What does it mean to have a growth mindset?
Being open to try new things and push boundaries with my teaching. As a teacher, the learning shouldn't stop and if it does then I am unsure how that helps your students. Learning from our mistakes and seeing mistakes as an opportunity - being in 'the pit' and in a state of worry, unknowing or confusion is one of the most powerful places or mindsets you can be in!
Why is it important to have a growth mindset?
So that development and individual learning occurs. Life must be a very boring place when you are stuck in a fixed mindset...growing and learning new things is so much fun. Especially in education which is so fast paced and embracing exciting change at the moment. Having a growth mindset is important to maintain and achieve what I have dubbed the CSI's!
C's - continue, collaborate, create
S's - share, succeed and sustain
I's - implement, improve and inspire!
So - how do we begin to develop those growth mindsets in our students (and ourselves)?
Ask children what they want to learn and let them be involved in the creation process. Foster and encourage their curiosity about various subjects and let them ask questions and lead their own and each others learning.
I have been doing lots of work with my class on 'The Pit'. By teaching them that making mistakes is a powerful tool, they are really challenging their own thinking and learning. Teaching children that it is about the journey rather than the end product. If the journey is a direct route then it possibly hasn't inspired, challenged or taught you much...
Describe a particular time when you saw a student change their mindset.
Describe a time you overcame your fixed mindset about a particular obstacle and how it relates to Ss perspectives?
Moving from teaching seniors to middle school at the beginning of this year. I was convinced that I would hate it! Turns out I am absolutely in love with teaching Year 3 and 4. They are so creative and have such curious minds! I am able to do some very cool things with them (Edmodo, Blogging, 3D Printing, Tinkercad, Digital Badges, Using GAFE Tools) all because I am not constrained by the extra-curricular pressures I had teaching in the senior school.
What is the next thing that you are working on to build your growth mindset? Next goal?
Embracing the challenge of 3D Printing and designing with children aged 7 and 8. It is scary but so exciting and I cannot wait for them to overtake me and then become my little teaching experts - it is bound to happen sooner than I think!
Also continually developing my patience around teaching with people who are 'still developing' their growth mindset. It is one of the hardest things to watch but at the end of the day if a teacher is not willing to change their own thinking then it is very hard to assist them - it leaves you with an unspoken question!!!
Thank you +ariaporo22 for hosting!
I have been doing lots of work with my class on 'The Pit'. By teaching them that making mistakes is a powerful tool, they are really challenging their own thinking and learning. Teaching children that it is about the journey rather than the end product. If the journey is a direct route then it possibly hasn't inspired, challenged or taught you much...
Describe a particular time when you saw a student change their mindset.
Describe a time you overcame your fixed mindset about a particular obstacle and how it relates to Ss perspectives?
Moving from teaching seniors to middle school at the beginning of this year. I was convinced that I would hate it! Turns out I am absolutely in love with teaching Year 3 and 4. They are so creative and have such curious minds! I am able to do some very cool things with them (Edmodo, Blogging, 3D Printing, Tinkercad, Digital Badges, Using GAFE Tools) all because I am not constrained by the extra-curricular pressures I had teaching in the senior school.
What is the next thing that you are working on to build your growth mindset? Next goal?
Embracing the challenge of 3D Printing and designing with children aged 7 and 8. It is scary but so exciting and I cannot wait for them to overtake me and then become my little teaching experts - it is bound to happen sooner than I think!
Thank you +ariaporo22 for hosting!
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