As far as my
goal #1, I believe I’m right on track. I am creating lists of resources that I
can use with my students on daily lessons and performance-based assessments. My
PLN has resources that keep me aware of new technologies, news in my content
area, and useful resources that I can use to create lesson plans. Because I’m a
foreign language teacher, I have to help my students develop, as Carol Dweck describes, a
Growth Mindset. For them to be successful in the acquisition of a new language,
they need to be encouraged for their persistence, their strategies, their focus
in class, and their ability to learn from their mistakes. Different types of
resources help me do this because they provide students with multiple
approaches to an activity, and that gives me an opportunity to provide
individualized feedback to each student, based on the process and method that
they chose. As Eduardo Briceno says in his
video “The Power of
belief,” I need to change my students mindset from I can’t say these words
to I can’t do these words yet.
For my goal #2,
I’ve started to create my infographic on Information Fluency and Inquiry and
develop a curated list of resources about ethical uses of information. This
will benefit my students and it will help me develop a greater understanding of
where to find information, how to analyze it, which one to select, and how to
use it in my classroom in an ethical and professional way.
As far as goal
#3, this weeks readings and videos have made me aware of changes that I need to
make in my classroom and in the way that I provide feedback to my students. In
the text Even
Geniuses Work Hard, Carol Dweck says “Meaningful
learning tasks need to challenge every student in some way,” and I need to make
sure that I plan activities that reach every student at their current level,
that are relevant and can be connected to real life situations and that are
mostly focused on performance demonstration of knowledge. I need to act mainly
as a mentor, provide constructive feedback, engage students in conversations
about alternative strategy uses, and focus on the process of research instead
of the final product of that research.
Hello, just like you I also need to rethink how I praise and give feedback to students so that students develop a growth mindset as described by Carol Dweck. Now that most things come so easily to students without the responsibility of working for it students need to develop a growth mindset to understand that setbacks and mistakes are a natural part of learning and growing. They also need to know that getting it right takes time and effort no matter who you are. I like the idea of saying “not yet” to alert students to know that it is alright to keep trying.
ReplyDeleteI work with adults learners. Feedback is important on all levels. I've actually had to learn to connect my feedback in more personal ways to benefit individual learners. For example, some student like public forms of praise. While, other students require a little more 1:1 guidance.
ReplyDeleteI think that your infographic will serve as a cool resource for the students vs. having the traditional printout. Those seem to work better than dense readings or having to go to multiple locations to grasp the concept of Information fluency. Having it all in one visual aid allows students to actually SEE and understand the connections. Great work!
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