Carol Dweck Explains The “False” Growth Mindset That Worries Her | MindShift | KQED News Carol Dweck has become the closest thing to an education celebrity because of her work on growth mindset. Her research shows that children who have a growth mindset welcome challenges as opportunities to improve, believing that their abilities can change with focused effort. Kids with fixed mindsets, on the other hand, believe they have a finite amount of talent that can't be altered and shy away from challenges that might reveal their inabilities. Dweck believes educators flocked to her work because many were tired of drilling kids for high-stakes tests and recognized that student motivation and love for learning was being lost in the process. But Dweck is worried that as her research became more popular, many people oversimplified its message. In an interview with The Atlantic, Dweck explained to reporter Christine Gross-Loh all the ways she sees growth mindset being misappropriated.
Let The River Run: Float On Down Stream A classroom is ever changing like a river, displaying the progress, continuity and outpouring of knowledge. Rapids, falls, meandering, channels, banks, and eventually estuaries and deltas where they expand and release their flow into the sea of learning. Each bend of the lesson causing a course change, each student adding a plethora of personalities and mobility of mind. The flow of a classroom is roaring when these personalities merge from individual tributaries into a channel ever changing the landscape. Every teachers goal is to have the engagement level of their classroom high. An oxbow lake is a pool of stagnate water which forms beside a winding river due to erosion and deposition. If you have ever been boating, you know there are clear safety precautions in place to keep you safe on the water. Positive relationships and team work allows rowing and sailing crews to run smoothly on the water. Being in the water lends itself to fun, hands-on activities.
Kreativitet i skolan nyckel till en bättre framtid Debatt Träning i kreativitet måste bli en obligatorisk del i undervisningen på alla nivåer från grundskola till universitet. I annat fall slösas den mesta kunskapen bort, eftersom den inte kan användas effektivt, skriver professor Per-Olof Nilsson. När rymdfarare för första gången såg jordklotet på avstånd uppstod en kognitiv förändring i deras medvetande, ”översiktseffekten”, som gav betraktarna en ny insikt om människans situation. The Overview Institute bildades i USA, för att bättre förstå tillståndet i den tunna, sköra atmosfär vi alla lever i. Om man studerar statistik (HDI-index, FN) kan man tro att mänskligheten får det allt bättre. Teknologisk singularitet Kanske är det största hotet den teknologiska singulariteten som beräknats till 2045. Problemet med den framtida utvecklingen är enligt Ray Kurzweil att den går fortare och fortare (exponentiellt) och att det därför inte, som förr, är möjligt att tackla problem när de uppstår. Måste förändras i grunden Hjärnan plastisk omformbar
4 Ways to Reduce Classroom Risk and Reach the Whole Child Intention is everything, especially when educating and nurturing children. Words matter, and specificity with vocabulary determines whether or not adult interactions with kids have the desired impact. One misguided message many teachers instill in their students is that risk-taking is good. On the surface, this may seem like a worthwhile component of social-emotional learning. Yet I reiterate to my students that generally and within reason what one thinks of as risk is not truly risky at all. Granted, even in the best of situations a student’s active participation and investment in school sometimes contain a dash of discomfort, an element of uncertainty, and an enormous amount of effort and attention. The fear of ridicule, rejection, and reversal of fortune is what really holds too many students back. Therefore, teachers should not completely dismiss risk. Reducing the Risk Factor This is why a teacher is responsible for much more than academics. Attitudes and Actions that Work
Creativity at Work | Home The Teenage Brain Is Wired to Learn—So Make Sure Your Students Know It Adolescence is an exciting time as teenagers become increasingly independent, begin to look forward to their lives beyond high school, and undergo many physical, emotional, and cognitive changes. In that last category, teenagers can learn to take charge of their developing brains and steer their thinking in positive and productive directions toward future college and career success. The brain’s prefrontal cortex, which functions as the control center for executive functions such as planning, goal setting, decision making, and problem solving, undergoes significant changes during the teenage years. The potential that comes from neuroplasticity—the capacity to change the structure and function of the brain through learning—provides the foundation for two crucial messages for middle and high school students: They have the capacity to become functionally smarter. Tools for Self-Directed Learning Don’t just read—learn. Consider the source. Create, then edit. Make a schedule—and stick to it.
The skill you need now: presentation literacy – ideas.ted.com iStock You’re nervous, right? Stepping out onto a public stage and having hundreds of pairs of eyes turned your way is terrifying. But guess what? How can this be? It’s because there’s a lot at stake — not just the experience in the moment, but in our longer-term reputation. That’s what happened when Monica Lewinsky (TED Talk: The price of shame) came to the TED stage. “Nervous is too mild a word to describe how I felt. And yet Monica found a way to turn that fear around. The brilliant woman I am married to, Jacqueline Novogratz (TED Talk: Inspiring a life of immersion), was also haunted by fear of public speaking. Indeed, everywhere you look, there are stories of people who were terrified of public speaking but found a way to become really good at it, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Warren Buffett to Princess Diana, who was known to all as “shy Di,” but found a way to speak informally in her own voice, and the world fell in love with her. That’s the power of a single talk.
