As I reviewed your classwork this weekend I was pleased to see the improvement in your abilities from last year. Mrs. Jacobs and Mr. Kohlmann mentioned to me that they introduced the idea of a "Growth Mindset" based on the work of Carol Dweck and Lisa Blackwell. The scientific evidence shown on the Mindset Works website indicates that having a growth mindset leads to higher performance by students.
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Keeping in the spirit of Growth Mindset and the excellent improvement I hope we continue to make this year, your first assignment today has three steps...
- Review Powerschool and finish (or make a note in your planner to finish) any overdue or late assignments.
- Review your blog and read any comments or posts I have added.
- Look at the infographic on the Growth Mindset webpage. Be sure to hover over the green circles to see the pop ups explaining the scientific evidence. Make a blog post describing how one of the growth mindset characteristics (choose one or more bulleted items below) helped you complete your assignments to the best of your abilities last week.
- take on new challenges
- persist in difficult tasks
- understand that effort is the path to mastery
- learn from criticism
If you have a fixed mindset please describe how having a growth mindset would cause you to think differently about your assignments.
- find inspiration in the success of others
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