Students’ mindsets can affect their approach to dealing with challenges in the classroom and in their lives. Teachers need to have the knowledge and skills to set goals with students and to help students develop motivation. In this task, you will develop a presentation focused on how student agency affects student mindsets, learning goals, and student motivation.
A. Create a slideshow presentation that clearly indicates each task requirement listed below is being addressed and demonstrates how you can improve student motivation in your classroom.
1. Discuss how you help students develop a growth mindset by doing the following:
a. Explain the difference between a fixed and growth mindset.
b. Submit one artifact that demonstrates how you help students develop a growth mindset (e.g., created activity, summary of student meeting, lesson summary).
c. Reflect on how the artifact in part A1b would help students develop a growth mindset.
2. Discuss how you guide students in setting appropriate learning goals by doing the following:
a. Describe one method you can use to develop learning goals with students.
b. Describe one method you can use to guide students to achieve learning goals.
c. Submit one artifact that demonstrates how you help students achieve learning goals (e.g., summary of student meeting, created activity, timeline to meet the goal, learning goals plan).
d. Reflect on how the artifact in part A2c helps students achieve learning goals and affects student motivation.
3. Analyze your use of timely and specific feedback in a lesson you have given by doing the following:
a. Describe the frequency and timing of when you provide feedback and how the feedback attributes student success to their own efforts.
b. Describe one method you can use to improve your practice of providing timely and specific feedback.
4. Discuss how you use agency to help students develop intrinsic motivation by doing the following:
a. Describe one strategy you can use to help students develop intrinsic motivation and how it contributes to student success.
b. Describe one method you can use to improve students’ development of intrinsic motivation.
B. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
