Directions

Read about Mind Frame 2.  After you have read about the mind frame, complete the activity at the bottom of the page in your Zombie Survival Guide.  

Key Question:  How are you a change agent working with others knowing that you are truly significant in every student's life? 

Guiding Questions:  How does my classroom reflect the belief that all students can learn? How do I support all learners in my classroom?  How do I set high expectations for all learners?  

The greatest impact on student learning relates to the teacher's mindset.  Teachers need to have positive beliefs about the children in their classrooms.  The role of the teacher is to change students from what they are to what we want them to be and what we want them to understand.  To achieve this, teachers need to create scaffolded tasks that have supports in place as learners work to reach the objectives and explain their own ideas.  Students need teachers who provide feedback, worked examples, scaffolding, and redirection as needed.  Teachers are the main change agent and must activate the learning to enhance student mastery.   

  Positive Beliefs that Teachers Need to Have About Their Students

• All students can be challenged.

• It is all about strategies, never styles. 

• It is important to develop high expectations for all students relative to their starting point. 

• It is important to encourage help-seeking behaviors. 

• It is important to teach multiple strategies to all students. 

• It is important to develop assessment-capable students. 

• Developing peer interactions is powerful for improving learning. 

• Critique, error, and feedback are powerful opportunities for improving learning. 

• Don't blame the kids. 

• Handicaps of social class and home resources are surmountable. 

• There is no place for deficit thinking.  No labelling of students, nor are there low expectations of students. 

Visible Learning: The Sequel

A Synthesis of Over 2,100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement