Mindset and Motivation
What is the belief that you can improve your intelligence and grow your mind if you work hard?
Growth Mindset
This mindset helps students persist through challenges and stay focused on long-term goals.
Academic Tenacity
What is one of the three categories of fostering academic tenacity?
Challenging
Scaffolding
Belonging
What is the belief that you cannot do much to change your intelligence?
Fixed Mindset
When students feel this in school, they’re more likely to engage and persist academically.
Sense of belonging
True or False:
High Standards should be unachievable
False
Why is praising effort better than praising intelligence?
Praising effort helps build resilience
True or False: Teachers who have a growth mindset can cause students to adopt this mindset
True
What are the two strategies for scaffolding
Cognitive and Motivational
What is one quality of a tenacious student?
Look toward their long-term goals
Feel a sense of belongingness in school
See how effort is positive and necessary for growth
Are resilient after they fail
What is an intervention that affirms student values and helps them feel more accepted, this can reduce achievement gaps.
Identity
What is the outcome for students who feel cared for by their teachers and have the sense of belonging within the school?
They are more likely to perform better, have more motivation/interest, reduced behavioral issues
How does having a growth mindset help students in school?
Students begin to show more effort so they can succeed
BONUS!!!
Who is the best education professor?
Dr. Whitaker
Finish the quote:
Holding students to high standards and giving them the attention and scaffolding they need to meet those standards sends the message of personal concern. In a sense, good teachers are like good ________ —at times authoritative but consistently caring
Parents