by Annie Brock (Author), Heather Hundley (Author)
Choosing the Right Words
From the authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this handy companion is a must-have if you want to empower students through purposeful praise and feedback. Here are the key strategies, helpful tips and go-to phrases for helping students transition thoughts, words and actions into the growth-mindset zone.
Designed for ease of use and packed with over a hundred specific examples, this book offers a say this, not that approach to communication that will help you model and cultivate growth mindset in the classroom. For example:
Fixed Mindset
- You're so smart.
- You're wrong.
Growth Mindset
- l like how you used different strategies to figure out these problems.
- That didn't work out for you. How could you approach the problem differently?
Format: Teacher's Edition
Pages: 160
Edition: Teacher’s
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 17 May 2018
ISBN 10: 1612437915
ISBN 13: 9781612437910
Heather Hundley is an elementary educator with 12 years of teaching experience and coauthor of the bestselling book The Growth Mindset Coach and The Growth Mindset Playbook. She currently serves as a kindergarten teacher in Kansas. Heather has an elementary education degree from Washburn University and master's degrees in education and in school leadership from Baker University. She has served as a supervisor for pre-service teachers and as a guest lecturer with Washburn University. Heather was recently nominated for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.