Jo Boaler has shared these 7 norms to foster a mathematical mindset. To view more information about the norms, click here.
Our Grade 9 students complete this short course on developing their social-emotional learning skills.
Click on the image below to access a series of student self-assessment tools for each of the social-emotional learning components.
Click on the images below to access a series of student self-assessment tools for each of the social-emotional learning components. We have also created SeeSaw activities with these student self-assessments and placed them in the district SeeSaw activity bank.
Visit the "School and District Library" tab in your Seesaw Activities Library and you will see Student Self Assessments for each of the social emotional learning components. These activites are read aloud to help support our youngest learners and allows them to share their thinking using the audio tool in Seesaw.
Click on the image above to access this document. This resource presents myths, strategies to reduce anxiety and increase perseverance while creating an appropriate environment for mathematical learning.
"This strand focuses on students’ development and application of social-emotional learning skills to support their learning of math concepts and skills, foster their overall well-being and ability to learn, and help them build resilience and thrive as math learners. As they develop SEL skills, students demonstrate a greater ability to understand and apply the mathematical processes, which are critical to supporting learning in mathematics. In all grades of the mathematics program, the learning related to this strand takes place in the context of learning related to all other strands, and it should be assessed and evaluated within these contexts. "
-From Ontario Math Curriculum
Overall Expectation (Gr 1 - 8):
apply, to the best of their ability, a variety of social-emotional learning skills to support their use of the mathematical processes and their learning in connection with the expectations in the other five strands of the mathematics curriculum
Grade 9 - AA1. Social-Emotional Learning Skills
develop and explore a variety of social-emotional learning skills in a context that supports and reflects this learning in connection with the expectations across all other strands
Students who have developed a productive disposition are confident in their knowledge and ability. They see that mathematics is both reasonable and intelligible and believe that, with appropriate effort and experience, they can learn. It is counterproductive for students to believe that there is some mysterious ‘math gene’ that determines their success in mathematics. Hence, our view of mathematical proficiency goes beyond being able to understand, compute, solve, and reason. It includes a disposition toward mathematics that is personal. Mathematically proficient people believe that mathematics should make sense, that they can figure it out, that they can solve mathematical problems by working hard on them, and that becoming mathematically proficient is worth the effort.” (National Research Council, 2001)
This interactive Pages workbook can be used with your MTH1W students to help develop Social Emotional Learning Skills. The workbook has been adapted from the Jo Boaler student course.
*Please ensure that you are signed in with your DSB1 credentials in order to access it.
Click here to download the workbook
Select the ellipses (…) at the top of the screen and choose “Open In” and Pages