Exit Slip Sept 12, 2019

The ideas that have resonated with me mostly are the ideas of students having a "Growth Mindset", versus having a "Fixed Mindset". Lessons should promote the idea of having a growth mindset, where students get out of the idea of having to linger on the idea of school being so results based, though society will judge based on this aspect. Conrad spoke on that classrooms have a performance aspect to them, and teachers spend much more time teaching with a performance aspect to their lessons. Having this in mind, making a lesson plan should have a learning aspect first, and then a performance aspect for reflection and evaluation with a group setting to help students not feel left out as there are many students in a classroom likely struggling with the same content.

There are ideas that I don't believe enough people are aware of that Dr. Boaler went over such as how much parents affect the mindset of  the child, how math is not a gift but something that is better nurtured, and my favorite point of asking how kids would define math. Of course professors or anyone that has a passion for mathematics would find math beautiful, and students think of it as a subject that just needed to be learned. The goal then is to help students find a way to appreciate the beauty others find in the topics they have passion in. Parents should be aware that learning is a process for both school and home can help out with. It is the mindset teachers and parents support that will resonate with children.