Thursday, March 5, 2015

Coincidence?

Early this morning I was highlighting and making notes in the reading for our Intermediate Math course.  I came across a passage that talked about mindset and immediately wrote two notes:  1) re-read information on Growth Mindset and look at videos from Dweck; 2) Think about how this can help your focus group student who appears to be firmly entrenched in a fixed mindset.  This student is so capable and needs encouragement and confidence building to recognize it for themselves.  Just now I was reviewing the UDL Guidelines Examples and Resources and what do I immediately find, links to both the book Mindset by Carol S. Dweck and a video of an interview.  These were exactly the tools I needed.  Was this planned?  Or is this just the happy "coincidence" of carefully coordinated and planned instruction?  I hope that my students will feel those same connections across disciplines and experience what feels like real learning.

No comments:

Post a Comment