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Showing posts with label growth mindset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growth mindset. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2018

3 Weeks In...

Week 3 was definitely one for the books! We spent 3 hours on Monday sheltered in place, meaning, from 2:40pm-5:30pm my students and I were hunkered down in the hallway in tornado drill position. When it was all said and done I think there was about 10 confirmed tornadoes in Central Virginia that day. Many parents rushed to pick up their children as soon as they were able to. My last child left at 6:45pm and most of the buses started pulling in around 7pm. They had to run their middle school and high school routes before they could even head to the elementary schools. I'm thankful for the safety of our students and all our families. 

I took some updated pictures on Friday of my classroom I wanted to share. 


Math Board
Addition Strategies Anchor Chart
Our Super Improver Board- They're moving on up!
We read The Bad Seed and made a Growth Mindset Craftivity. I'm also happy to say that all of my students still have their original pencil from the first day of school!
Books with a Common Theme Board
Our Bucket Fillers/Dippers Chart
We Learned about Nonfiction Text Features last week
Our Reading Posters
More Anchor Charts
Even More Anchor Charts
We started talking about Growth Mindset this week
Our first Wonders were about Hurricane Florence
We read The Jelly Donut Kindness and discussed ways to be kind to others
Close Up of Craftivity
Inside of Craftivity
Back to School Night was Thursday- waiting for parents was their child's Learning Handbook (study guides for every subject), a copy of my Parent Handbook with all policies and procedures, Movie Permission Slip, Computer Log in Card and a note they could leave for their child


Friday, July 27, 2018

4 for Friday: Growth Mindset

Just one more week to go and summer school will be finished and I can finally REST... I'm just going to pretend my principal didn't email me yesterday and tell me my room was ready whenever I wanted to come in, get unpacked and set up!

Back in June I had the honor of attending a professional development in which my good friend Adrienne was presenting how she cultivates a Growth Mindset in her first grade classroom. Which got me to thinking about what I've done and can do in my own classroom. This week I want to focus on developing a Growth Mindset in the classroom.

Growth Mindset in the Classroom

1. Learning Environment- My go to resource for teaching this is the Mindsets in the Classroom book and their Resource book. Here's what it says about the learning environment:
  • Teacher believes that all students can achieve at high levels.
  • Deliberate instruction of perseverance, resiliency, grit and persistence. 
  • Teacher feedback/praise is based on effort, process and strategies used. 
  • Students are given opportunities to safely struggle. 
  • Failure is looked at in a positive light. 
  • Grades and scores are not emphasized. 
  • Students are saying "I don't understand this yet. I'm am not going to give up. If I practice, I will get it."
  • Teacher is saying "Let's think of a new strategy. Yet. I can see the effort you have put into this. Keep Trying."
2. Parent Communication- It is very important to communicate growth mindset to parents so that they understand and support this mindset at home as well. I give out this newsletter to my parents at Back to School Night. I also cover it in my presentation. This can be downloaded for free from Teachers Pay Teachers. 
3. Literature- There are so many books that can be aligned to growth mindset. I like to read them during morning meeting. A few of my favorites are:

4. Activities- There are tons of resources available for teaching growth mindset, some free... some paid. Here are the links to my favorites:
Do you think you could implement any of these ideas in your classroom? Have an idea to help cultivate a growth mindset in your students? Leave a comment here or hop on over to our Facebook page and leave a comment.