Teaching Elementary Students About Growth Mindset with Victoria from The Mindful Apple
NOT SO “NEWS FLASH”: TEACHERS DO MORE THAN JUST TEACH ACADEMICS…Teachers wear a lot of hats, and if we’re being truly honest, our jobs come with so many more responsibilities than just teaching reading, writing, math, science, and so on.We’re often asked to play many other roles like counselor, parent, comforter, and friend. Our students come to us with not just academic needs, but also emotional and social needs, too. And to ignore these needs would be a disservice to everyone!Whether it is in our job description or not, supporting the whole child - academically, socially, and emotionally just comes with the territory.That’s why, today I wanted to revisit an interview I did about a year ago with Victoria from The Mindful Apple. Victoria is a social worker at an elementary school and she’s been on the podcast several times as our resident expert for all things social emotional learning.In our conversation, Victoria is going to talk to us, specifically, about growth mindset and the importance for classroom teachers to embrace social emotional learning instruction in their everyday teaching.Because, as you already know - whether or not you are trained as a social worker or not (and likely, you are not) teachers are still being called on now more than ever to help students with their social emotional needs. Specifically in this interview, Victoria gives us a great foundation for helping our students develop a growth mindset over a fixed mindset.In this conversation she’ll share practical ways for teachers to help their students in their classroom. FOR COMPLETE SHOW NOTES VISIT: classroomnook.com/podcast/137Links & Resources Mentioned in the EpisodeEPISODE 60: Easy Calming Strategies for Elementary StudentsEPISODE 86: Making Social Emotional Learning MORE Than a BuzzwordRESOURCE: FREE Growth Mindset Sort Victoria’s Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Connect with Victoria:Join The Mindful Apple community for your weekly brain food : tips, strategies, and resources for your social emotional tool kit! Shop social emotional resources for the elementary classroomLearn with Victoria at TheMindfulApple.comLearn more about the LINKtivity® Learning membership.