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Reinforcing EffortResearched Best Practices for Student
Learning
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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4 Hidden Questions That Students Need a YES To
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?
Marzano and Pickering, 2011
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4 Hidden Questions That Students Need a YES To
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
Marzano and Pickering, 2011
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4 Hidden Questions That Students Need a YES To
Marzano and Pickering, 2011
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
Collaborative Notes: Mini-Lecture
Questions and Hypotheses Notes Deep Idea 1 Deep Idea 2
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
Needs of All Learners
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
Needs of All Learners
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?
Glasser, Choice Theory, 1998
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?
Needs of All Learners
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Glasser, Choice Theory, 1998
Collaborative Notes: Mini-Lecture
Questions and Hypotheses Notes Deep Idea 1 Deep Idea 2
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
Collaborative Notes: Mini-Lecture
Questions and Hypotheses Notes Deep Idea 1 Deep Idea 2
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.”
http://www.ed.gov/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Douglass2.jpg
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