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Assignment: Expectations and Growth Mindset Purpose: Teachers are often unaware of their expectations and the powerful repercussions of those expectations; in fact, educators may lower expectations as an act of kindness or caring for their students. Lowering expectations is usually not helpful for our students, as it results in limiting what they can learn and do. The purposes of this assignment are (1) you analyze how fine, decent people limit the ability of children to learn; and (2) you describe and evaluate a simple, yet powerful, way to incorporate inquiry into a lesson that deepens learning for students, regardless of their strengths and needs Knowledge : This assignment will help you to become familiar with differentiation and creating equitable access to content in the secondary classroom. Planning: This task will take 1.5 – 2 hours to complete. Task 1  Listen to this podcast: How to Become Batman Part 1. (You are encouraged to listen to both parts, but the assignment focuses on part 1.) https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to- become-batman  Answer these questions: 1. What is overall reaction to the podcast, reflect on whether it made you feel uncomfortable or it inspired you. What are its implications for you as a future teacher? Respond here: 2. Consider the story of the rat research project and its implications for educators. How might labeling a class as “Gifted: or “remedial” produce the same results for student learning and achievement? Respond here: 3. Compare the expectations and the consequences of those expectations for the two boys, Daniel and Adam. You can bullet your responses in the table below. Daniel Adam Expectations Consequence s 4. Write a conclusion based on your work in #2. Consider implications for educators, the connections between supporting students, expectations, and learning. Respond here:

5. This podcast offers us a chance to consider neurodiversity and how teachers and other influential adults, who might be typical learners, impede the growth of different learners. Identify ways that Daniel, Adam and/or anyone else who came to mind as you listened were, or could have been, prevented from learning more due to expectations or due to ignorance of diverse learners. Respond here: Task 2  Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Fth6sOaRA&feature=youtu.be  Answer these questions: 6. The speaker, Annie Fetter, describes first, an experience on a plane and second, an experience with a geometry problem. In both of these two stories, another adult is shocked by how Annie elicits deeper thinking from the children. Compare Annie’s prompts to the children in both stories with the other two adults’ prompts (although we don’t know how the other teacher taught her students, you can imagine). Then compare the level of thinking that Annie elicits vs the other two adults. Respond here: 7. The danger of teacher expectations is that we are often unaware of them. Most teachers do not deliberately try to reduce learning, and yet, we do that inadvertently when we lower our expectations. How does a strategy such as Notice and Wonder create a kind of work-around of our expectations? In other words, why is it such an effective strategy for creating access to content and facilitating thinking? Identify at least three characteristics of N&W and why they circumvent expectations and/or impediments to learning? Respond here: 8. Annie Fetter suggests using N&W as a means of developing a habit of mind. What habit of mind is she referring to and how does N&W help to develop that habit? Respond here:

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