Expectations Assignment
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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:
Grading Criteria—24 points
Assessment
Item
1
2
3
#1
One or two reactions.
Response includes loose
connections to the podcast.
One or two reactions.
Response makes personal
connection with specific content
in the podcast.
At least three reactions
Response makes personal
connection with specific content in
the podcast.
#2
Response is 2 – 3
sentences.
Response vaguely
addresses how
expectations and
learning/performance are
connected.
Response is 3 – 4 sentences.
Response addresses how
expectations and
learning/performance are
connected. Response reflects
why the rat research is important
for teachers.
Response is 4 – 6 sentences.
Response thoughtfully addresses
how expectations and
learning/performance are
connected based on labels.
Response reflects why the rat
research is important for teachers.
#3
Table is somewhat
complete and includes at
least one bullet for each
cell.
Table is mostly complete and
includes at least two bullets for
each cell.
Table is complete and includes at
least three bullets for each cell.
#4
Response includes 1
implication for educators
with supporting evidence.
Response includes 2
implications for educators with
supporting evidence.
Response includes at least 3
implications for educators with
supporting evidence.
#5
Response includes 1 way
that neuro diverse learners
may be impeded. Full
Sentences are used.
Evidence for each
statement is included.
Response includes two ways
that neuro diverse learners may
be impeded. Full Sentences are
used. Evidence for each
statement is included.
Response includes at least three
ways that neuro diverse learners
may be impeded. Full Sentences
are used. Evidence for each
statement is included.
#6
Response compares Annie
Fetter’s prompts to the
children vs. the other two
adults’ prompts.
or
Response compares the
responses/thinking that
Annie Fetter elicits
compared to the other
adults.
Response compares Annie
Fetter’s prompts to the children
vs. the other two adults’ prompts.
(One comparison)
Response compares the
responses/thinking that Annie
Fetter elicits compared to the
other adults.
Response compares Annie
Fetter’s prompts to the children vs.
the other two adults’ prompts. (At
least two comparisons.)
Response compares the
responses/thinking that Annie
Fetter elicits compared to the other
adults.
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#7
One characteristic of N&W
are identified and justified.
or
Response includes little or
no evidence from the video.
Two characteristics of N&W are
identified and justified.
or
Response includes loose
evidence from the video.
At least three characteristics of
N&W are identified and justified.
Response includes evidence from
the video.
#8
Habit of mind is not clearly
described.
or
How N&W supports the
habit of mind is insufficiently
justified.
Habit of mind is generally
described.
How N&W supports the habit of
mind is sufficiently justified.
Habit of mind is correctly and
specifically described.
How N&W supports the habit of
mind is sufficiently justified.