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Project Alternatives - Google Sheets. Would You Rather...? | ASKING STUDENTS TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN PATH AND JUSTIFY IT. Top of the Class Home Tutoring Castle Hill, Sydney NSW. Your child has their own individual needs and their own individual expectations. We work with you, your child and your child's teachers to ensure that those needs are met and their expectations are exceeded. Our one-on-one approach places your son or daughter at the centre of their own private tuition program, with you as chief advisor.

By placing your child at the centre of our structured support program, it allows your private tutor to: Communicate with your child's school teacher(s) to structure tuition specific to their class work. When you contact us, we'll have a chat about your child's circumstances (year level, subjects etc), we'll talk about your goals for them and any concerns you'd like us to address.

Some parents decide to hire a tutor because their child is struggling to keep up in certain areas of school work. Regardless of the answer, we have the right tutoring solutions to suit your goals. And the most important part of this process? Carol Dweck. Father Daughter Relationships - Life Lessons at WomansDay.com. 4. Be self-sufficient. Getty Images While it's hard for parents not to pick up their children every time they fall, sometimes a father is doing his daughter a disservice by bailing her out of trouble—especially when it comes to money.

"You have got to teach your daughter to become financially self-reliant. She does not need a man's money for anything. 5. Dads often double as driving instructors during teen years, but the lessons shouldn't stop there. 6. This can be a tough one, even for adults, because it entails not only admitting you were wrong but also correcting your course of action. 7. With so much pressure to have the perfect body, perfect career and perfect family, it's no wonder women are feeling more overwhelmed than ever before. 8. While lavishing a child with presents and affection may feel right in the moment, there are other expressions of love that are better for helping her excel in life. The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset” Photo Credit: Antoine Gady via Compfight ‘Growth Mindset Starts With Us, Not With Them’ is the first post in a two-part series at my Education Week Teacher column.

Also check out Here Are The Movie Scenes That Readers Have Said Demonstrate A Growth Mindset – & I’m Still Looking For More The “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column this week is “How Can We Help Our Students Develop a Growth Mindset?” (NOTE: You can now read Carol Dweck’s guest response to that question here). As part of the response, which will be published on Tuesday, I thought a “The Best…” list would be useful. Carol Dweck, who identified the concept, will be one of the guests responding to that question, and several readers have already shared their ideas.

There’s still time to contribute yours…. Here are my choices for The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset”: I’ve got to start with Professor Dweck’s own website, Mindset Online. Here is a fabulous infographic on the concept. FINAL%20Growth%20Mindset%20Lesson%20Plan%20(April%202015) 6 ways to teach growth mindset from day one of school. Imagine if your new class this fall was full of students who would: Be willing to try new thingsStick with hard tasks and not give upPush themselves to do their best work, not just what’s “good enough”Believe in themselves and their own ability to learn Here’s the great news–these are traits that we can help develop in our students by teaching them about how their brains work.

Many students enter our classrooms believing they’re either smart or not smart, good at reading or math, or not good in those areas. This belief that our basic qualities like intelligence and talents can’t be changed is called a fixed mindset. Often our students figure: Why bother trying at something that’s hard for me? Our students may not realize that their brains have the ability to change and grow through their experiences (neuroplasticity). And once they have a growth mindset, they can learn anything. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Show students how to respond constructively to setbacks and failures. 6. Mindset Works®: Student Motivation through a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.

Research on the growth mindset shows that students who believe they can grow their basic abilities have greater motivation and higher achievement than do students who believe their abilities are fixed, and that teachers can influence students’ mindsets. The beginning of the new school year is a great time to establish your classroom as a growth mindset environment. Here are some tools that you can use to lay a foundation for growth all year: 1. Growth Mindset Framing Tool 2. Welcome Back letter for students 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. the Brainology® blended learning curriculum to bring a growth mindset to your students. 8. the Mindset Works® EducatorKit teacher professional development and tools. 9. 10.

Sign up for the Growth Mindset Digest to receive monthly newsletter with tips, news and articles by experts and practitioners on putting the growth mindset into practice. And finally, check out this video about all the additional resources we offer to help educators and students build a growth mindset: Step-It-Up-2-Thrive | Welcome to the Resource Center – Mindset Lesson #1. The Scale of the Universe 2. Maths with Pizzazz. Gratitude: A Powerful Tool for Your Classroom. Would you like to improve the culture in your classroom and your life? Try gratitude. Based on my ten years of teaching experience, this is the most powerful tool that I know. Gratitude has empowered me to teach more effectively, appreciate my individual students, grow in my profession, and enjoy life.

Utilizing gratitude, I am able to model one of the most important lessons in life, having a positive attitude, especially about the aspects of life that challenge me. Gratitude Journal To get started in your classroom with gratitude, I recommend actually writing your own gratitude list for a few weeks and feeling its power.

My students use a composition book and start every day by writing five gratitudes. Thanks for ___________________________. Once a week, we go around the class and share our favorite gratitude. In addition, I suggest that the students should be specific. Exercising the Muscle Visible Change Recent research by two leaders in the field of gratitude and education, Dr. Dr. Flipped_learning_research_report_0.