Aim: To outline a few pedagogical implications of mindset theory and routes towards nurturing growth mindsets
Key points
- Key phrase from kids: "I'm not smart". Response: "Become smarter through learning".
- What individuals believe about concept of ability is more important than 'ability' itself
- Meaningful success requires effort
- (perfect) practice makes perfect --> OR practice until you cannot get it wrong!!
- Motivating students.... Intrinsic: doing something for the thing itself - a focus on process
- Keywords: drive and curiosity
- Praise... Good EFFORT rather than good WORK
- Students to self-monitor their own work --> they have to do the work = most effective feedback
To do
- Reinforce students seeking challenges... Create worksheets to challenge pupils (as extension tasks?)
- Look into mindset stickers
- Trying out meta starters/mains/desserts:
Links
ICT department Google Doc HERE
Key issues
Time to learn
'winging it'
Keeping one step ahead
Dry subject - trying to 'pimp' up the resources/lessons
Programming - not comfortable 'modelling' it in front of the class
Hard to motivate students to WANT to learn
Impact on pupils
Attitudinal surveys - Finding out if their subject knowledge has improved, they are the feeling more motivated, etc
Admin
Alison Annetts and Nicky Henry - admin
mslc@soton.ac.uk
Support in school
Tig to teach 11m7!!
Computing with Tig - Intro
Definition of Computing: Solving real world problems using computers
History of Booting - boot-strapping - use as a starter task
History of Spam - spamming a thread using the Monty Python SPAM clip - use as a starter task
Computational thinking starters e.g. chicken crossing the road solution
GIF images have 256 colours (128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1)
Abstraction (London tube map) --> what we turn it into
Decomposition --> breaking it down into manageable chunks
Systems analysis --> a problem solving technique that decomposes a system into its component pieces
