Why What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do
For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know.
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Establishing A Culture Of ‘Can’ In Your Classroom
it’s important to realize that a ‘culture’ is comprised of tangible factors (students) and intangible factors (curiosity), and ever-present.
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How Games Naturally Promote A Growth Mindset
In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.
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25 Ways To Develop A Growth Mindset In Children
Athletes will rarely think, “I simply cannot make this shot.” Students–for whatever reason–are more likely to say, “I’m not good at tests.”
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25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset
Help students develop a growth mindset with these sentence stems, categorized by collaboration, creativity, and other SEL pillars.
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5 Strategies For Creating A Genius Mindset In Students
Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.
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8 Strategies For Helping Students Learn To Ask For Help
Help students understand that ‘help’ is the norm in the creative, scientific, and professional world. Asking for help is OK and necessary.
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9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
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Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
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10 Ways To Honor Mistakes In The Learning Process
From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.
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How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset
How can you help your students develop a growth mindset? Ask them to add ‘yet’ to the end of their ‘I can’t do this’ statements.
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From Static To Constructionist Learning
My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.
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I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students
I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.
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10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
By using uniform standards and assessment forms, our education system often punishes errors, rather than rewarding risk-taking.
