I am so thankful for the students I have this school year. The Brufftopians have done so much this year and it is only November 26th. Some of the things we've accomplished this year include beginning Kid Blog, we wrote to pen pals, completed three units in math, units in reading & writing, but most importantly we've made incredible progress with our growth mindsets. At times, I have wanted to have a fixed mindset about things. I'll think to myself, "I am really good at giving feedback in math." Then, I've thought about how I see so many students embrace their growth mindsets and I remember that my effort and attitude determine things, not my ability. I'll adjust my thinking and rescript myself by saying, "Today I am going to find student exemplars to give context to my feedback." Implementing the growth mindset in the class was most evident yesterday in P.E. class. The students were given the opportunity to design a movement, perform the movement in front of every student and have each student guess what the movement was. Just thinking how much of a risk each student would have to take makes my head spin. Why? Because in order to have students guess what your movement was, first, someone would have to be okay with taking a risk, secondly, take a risk while standing in front of the whole class, thirdly, possibly be misunderstood and asked to do it again. The students knocked it out of the park. For me to watch and observe, I was impressed see studnet embrace the challenge and push through the difficultly. So when I was asked to do the same things as my students, I wanted to balk at the request. However, I changed my thinking and embraced a growth mindset. Check out some of the students as they exercise their growth mindsets and inspired me to do great things.
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