Meet the team!
Ms. Cat
Ms. Jazmine
Ms. Isabella
Ms. Ailinne
Ms. Beth
Ms. Diana
Ms. Miranda
How can we instill independence and a self-starter mindset in our students (with academics and social emotional learning) in order to help them become active participants in their learning?
Choosing our theme!
Theory of Action
If we employ Growth mindset while students are making sense of understanding that they might not be able to do something yet, but with practice, time and help from knowledgeable others, they will be able to work towards it, then students will be able to develop a growth mindset that they can do things rather than having a fixed mindset that they can’t do things. We’ll see if it’s working by looking at lesson observation data and student artwork.
Lesson Goal:
SS Learning Goal:
Task:
This year is this student’s first year at our school. His family and himself have moved around the country for the past few years. Students have assets in his love to share his thoughts, take on class responsibilities, and partake in music-related activities. He needs support with regulation while on the carpet (i.e. flexible seating), being a whole-body listener (he makes noises, gets into student space bubbles and continues when students ask him repeatedly to stop). This affects his ability to get his work done as he spends a lot of time/energy on the people around him. This affects his relationship-building with other students as they have had a negative schema (this person doesn’t respect my boundary and is “annoying”) of him so far.
This student has a love for drawing, video games (Roblox), and reading. He is a strong reader and mathematician. He needs support with staying with the group, being engaged in a way that allows him to work/listen, and participating with the whole-group plan. This student often says or does unkind things that affect his relationships with others.
PDSA Info.
As part of our Lesson Study, we worked on a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle twice. My group and I came together as a group to determine what we were noticing in our classrooms and within our individual students. After conducting our first cycle of observations and getting different ideas as to what we can be doing in the classrooms, we planned mini lessons and created behavior charts for students that needed help to get them into their self-starter mindset.
You can find the link for both PDSA cycles linked below!
Student Work!
"My Yet is a dancer!"
"My Yet is a painter!"
"My Yet is a paintbrush!"
"My Yet is a leader!"
I believe building students growth mindset at the beginning of the school year is a key action to take in order to set them up for success throughout the school year. When my group and I started to plan out what our lesson study would look like for students in grades Kindergarten - 3rd grade, instant excitement could be seen amongst all our faces. As students might come into the class with a fixed mindset, it was important for us to take into consideration the kind of lessons we should teach into. Within 12 weeks, students had made incredible growth on their work altogether in which really helped their growth mindset. The biggest thing my team and I wanted students to take away was that although while doing difficult things it may seem like it's impossible to accomplish or difficult to do, but with practice they can achieve their goals. Knowing that they can't do it "yet" is what we wanted them to understand. I feel that my group and I succeeded in our lesson study and are proud of the mindset our students are growing into on the daily!