I’m knee-deep in writing college letters of recommendation right now, and while I’ve been somewhat dreading writing these because I just feel so strapped for time, All.The.Time, I’m surprisingly really enjoying this experience because I’m so inspired by what our girls have to say about Math and Learning in their Naviance profiles (these are a gift, by the way, College Counseling, thank you!). And, I just can’t keep these messages to myself. They’re too good that they have to be shared.
I worked really hard last year (and continue this year) to insert healthy doses of challenge and growth mindset into my Algebra 2 with Trigonometry class (Junior/Advanced Sophomores). And if you read any of my blogs last year, you know I was met with an equally (healthy?) amount of resistance. So reading these comments makes it all worth it:
| I am most proud of achieving a growth mindset. This was a new concept that was introduced to me throughout this class. Math has never been my favorite subject, primarily because it’s so black and white. However, I learned from this class that it doesn’t have to be. Like I said earlier, I learned it’s okay to not get the right answer all the time. Every time I made a mistake, I learned from it and my brain grew instead of me just getting frustrated with myself because I couldn’t get the right answer. I used to have a fixed mindset about math, but after taking this class I have grown to really like it because it taught me to look at math differently. Math can be fun and creative and thought provoking, it doesn’t just have to be simply going through the motions to get the right answer. My growth mindset that I learned in math class is something I have also applied to my other classes, and has changed my outlook on learning and school as a whole. |
My favorite academic memory of this class was learning about growth mindset. I can say that I have learned a lot more than just math in a math class and it has helped me outside of the classroom as well. I think that having a positive attitude toward situations will help you to be successful in any situation. I love that some of the valuable life lessons I have learned came from my math class. We started out with learning how to perfect the growth mindset in our math problems but could later apply it to our daily life as well. The thing that I am most proud of achieving in your class was perfecting the growth mindset. As we know, it was my favorite thing about the class. So technically, I was proud of each individual thing that I did in the class because every time I had the opportunity to improve, I would count that as an accomplishment.
I am most proud of achieving a growth mindset. Having a growth mindset was a major theme in this class and it really helped me learn information on my own. At first, it was hard because I was always used to teachers feeding me information, but after this class, I am able to understand information on my own.
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The road to changing the way our girls learn can be quite bumpy, but reading these comments and knowing that these girls are leaving with such confidence in themselves and their capabilities makes it all worth it.
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