Promoting Growth Mindset Strategies with The Quantile® Framework for Mathematics

Often students are intimidated and discouraged when trying to learn mathematics. They believe they don't have the "math gene" and view their ability as limited. Research has shown how these beliefs can negatively affect performance and confidence. To counter this, students can to learn to adopt a growth mindset. The Quantile® Framework facilitates strategies to establish a growth mindset in many ways. Join us on Square Root Day for this informational webinar to:
--Learn how Quantile measures can be used to set achievable micro-goals to track progress and build confidence.
--Discover how Quantile measures can lessen frustration by identifying the supporting skills and concepts needed for readiness.
--Explore tools based on the Quantile scale that promote the learning process as they guide where students are, where they need to go, and how they will get there.
--Gain a "first look" at the new Quantile Growth Planner and see how it can help students visualize their potential and reach their life goals.

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1. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2016 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Promoting Growth Mindset Strategies with The Quantile® Framework for Mathematics April 4, 2016 - Square Root Day! Presenters: Jill Stringer, Math/STEM Consultant, WY Dept. of Education Gary Williamson, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, MetaMetrics Dave Lines, Director of Product Management, MetaMetrics
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4. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2016 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Today’s Discussion • What is a growth mindset? • Quantile measures as micro-goals • Tools based on Quantile measures • Research for growth towards College and Career Readiness • Quantile Growth Planner demonstration
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6. Growth Mindsets Preparing our students for a College and Career readiness future that embraces a love of learning, making mistakes, building persistence, and finding a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Fixed Mindset –VS- Growth Mindset
7. Embrace your Growth Mindset Realistically we are a mixture of both mindsets • Nurture growth mindsets in our students and move beyond just pushing them toward effort. • Help students identify new strategies and approaches so that effort can be productive. • Don’t praise intelligence or abilities but do praise the process and effort! Everyone has a combination of Growth and Fixed mindsets in different areas.
8. Re-Imagine Schools The authentic learning of the child is respected versus a curriculum pacing rate. School-Centric • Set grades • Set times • Grade level skills • Differentiated requirements of teaching • Uncontrolled external circles • Teach to the whole where focus is on the middle Learner-Centric • Monitor students with a growth minded target • Time not an obstacle • Fluid systems (grouping and looping) • Joy of learning • Learning rates are different for each child • Parameters of a school day
9. Learner-Centric Classroom Teachers in a learner-centric classroom: • committed to personalized learning • teach using their strengths • don’t teach 4-6 disciplines • shift from givers of information to facilitating student learning • focus becomes student learning where research shows a higher rate of student retention • support students in building a strong knowledge foundation and building positive teacher-student relationships • are grounded in reflection and revision: give constructive feed back where the use of assessment is part of the learning process • model “grit” through toughness and determination
10. • Every year in the United States, nearly 60% of incoming students need remedial work in English or Mathematics. • We lose 40% of our teachers in the first 4 years nationwide. • Many schools work under the mentality that teachers can “plug their students in” and let the curricula do the rest. • Quantile is a framework of data where we can finally push a rethinking of school-centric school practices. School-Centric Schools
11. MetaMetrics Quantile Framework • Consistent and incremental process – Students can see success on a micro level with their learning progression. They have a growth mindset of persevering through improvement and making mistakes. • Skills (particular and impending) – Because of quantile measures we can now teach to specific needs of students and validate it. These needs offer a growth mindset of training their brain learning from others, and using different strategies. • Small wins repeated over time – Our challenge is to recognize when MetaMetrics puts forth quantile measurements we now have data to make changes in the classroom over time. Quantile Framework Setting Micro-Goals
12. Samantha’s Current Micro-Goal Samantha’s micro-goal is to: “Convert measures of length, area, capacity, weight, and time expressed in a given unit to other units in the same measurement system in number and word problems.” (QSC 258) She is struggling with this particular skill. What can her teacher do? Samantha, Grade 5
13. Preskill for Converting Measurements
14. Quantile Tools and Resources www.quantiles.com
15. Samantha’s Career Macro-Goal Samantha, Grade 5 To be an electrician, Samantha must be able to: “Convert within or between American Wire Gauge (AWG), metric, and customary systems when working with electrical wire.” Applied Standards Training Achievement Record Line Items - Mathematics for Electrical, Job Corps
16. Quantile Framework Setting Macro-Goals • We can now promote personalized data and create the school and classroom shift that works for the student and the teacher. – Empower students to reach goals through a desire to learn – Monitor growth by potential • Motivate students through a joy of learning – Show that goals are obtainable • Plan for College and Career Ready – Begin with the end in mind – See effort as a path to mastery
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19. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2016 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Subjective experience of a student when matching convention is 75% Student … • is able to engage with the skills and concepts with minimal instruction • is able to solve complex problems related to the skills and concepts • is able to connect the skills and concepts with skills and concepts from other strands, and • experiences fluency and automaticity of skills 19
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21. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2016 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Comparison of College & Career Career College Content Area 75% Understanding 50% Understanding Pre-Calculus + Trig Algebra 2/Math 3 1418 1440 75th Percentile Geometry/Math 2 1358 1350 Median Algebra I/Math 1 1218 1220 25th Percentile 21
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24. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2016 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Quantile and Lexile Growth Planners 24 The Quantile and Lexile Growth Planners use student Quantile or Lexile measures to display projected growth in math or reading ability. • Parents or educators can input Quantile or Lexile measures from annual assessments • Growth Planner forecasts future student growth • Future growth can be compared to College and Career Readiness goals, peer performance, or specific career demands • Currently in development; free versions on Quantiles.com and Lexile.com, and API version for licensing to partners
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