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Where the Learning Takes Place

Presented by Christie Vincent

Mindset #7 Learning Occurs at the Point of Challenge

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  • As a teacher I started wondering more about how to continually challenge my students both individually and collectively.
  • CoT Professional Development for the past five years
  • CoT Fellows for the past two years

My Journey

Long Lasting Learning

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My Most Helpful Resources…

Mindset #7 Learning Occurs at the Point of Challenge

Thinking Routines

  • Step Inside
  • What makes you say that?
  • Take note
  • Same and Different
  • Connect, Extend, Challenge
  • Peel the Fruit
  • CSI

Then the deeper, meaningful conversations in the classroom started…

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The Essence

Finding that point of challenge is key to creating a flow state in which we feel totally immersed, energized, and focused.

-Ron Ritchhart

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Teaching Students Language and Giving Them Opportunities to Develop a Growth Mindset

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Recognizing and Teaching the Point of Challenge

Where were you stretched in your learning?

Where did you push yourself?

Where did you get stuck? How did you get unstuck?

Mistakes are Lessons

Students Feel Valued

Collaborative

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Culture that Promotes Challenge

  • Motivating
  • Interesting
  • Energizing

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The Struggle

Some of the highest-achieving people in the world are those who have struggled the most. Simply put: if we are not struggling, we are not learning.

-Ron Ritchhart

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Take a few minutes to think of a point of challenge currently in your life and discuss it with your group and discuss how it makes you feel.

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Different Struggles/Learning Opportunities Same Enviornmet

A zookeeper has 13 sticks of bamboo to feed 2 pandas. How much bamboo can each panda get if the bamboo is shared equally among the pandas?

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Slow Revel Graphs and Opportunity Have a Point of Challenge for all Learners

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I Used to Think…Now I Think…

I used to think finding the point of challenge for each of my students was very difficult. Now I think if given the appropriate opportunities students can not only discover their own points of challenge but they can explain them.

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