I truly believe that children are born gifted. These children share certain characteristics and tendencies, such as, being quick learners who need little repetition to solidify skills, extremely curious, keenly observant, have a vivid imagination, have original ideas, highly self-critical, and tend to prefer older company. Gifted kiddos are not only academically high, but they tend to excel in other areas, like sports, music and art. It's simple, they excel at it all. This can be a double edge sword, because they expect to succeed in everything with little effort.
When the going gets tough, I mean real tough...they tend to give up. They are used to hearing, "You're so smart!", "You're brilliant, you didn't even have to study for the test!", "You're the best player on the team and you just started playing baseball!" Although these well intended praises are true, it sends a certain message to our kiddos. They begin to believe that their intelligence and abilities are fixed and it leads directly to a fear of straying beyond their safety zone. This can also lead to the impostor syndrome.
This week in class we learned about Fixed and Growth Mindset. Fixed Mindset means that you believe that intelligence is fixed and doesn't change and Growth Mindset means that you believe that intelligence and natural abilities can be improved upon. We brainstormed and wrote phrases that promoted a Growth Mindset. The kiddos identified a personal weakness and wrote a way they could improve in this area. You can find these items in your child's binder. To learn more about Carol Dweck's Mindset study please watch the videos below (we did not watch these in class).
When the going gets tough, I mean real tough...they tend to give up. They are used to hearing, "You're so smart!", "You're brilliant, you didn't even have to study for the test!", "You're the best player on the team and you just started playing baseball!" Although these well intended praises are true, it sends a certain message to our kiddos. They begin to believe that their intelligence and abilities are fixed and it leads directly to a fear of straying beyond their safety zone. This can also lead to the impostor syndrome.
This week in class we learned about Fixed and Growth Mindset. Fixed Mindset means that you believe that intelligence is fixed and doesn't change and Growth Mindset means that you believe that intelligence and natural abilities can be improved upon. We brainstormed and wrote phrases that promoted a Growth Mindset. The kiddos identified a personal weakness and wrote a way they could improve in this area. You can find these items in your child's binder. To learn more about Carol Dweck's Mindset study please watch the videos below (we did not watch these in class).
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Our structures lesson this week: The Strength of Shapes
Students were expected to:
Learning should always be this fun! #theynamedtheegg #eggward #studentvideographer #thestrengthofshapes
Students were expected to:
- discover the strength of domes and arches by conducting a experiment using the scientific method.
- understand that tension and compression are distributed by various shapes in architecture.
Learning should always be this fun! #theynamedtheegg #eggward #studentvideographer #thestrengthofshapes