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Mindsets and Success Learning targets: I can identify two types of mindsets. I can determine implications for how the mindset a teacher, student, or parent has might affect teaching and learning. “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures…I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.” Benjamin Barber, sociologist

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Mindsets and Success

Learning targets: I can identify two

types of mindsets. I can determine

implications for how the mindset a teacher, student, or parent has might affect teaching and learning.

“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures…I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.”

Benjamin Barber, sociologist

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Exploring Core Beliefs

Complete the anticipation guide prior to reading the chapter entitled, “The Ideal Learning Culture.”

Jot down evidence for and/or against each statement as you read.

Discuss the implications for teaching and learning with your tablemates.

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Meaningful Learning Environments

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Discuss additional implications with your tablemates.

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Mindsets and Success

Learning targets: I can identify two

types of mindsets. I can determine

implications for how the mindset a teacher, student, or parent has might affect teaching and learning.

“A few modern philosophers…assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism…With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”

Alfred Binet, inventor of the IQ test

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“I know most of you can’t spell your name. You don’t know the alphabet, you don’t know how to read, you don’t know homonyms or how to syllabicate. I promise you that you will. None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Well, goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success. You will read hard books in here and understand what you read. You will write everyday…But you must help me to help you. If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”

Marva Collins