Teachers, Mindset, Motivation, and Mastery

Amy K. Conley

doi:10.5771/9781475822168

Summary

Growth mindset, recognition, mastery, purpose, emotional connection, intrinsic motivation, and metacognition: there is more to teaching literacy and children than books and lined paper. Research in positive psychology from the last 20 years can be translated to classroom practice. Each chapter summarizes the research and then works to make it applicable to the classroom, with charts of ideas based on age, examples of effective teacher talk, and stories and explanations from both practitioners and researchers.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-2214-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-2216-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 110
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Carol Dweck’s Research No access
2. Stance: Growth Mindset for the Adults No access
3. Growing Reading No access
4. 1. Flexibility No access
  2. Strength No access
  3. Endurance No access
  4. Speed No access
  5. Technique No access
5. Growth Mindset and Common Core No access
6. Growth Mindset and Writing Feedback No access
7. Reframe Failure No access
8. The Power of Yet No access
9. 1. How Can Teachers Model Growth Mindset? No access
10. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
1. Forty Years of Research on Motivation No access
2. The Jar of Marbles No access
3. Class Pizza Parties and Other Rewards to Think About No access
4. Do Your School Punishments Reflect the Value of Reading and Writing? No access
5. The More Standardized Testing and Grades Matter, the More They Hurt Learning No access
6. Refocusing on Learning as the Prize No access
7. Talking About Growth with Conferences and Portfolios No access
8. Teachers and Rewards No access
9. Teachers and Writers Talk About Rewards and Motivation No access
10. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
1. Research on Mastery and Competence No access
2. Getting Uncomfortable No access
3. Where Failure Is a Safe Place No access
4. Goal Setting in the Literacy Classroom No access
5. 1. Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) No access
  2. Special Education No access
  3. English Language Learners No access
6. Writing Is Hard Work No access
7. Reading Is Hard Work No access
8. Teacher Mastery: An Ever-Moving Target as Well No access
9. Teachers and Writers Talk About Competence, Mastery, and Goal Setting No access
10. 1. What to Read No access
1. Research: Locus of Control, Learned Helplessness, and Autonomy No access
2. Gamification of Learning No access
3. Pace, Order, and Process No access
4. Format No access
5. Topic No access
6. Mobility No access
7. Choice of Readings No access
8. Implications for Course Design No access
9. Teachers and Writers Talk About the Importance of Choice No access
10. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
1. How Can Teachers Design Assignments with the Intrinsic Motivation Needed for Purpose? No access
2. Implications for Course Design—Real Assessments, Connecting to Their Real Lives No access
3. How Does Service Learning Affect Student Engagement? No access
4. Performance Makes It Real No access
5. Real Tasks + Real Audiences = Real Writers Really Excited About Learning No access
6. Reading: A Portal to a World of Your Making No access
7. Teacher Purpose Key to Passionate Classrooms No access
8. Teachers and Writers Talk No access
9. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
1. Creating a Safe Space to Broaden and Build No access
2. Other Ways to Positivity Besides Complimenting No access
3. Research Suggests that Social Connection Motivates More than Rewards No access
4. At the School Level No access
5. At the Classroom Level No access
6. Connecting Out No access
7. 1. Encouraging Student-centered Book Clubs No access
  2. Growing Peer Praise in Writers’ Workshop and Peer Review No access
8. 1. Modeling Working Together as Teacher Leaders No access
9. 1. How Do You Make Your Students Feels Safe? No access
10. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
1. Research about Thinking about Thinking No access
2. Reading and Writing Metacognition No access
3. General Functioning No access
4. 1. Teaching Self-reflection No access
5. Rethinking Feedback to Make Students Experts on Their Own Learning No access
6. Metacognitive Writing Strategies No access
7. Metacognitive Reading Strategies No access
8. Metacognitive Collaboration Strategies No access
9. Modeling Metacognitive Strategies No access
10. Teachers and Writers Talk No access
11. 1. What to Read No access
  2. What to Watch No access
Conclusion No access Pages 101 - 104
Index No access Pages 105 - 108
About the Author No access Pages 109 - 110