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Growth Mindset Through Intervention
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A majority of our explicit growth mindset lessons came from The Growth Mindset Coach: A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve, but a few of my teachers, given the needs of their student population, added lessons collected elsewhere, some of which have been culled below.

Samples from our work

Diamond Notes: Note taking strategy borrowed from the Jo Boaler conference @ Stanford

Integrated Math 1 Team Test: Sift in assessment strategy

Team Role Mat: 4 person group work strategy

Fractions in the Real World: : introductory lesson for when teacher discussed fractions in Personal Finance, example of open answers and thinking about concepts in different ways

Polynomial Graph Analysis: Notes for groups to go through together during a class period (Pre-Calculus), allowing teacher to maximize the green-yellow-red cups (traffic lighting)

Traffic Lighting

Traffic Lighting was one of the most fundamental shifts we made within our program at all levels as it supports quality instruction by:

-reinforcing gradations of understanding versus merely right and wrong (growth mindset)

-feedback and reciprocal teaching

-targeted populations for both the intervention teacher and regular teacher

-self-assessment / reflection for students to think about their place in learning

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