"There’s been a lot of talk lately about resilience (bouncing back from adversity) and grit (persevering through challenges), including the skills associated with these processes and their importance for student well-being and academic success. Edutopia has created this curated list of resources to help educators and parents follow the discussion and create home and school environments that provide supports and opportunities to help students thrive."
" better understand student engagement, challenge the myths around it, and make it a higher priority"
[HT @cliffordshelley]
HT @nicolenmartin
Gr8 blog on growth mindset & assessment A Work in Progress: Growth Minded Assessment - http://t.co/tiNrPJraS2 #mvmiddle Thx @boadams1
"The Capulets and Montagues of early childhood have long battled over their vision for a perfect preschool education. Should young children be immersed in a core curriculum replete with numbers and letters or in a playful context that stimulates creative discovery? The ‘preschool war’ leaves educators torn and embattled politicians in deadlock. Playful learning offers one way to reframe the debate by nesting a rich core curriculum within a playful pedagogy."
HT @kellyBKelly2001
In the sixth paragraph from the END of the article, I think the reporter finally gets to a fundamental, key aspect - making space for learners to pursue their passions and interests and curiosities!
"parents and teachers expend a lot of energy getting kids to pay attention, concentrate, and focus on the task in front of them. What adults don’t do, according to University of Southern California education professor Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, is teach children the value of the more diffuse mental activity that characterizes our inner lives: daydreaming, remembering, reflecting"
HT @meghancureton
Similar to convo today http://t.co/jyDzWTTl3Y @EmilyBreite @scitechyEDU @mrsacbragg @boadams1 @ChipHouston1976 @TheRealJamCam
Three practical ways to use information gaps to stimulate curiosity:
1. Start with the question
2. Prime the pump
3. Bring in communication.
HT @MeghanCureton
http://t.co/psgz7I8lun @jbrettjacobsen @scitechyEDU @GrantLichtman @Learn21Tech @boadams1 fantastic resource for you Design peeps!
HT @dmonaco
5 Stages of Creative Problem Solving. Great "map" of meta-strategy for acting with creativity.
Connects well with DEEPdt.
Applying the 6 traits that make for sticky ideas to the field of teaching. Simple. Unexpected. Concrete. Credible. Emotional. Story. I particularly appreciate the power of #curiosity in using mystery to leverage the stickiness of the "unexpected." [Disclaimer: I love the Heath Bros. work. Really love it.] I'm not sure how I feel about some of the traditional sit-n-get examples or justifications and using "Made-to-Stick" ideas simply to make questionable pedagogy seem more palatable.