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Growth Mindset

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 What is a growth mindset? According to Carol Dweck, a growth mindset is one that embraces challenges, persists in the face of setbacks, sees effort as a path to mastery, learns from criticism, and finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others and all of theses attributes lead to ever-higher levels of achievement. With a growth mindset student's intelligence can be developed.  On the opposite end of a growth mindset is a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset is one that avoids challenges, gives up easily, sees effort as fruitless or worse, ignores useful negative feedback, and feels threatened by others success. With a fixed mindset students may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential.  As teachers we need to accept the fact that we are going to make mistakes, the most important thing is that we learn from them and then we teach our children that it's okay to mess as long as we keep trying. If no one ever made any mistakes then the world would be a very borin
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Free or Low Cost Apps That Give Students Extra Practice

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Monster Math: Fun Kids Games Link to Monster Math app This app will work on iPhones and iPads.  About: Join Maxx, the mighty monster, and explore new worlds in a fun math adventure! Monster Math learning games help your child practice addition, subtraction, multiplication or division in a quest to save Maxx’s friend Dextra. Monster Math has specially-designed, new math games for kids to help your child be the best in their grade while having fun. Monster Math games walk through basic arithmetic for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade math explorers. They are designed to give maximum number, multiplication tables, and basic long division practice. Unlike flash cards or other math apps, our learning games for kids are designed to test multiple skills at once and guide kids toward answers. Monster Math provides a brand new story and a new kind of adaptive gameplay to keep math practice at the right place for kids. Let your kids advance their learning through fun math games with Monster Math today! Wha
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My Experience in Special Education

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Hello everyone! Growing up I always wanted to become a veterinarian, a pediatrician, or a teacher. Once I decided that I would never be able to put down an animal and could not deal with sick babies (because it would make me sad) I decided teaching would be it for me! Little did I know that it would take me longer than I thought to get to where I am now, a student teacher in a credential program!     Prior to this credential program I never really had the chance to work with students with disabilities, but I am not new to being around those who work in education. My grandma used to work in the front office of a school and then became a librarian, so I would hang out with her and help her put away books after school. My other grandmother is a speech therapist and has worked for many many years, even after retirement, so she would always play games with me and my siblings and test out new methods with us. I also have two aunts who are teachers and an uncle who was a teacher and has just
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