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Growth Mindset, Mathematics and Transitions

Productive Struggle for Deeper Learning

Gianna Helling and Nancy Steinhauer

The Power of Yet

Our Learning Goals for Today

• Share the experience of our “SSLN” – Student Success Learning Network – Principals and teachers learning together (across boards) with support from program staff

• Learn about Growth Mindset and Metacognition and the role they play in raising student achievement in mathematics

• Show one example of teaching growth mindset and metacognition in the classroom and the impact

• Provide strategies and resources for further learning

What’s the Big Idea?If students, teachers, principals and parents understand and explicitly teach the role of mindset and metacognition in mathematics, improvement in student achievement in math will be on-going and lasting through high school.

Learning Goal for SSLN

Principals and teachers will learn about growth mindset, metacognition, and their impact on the learning of mathematics. School teams will also develop a vision of highly effective mathematics teaching and a three part math lesson that incorporates the explicit teaching of growth mindset and metacognition.

What is Mindset?

Chalk and Talk Gallery Walk

• On green stickies, write what you know about growth mindset – one idea per sticky (2 minutes)

• On blue stickies, write what you know about fixed mindset – one idea per sticky (2 minutes)

• Place your stickies on the appropriate posters (1 minute)

• Read other posters, and add your comments, questions, responses, and next steps (5 minutes)

Growth vs Fixed Mindset

Sal Khan and Carol Dweck on Growth Mindset

What Does a Highly Effective Math Program Look Like?

“If you were asked to observe a teacher’s math classroom for one or more lessons, what would you look for to decide whether the mathematics instruction is high quality?” -K. Katterfeld, 2013

Think on your own for 1 minute and jot down your ideas.

Share your ideas with a partner? Do you see any themes or categories?

If you had narrow it down to 4 broad categories, what would they be?

Best Evidence Synthesis on Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics

Effective mathematical pedagogy is a coherent system rather than a set of discrete, interchangeable strategies. This pedagogical system encompasses:

• A non-threatening classroom environment

• Instructional tasks

• Tools and representations

• Classroom discourse

Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics/Pangarau by Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw, New Zealand (2007)

New Math Poster

Growth Mindset

Grit

Independent work

Organization

Initiative

Collaboration

Self- Regulation

Responsibility

ZestSelf-

Control

Social Intelligence

Perseverance

Optimism

Curiosity

Gratitude

Conscientiousness

Self Discipline

Mindsets and Mistakes in Math

Jo Boaler

Celebrate Mistakes

You Can Change Your Mind

You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.

Carol Dweck, Mindset, p.16

Team 218’s Brains Grow!

Team 218: Changing Our Mindsets

Team 218 Goes to Stanford

Team 218 Goes to Stanford

Team 218 Talks Math

Spirit Day School-Wide Survey

https://sites.google.com/site/the218team/math/real-world-math

Presenting with Augmented Reality (Aurasma App)

Team 218: Metacognates!

Building Engagement for Learning at the School Level

• Principal as Co-Learner• Principal as Cheerleader• Principal as Archivist• Principal as Trust-Builder

https://storify.com/giannahelling/talk-to-learn

Follow Gianna @giannahelling

Changing the Way We Praise

Do Not Say Do Say

You are really athletic! You really work hard and pay attention when you are on that field!

You are so smart! You work hard in school and it shows!

Your drawing is wonderful; you are my little artist

I can see you have been practicing your drawing; what a great improvement!

You are a great athlete. You could be the next Wayne Gretzky!

Keep practicing and you will see great results!

You always get good grades; that makes me happy.

When you put forth effort, it really shows in your grades. You should be so proud of yourself. We are proud of you!

Adapted from Ricci, Mary Cay, Mindsets in the Classroom. Waco, Texas: Prufrock Press, 2013.

Instead of Telling Students What to Do…

Back to the Chalk and Talk Gallery Walk

• Review the charts we created at the beginning of this session

• How has your thinking changed?

• Add your comments to the existing charts

Key Learnings from SSLN

The importance of consolidation: Relates to growth mindset because it places the focus on the difficulties encountered in the process and how to work around them.

The teacher determines the tone by providing a safe, risk-taking environment where students feel that errors are a natural part of

their learning process. Process first, product second.

Give them time. Listen. Mistakes are not failures.

Learning comes from the struggle and challenge. (For the teacher too – never stop learning math!)

Teach growth mindset explicitly and give opportunities for reflection – the mindset of the teacher is just as important as the

mindset of the student

Q & A

Ticket out the Door

• Take your paper and unfold it

• Now fold it into thirds

• In one third, write 3 things you learned/gained from today’s session

• In the next third, write 2 questions you still have

• In the last third, write at least 1 thing you will take away and use next week

Stay in touch!

Gianna Helling @giannahellinggianna.helling@tcdsb.org

@giannahelling

Nancy Steinhauer @NLSteinhauernancy.steinhauer@ontario.ca

@NLSteinhauer

#GrowthMindset