Full description not available
M**R
Great Classroom and Parenting Resource
This book is a great resource for encouraging and developing a growth mindset in your classroom or child. There are many ideas, lesson plans, materials, charts, guide questions and journal entries that encourage your own development of a growth mindset along with your students. One of the authors of the book is a Kindergarten teacher, so many of the anecdotes come from her classroom experience. I would like to challenge the notion put forth by another reviewer that this book is too dull for middle school students. I have worked with students from K-8 and believe that the material in this book can easily be modified to be applicable and engaging to any student in those grade levels. The authors actually provide modification strategies for many of the lesson plans to make them more appropriate for whatever grade level you teach. I could not put this book down while I was reading it and found it to be very enjoyable to read. I finished it in less then a week and it caused me to want to read many more of the books that they recommend for further growth in the last chapter. I look forward to implementing many of the strategies recommended in this book in my classroom next year. I have gained tips for working with my own toddler as to how to help them begin to develop a growth mindset now.
J**H
Brilliantly Research Based and Practical (Without making you read all of the research.)
Maybe you've got a whole classroom full of small humans to teach and aren't awash in leisure hours to read something technical.This book is for you.I'm excited to use this with my students. I think it will really help some of them discover their abilities. I'm also super excited that it's all based on scientific evidence. It's a great book though, because you get just enough of the science to help you see why the techniques will be effective. It doesn't dwell for days on the science, because good grief, Charlie Brown, you have enough to do. You just want to implement the science, not get another degree in it! We're looking for a way to help students; not a way to get more college credits. (Or maybe we are, but let's try not to think about grading winter finals and being in school at the same time. haha)P.S. Please disregard my grammar. I teach math. ;-)
D**A
Very easy to put activities into practice!
Really love the month to month guide. Activities and lessons are doable and despite another review that tjis was "too elementary" I am implementing it with 9th graders just fine. It's a great book for growing your brain!
A**L
Classroom necessity
Growth mindset has always been something I have wanted to incorporate into my classroom. I knew when I started teaching I wanted it to become a daily habit and reflection for my students. I wasn't sure where to start when I entered the classroom and how to really engage students and get them to "buy into" the growth mindset idea. This book was a fantastic tool this school year, especially with so much crazy going on! The authors made it easy to follow and easy to read. There is plenty of room for reflections about my own teaching as well as incorporated lesson plans to teach students about the process. This is a book I highly recommend to anyone who wants to establish a classroom of growth rather than passive behavior.
K**R
good guide
Practical, includes some self-assessments to face your own mindset as a teacher.I am a college professor, this is aimed at K-12 but still useful.
L**R
Very well written and full of great ideas. I'm an academic coach at a state ...
Very well written and full of great ideas. I'm an academic coach at a state university, so I had to make some changes to fit the age of my students but it really wasn't difficult to do since the mindset information is outlined nicely in the book.
L**A
I love using this with my students
Solid strategies, I love using this with my students. So many of them have a mindset of apathy and indifference. We discussed this exact issue this morning in our PLC meeting. Students only seem to be motivated by extrinsic rewards, and intrinsic rewards seem to be difficult to instill. The framework in this book is helping us to change our students' minds and hearts.
H**9
Just wonderful....
From the second you open this book and read through the first few pages, excitement builds as to what this could look like in a classroom, a grade level or across a school! From September's 'Everyone can Learn!' and October's 'My Brain is like a Muscle,' I can't wait to use this with students! So many practical and interactive activities and great explanations and capacity building for educators.
A**M
Is coach book but for Teachers
Although the book is good and is suitable or designed having in mind school teachers and not suitable for personal use.
P**N
Great book
Great book. Some good ideas.
C**R
some good basic starter ideas
Will be putting this into use in classroom, some good basic starter ideas.
J**G
Five Stars
A month by month guide to implementing Growth Mindsets into your school.
M**Y
Learning environment with high expectations for all students
This book challenges all educators to move away from deficit thinking and practice a learning mindset rich in high expectations where ALL students can learn.
Trustpilot
2 months ago
3 weeks ago