Transitions Can Be Fun

Transitions are fun when you think about them from the safety of your current safe-zone situation. You know, like when you think about all the things you don’t like about your current situation and think, wow. Good thing I can transition the heck outta here. When you don’t actually face the icky things and just think about escape pods all day, you can neglect to consider the things you do like. And when I say consider, I mean enjoy. You can neglect to enjoy the good things that happen. Yep. I guarantee you there are definitely some good things too. Look. There. It’s the coworker that know’s your Starbucks order. Or I dunno, the fact that you always get Sundays off. Your good thing is there. I promise.

And…when all you think about is escape pods and mysterious sink holes that lead to Palm Springs or whatever, you’re not actually enjoying this sometimes arduous, often more arduous in your head, fantastic journey you’re on called life. 😉

 

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Growth Mindsets

What is a growth mindset?

How can we support our students through a fixed mindset?  Letting students know they’re supported seems to help and walking them through things that are really hard for them seems to help, but otherwise if they don’t want to do the work, there’s not much else to do about it.

I struggle with brainstorming ways to encourage students to work through fixed mindset, pretty much daily. My philosophy (and PLEASE share your philosophy because I’d love to know if my thoughts on this are fixed) is that students have to first choose to do the work involved to change their mindset. They need to turn their “I can’t” into I CAN! If they don’t choose to do that…they’re lost.

Do you guys face this? What techniques do you employ? Do you feel responsible if they give up?