The articles that I read... https://edsource.org/2011/design-schools-so-students-become-real-workers-in-education-system/8332 https://edsource.org/2015/theres-more-to-a-growth-mindset-than-assuming-you-have-it/90780 https://edsource.org/2010/negotiate-student-achievement-goals-into-teachers-contracts/4282 https://edsource.org/2015/home-visits-are-key-to-kids-success/88510 After exploring in areas of my topic area of Setting Goals in the area of Reading with a positive growth mind set I found a few articles of interest. The first of which I found as fascinating reading was in how to design school so that students are the real workers, as though in a work force in the real world. I thought it was a great way to increase the personalized motivation and learning component to be the acting adults that kids want to be with the safety net of supervision. Having projects and learning about motivation and the brain I realize how important creativity is and and how important it is to be driven and passionate about what we do in our lives to give meaningful purpose to make the most out of what we do. All o f the information that I gather about teaching and learning are of value. Every day that I explore is valuable to my next steps and plays as a teacher influencing the lives of children. It directly gets me to inspire and motivate struggling readers and gives them purpose and have reason and drive to become better because they want to. In the second article, was the buzz words about Growth Mindset and how when it was developed it had much more meaning and purpose to what it meant. Like in the game of Telephone, people in the field of education have found ways to shorten and simplify meaning and therefore have lost a chunk of the core meaning along the way. The last two I felt went closely together. One, there was a time only a few years back where politics wanted teachers to be held more closely accountable to the effect of their teaching methodologies and put teacher achievement into their contract and be paid and given bonus' accordingly. The second, was regarding home visits and how important it is to make the connection with the family for the success of the student. Both of whom, the teacher was going way above and beyond the extent of just doing a job, but making efforts that connect to the community in an extreme way to make change in the school system. I found these articles particularly pertinent to my research action's driving question because my driving question has to do with making goals, having a positive growth mindset, and closing the achievement gap when it comes to reading goals. As far as education and learning have come, it is not at a quick enough pace as to keep up with the technological times that we are facing today. We can use all of the strategies in the world, but what are the ones that are really going to make the most change in the quickest amount of time. Testing various strategies as good teaching methods in the 21st Century to discover what is going to be the most powerful affect for change and be able to spread the word in the teaching field is what I am aiming for.
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