Schools Often Fail to Educate, Support English-Language Learners - Learning the Language Schools across the United States often provide substandard instruction and social-emotional support to the nation's English-language learners—and fail to properly train the educators who teach them, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds. Noting that limited English proficiency remains a substantial barrier to academic success for millions of children in K-12 schools, the study explores how under-resourced schools and under-prepared educators can hinder efforts to help those students learn and master English. The committee behind the report—consisting of a who's who of experts on language acquisition and educators—also explored the struggles of specific populations of English-learners such as those with disabilities, who are less likely than their native English-speaking peers to be referred to early intervention and special education programs. Here's a link to the full report. For Further Reading on This Topic:
Vill du att ditt barn ska få höga betyg? Leta efter en stark rektor och lärare som vill samarbeta Fredrik Sandberg / TT De presenterade sin forskning under måndagen vid ett seminarium på Örebro universitet, på ett av Sveriges största utbildningsvetenskapliga möten: konferensen Resultatdialog. Under ett par dagar ska 30 olika studier presenteras, och det var många som hade hittat till sal 206 i Prismahuset för att lyssna till dragningen om hur en skola ska organisera sig för att bli framgångsrik vad gäller mätbar kunskap – alltså betyg. – Men det visar sig däremot att den rent formella organisationen inte har så stor betydelse, med lärarlag eller andra organisationsformer, sade Ulf Blossing vid presentationen. – Vi har till exempel träffat på lärare på en skola, som alla säger att de gör vad de kan för anpassa undervisningen efter just de eleverna som går på den här skolan, att alla slår knut på sig för att hitta undervisningsformer som fungerar, sade rapportens andra författare Maria Jarl. – Dessutom tycks skolledaren spela en viktig roll. Eva Ejdeholt
A27. Comprehensible Input: What Teachers Can Do - Empowering ELLs Did you get to read about Ayaka’s story in the previous article? It illustrates how Entering ELs can engage in critical thinking activities even though they are completely new to English. In Ayaka’s case, we focused on what we could do to help her learn and ignored all the rest until later. As I worked with Ayaka, I only had two priorities – first develop comprehensible input, then foster engagement. This is teacher speak for: Students can participate if they understand the content and the instructions. My first priority was to help Ayaka comprehend the instructions so that she can engage with the content. The Diagram The diagram below, divided into two sections, is the visual embodiment of these two priorities. The turquoise section denotes ways students themselves can demonstrate understanding, known as comprehensible output (Haynes, n.d), which I’ll explain in the next post. Comprehensible Input: What Teachers Can Do Direct Instruction Joint Construction Mr. Student: It stands for noun.
Sluta detaljstyra skolan | Lärarnas tidning Om debattören Rolf Ekelund är ämneslärare och skribent. Lärarna är förmodligen mer övervakade och granskade än utövare av något annat yrke. De krav som ställs på lärarna formuleras i skollagen samt i läroplanerna med detaljerade kursplaner, ämnesplaner, kunskapskrav och betygskriterier. Under de senaste åren har karriärtjänster inrättats och en större differentiering i lönesättningen börjat tillämpas. Tidigare var läraren tämligen fri i sin yrkesutövning. Allt var inte bättre förr. Enligt min uppfattning har det nu överlastade regelverket blivit kontraproduktivt. Det är nu hög tid att minska styrningen av undervisningen och återge lärarna det förtroende som tidigare visats dem, alltsedan folkskolan instiftades år 1842. Skriv du med Debattera hos oss! Välkommen att göra din röst hörd i Lärarnas tidning.
Three Things Top Performing Students Know That Their Peers Miss | MindShift | KQED News Every class has students who excel and those who don’t. The reasons behind academic performance are myriad, but when Douglas Barton and his team at Elevate Education set out to study and benchmark the most effective practices used by top students in Australia, the U.K., South Africa and the U.S. they found three common practices. The company has used its findings to coach students on the most effective study strategies. Barton says 50 – 90 percent of students say IQ has the biggest impact on their ability to get good grades. Barton says his team found 13 other variables more important than IQ to predict academic achievement including things like self-discipline and self-motivation. So his first piece of advice to students is to stop worrying about IQ. The other reason students often give for not succeeding at the level they want is that they aren’t working hard enough. One of biggest differences between top students and everyone else was that when they study, they take practice tests.
Skolan blir roligare med mobil och läsplatta i klassrummet NyheterPublicerad 15:22, 24 mar 2016 Musik. ”I min förra skola fick vi inte ens ha mobiltelefonen i klassrummet”, säger Josefine och Embla. Inga läxor. ”Läxor är en kvarleva från industrialismen. Anders Enström Är förstelärare i Matte, NO och teknik och mentor för klass 9B på Östra grundskolan i Skogås. Anders finns tillhands för sina elever dygnets alla timmar. I stället för att bli förskräckt av elevernas närvaro i sociala medier knyter Anders in det i undervisningen. Som vanligt är det ingen Hollywood-rulle med action hela tiden. Anders pausar youtubefilmen. – Frågor på det? Tamralech Molla är i gång med dagens övningsuppgifter, som finns att ladda ner i appen google classroom. – En uppgift går alltid att lösa på olika sätt. Går det att dra symmetrilinjer genom ett parallellogram? – Eller så kan jag tänka själv. Varning för falsk information Men det gäller att vara försiktig, på internet finns också falsk information. – Vi har lärt oss att jämföra information. Kunskapen finns där ute.
Response: Understanding the Benefits of a Student's Home Language (This is the second post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here.) The new "question-of-the-week" is: What is the role, if any, of an ELL student's home language in the classroom? In Part One of this series, Melissa Eddington, Wendi Pillars, Tracey Flores, Sandy Ruvalcaba Carrillo, and Mary Ann Zehr offered their thoughts. You can listen to a 10-minute conversation I had with Melissa, Wendi and Tracey on my BAM! Today, Rosa Isiah, Tan Huynh, Karen Nemeth, Sarah Thomas contribute their responses to the question. Response From Rosa Isiah Rosa Isiah, Ed. "It is hard to argue that we are teaching the whole child when school policy dictates that students leave their language and culture at the schoolhouse door" (Cummins, 2005). The number of English Learners has dramatically increased over the last two decades. Home Language and Academic Identity The home language of our English Learners plays a major role in the development of their academic identity and overall educational success.