Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Mistakes and the Growth Mindset

Here are some of my favourite bits and pieces from these two modules.

-When your brain is struggling that's the best time for growth.

-We want students to be struggling and getting it wrong at times.

-"I want being challenged to become the new comfort zone, not this is easy."

-"If students are afraid of mistakes, then they're afraid of trying something new, of being creative, of thinking in a different way."

-Mathematical Practice 1 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

-Encourage students to be sense makers.

-Reward students for experimentation and trying things out, not for correct answers, but for having ideas and being willing to test them out.

-Effort is the secret of life.

-In this class mistakes are expected, inspected and respected.

-highlight mistakes positively in feedback and then get them to correct their own work.

-Don't teach to tiny curriculum standards but to big ideas in maths.

-Covering everything doesn't mean students learn everything.

-When students finish work have them think deeper, ask them to think of other problems similar to those they have been working on and work on those.


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