Mon, Dec 03, 2018 5:25 PM in Growth and Fixed Mindset
Hello!
My name is Abby Staebell and I am a pre-service teacher from Iowa. I have been researching growth and fixed mindsets within the classroom. How do we as educators help students move towards a growth mindset? What does growth mindset look like in an elementary classroom and a high school classroom? How does their homelife affect the way they view learning and their abilities? ...
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Mon, Dec 03, 2018 5:20 PM in Combining Science with Social Studies?
Brianna,
I am a preservice teacher at Wartburg and I just completed a course about teaching social studies and in the elementary classroom. Our class read the book Question Fomulation Technique by Rothstein and Santana. This book focuses on teaching students how to ask good questions. It gives a procedure for students to formulate and discuss a topic in class. For high school students, you c...
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Tue, Nov 27, 2018 5:47 PM in Keeping Students Engaged
Andrea, I am also a preservice teacher! In many of my classes and field experiences, we have discussed your question. The best advice I have is to make sure that you are making connections to the students. If they do not see how it connects to them, you cannot expect them to automatically relate the material to their lives. When students can see how something directly relates to them, they...
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