Growth Mindset


Growth Mindset Plan
By: Mitch Madden 

I feel the growth mindset is very important for a person to grow their knowledge and develop as individuals. I am a firm believer that the learning process is a lifelong journey. My goal is to promote the growth mindset within my classroom to the students along with my co-workers within our district. I help with the integration of technology on our campus and feel I can relay the growth mindset action through leading by example. I am going to challenge myself to try new products and resources within my own classroom, which will allow me to pass the examples down to my students and co-workers. If I do not know something then I will take the mindset of I don’t know it yet and keep working towards learning the resource. I will teach this mindset of yet to others as we develop the growth mindset on campus.

I feel that it is very important to incorporate technology within the learning environment and is an excellent way to help students take risk and develop a growth mindset. I have created my first PowToon video that I will be showing to my classroom as we will work on activities to show:

1.      How to hear your “fixed” mindset voice
2.      Recognize that you have a choice
3.      Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice
4.      Take the growth mindset action

I feel leading by example and showing students how I am taking a risk in creating new technology resources will be critical pieces of the puzzle in having my students develop a growth mindset. We have used Google classroom within my classroom all year, but I want to expand this along with utilizing a classroom webpage and a YouTube channel. This will allow me to better showcase examples of technology and project base activities that I will be creating as I go outside my comfort zone in accepting new challenges. My goal is to have my students follow and find new inventive ways to showcase their work by challenging their minds through taking risk on developing new projects by trying new technological resources. I will be teaching my students how fixed mindsets are people that believe their basic abilities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed. Students with a fixed mindset think they have a certain amount of knowledge and that’s it. I will teach students how to hear this fixed mindset and recognize they have a choice. I will teach students to talk back to this fixed mindset by believing their abilities can be developed. Growth mindset people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. Brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. The brain grows when you get things wrong and challenge yourself.
It will be my goal not only giving students examples of new technological resources, but to develop projects that are demonstrating meaningful work, giving students honest and helpful feedback, advice on future learning strategies, and giving them opportunities to revise their work 

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