Category: Growth Mindset

20 Tips for Motivating Gifted Kids to Think

Read this post to learn 20 tips for motivating gifted kids to enjoy thinking deeply and tackling difficult problems by helping them develop a growth

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Julia Cook's books are great reading aloud during class meetings to spark discussions about bullying, getting along with others, grief, and friendship problems.

Raising academic standards is certainly a worthy goal, but sometimes it can have unintended consequences. To find time to teach the rigorous reading and math

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Dr. Howard Gardner first proposed Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory over 40 years ago, suggesting that IQ is not one-dimensional, and that it can’t be described

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Brain Bucks provide a fun, effective, and inexpensive way to encourage students to think outside the box and develop a growth mindset. Read this post

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Multiple Intelligence Theory and the research on Growth Mindset offer us insight into how the brain works, what it means to be intelligent, and how

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Mathematical Problem Solving: Mindsets Matter

Do you love math? Or are you convinced that the math train left the station without you long ago? No matter how you feel about

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Part Two: Crafting the Process When students struggle in math, it’s often due to their beliefs about what it takes to be successful in mathematics.

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Part One – Crafting the Problem Growth mindset is much more than a buzzword, and nowhere is this more apparent than in mathematics. Research findings

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Imagine someone asked you to describe the best lesson you ever taught. Which lesson would you choose? What do you think made that lesson so

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Math Mindsets Matter: How Can Teachers Foster a Growth Mindset in Math?

The more I learn about growth mindset, the more fascinated I am with this topic, and the more I realize I have yet to learn.

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Category: Growth Mindset

Julia Cook's books are great reading aloud during class meetings to spark discussions about bullying, getting along with others, grief, and friendship problems.

Cook Up a Caring Classroom with Books by Julia Cook

Raising academic standards is certainly a worthy goal, but sometimes it can have unintended consequences. To find time to teach the rigorous reading and math Common Core standards, many schools are cutting back on physical education, the arts, and life-skill lessons. Yet we need to remember that we aren’t teaching

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Multiple Intelligence Theory and Growth Mindset

Dr. Howard Gardner first proposed Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory over 40 years ago, suggesting that IQ is not one-dimensional, and that it can’t be described by a single number. Instead, he proposed that there are at least 8 different types of intelligence, including visual-spatial, musical-rhythmic, interpersonal, and others. While not

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Mathematical Problem Solving: Mindsets Matter

Mathematical Problem Solving: Mindsets Matter

Do you love math? Or are you convinced that the math train left the station without you long ago? No matter how you feel about it, if you’re an elementary educator, you’ll probably have to teach math at some point. Fortunately, growth mindset research and new findings about how the

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How to Turn a Word Problem into a Rich Math Task (Part One)

Part One – Crafting the Problem Growth mindset is much more than a buzzword, and nowhere is this more apparent than in mathematics. Research findings in this field are transforming our perceptions about best practices in math instruction. As it turns out, developing a mathematical mindset is more highly correlated

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