenging learning in lessons – and tell them why you think they will be able to do it.