One of the components of our research indicates that time is an essential part of building the ePortfolio. In 5303, we hope to provide you with plenty of time and some additional resources to incorporate into your ePortfolios.
Another aspect of our research points toward collaboration through social connectedness as a key component to learning and bringing out the best in ourselves. Collaboration and helpfulness don't just happen on their own, you have to work at creating this type of environment. Consider the ideas from Why It's Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work as you work toward building your collaborative environment.
https://youtu.be/Vyn_xLrtZaY
Explore and consider the following:
- No voice dominates and no one is the passenger.
- Social connectedness – what happens between people really counts…
- Everybody has a valid perception. When groups are highly sensitive to each other, ideas flow and grow.
- Helpfulness is when people are good at giving and getting help.
- What drives helpfulness is people getting to know each other.
- Social cohesion — built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help — this leads over time to great results.
- Bringing out the best in others brings out the best in ourselves. It is only when we accept that everybody has a value that we will liberate the energy and imagination and momentum we need to create the best beyond measure.
Power of Growth Mindset: Collaborative Discussion For this discussion, view the following two videos (Carol Dweck, “Developing a Growth Mindset” and The Power of belief — mindset and success), then participate in a discussion with your colleagues. You should use the following issues/questions as a starting point:
- How do you interpret the message of "yet"?
- How will adopting the growth mindset change the way you learn?
- Consider how the growth mindset can change the acceptance of feedback.
- Can the growth mindset help limit some of your own or your students' preoccupation with grades?
- What resources (content, video, media, etc.) might you use to learn more about the growth mindset?
- Review the graphic below and compare and contrast the Fixed Mindset to the Growth Mindset and consider where you are on this scale.
Please remember the list of questions is for your benefit and is intended to help you focus your thinking. We are not asking nor expect you to answer each question in your discussion--rather you should use these questions to help focus on how the insights gained through this discussion will help you to add another component to your innovation plan. You will also be required to develop a Groth Mindset Plan in EDLD 5302 so this will give you a starting point to this planning process.
Carol Dweck, Developing a Growth Mindset (9:37)
The Power of Belief - mindset and success, Eduardo Briceno (10:51)
My reply:
The research on social connectedness and team dynamics provides powerful insights that I want to foster in my classroom. Promoting equal participation, diversity of perspectives, and social capital will enable collaborative creativity and problem-solving. I aim to discourage fixation on individual competition and status, which can undermine group success.
"Not yet" is such an inspiring concept - it transforms failure into opportunity. I want to integrate this idea throughout the learning journey, encouraging students to view challenges as chances to expand their abilities through determined effort. Developing a growth mindset is essential, where intelligence and mastery are not fixed but can grow through hard work.
To nurture this mindset, my feedback will praise effort, perseverance, and creative strategies. I will share the science of neural connections strengthening through practice. Students can actively train their brains to get smarter. Grades will be situated as benchmarks for improvement, not judgments of fixed ability.
I aim to learn more strategies for instilling a growth mindset from online resources and communities of practice. This mindset is crucial not just for academic success, but for unleashing each student's full human potential to positively impact their relationships, health, community, and society. By internalizing the growth mindset myself, I can more authentically transmit its principles of limitless self-development to students.
My goal is to foster an environment where the thrill of learning and collaborating to tackle complex challenges drives achievement. With the growth mindset taking root, students will feel empowered to believe in their ever-expanding capabilities. I strive to nurture both wisdom and wonder on this never-ending journey of human progress.
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