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Giving students higher levels of text with higher levels of inquiry, these gifted students will be challenged and learn the important skill that you must work hard in order to learn something new. I want my students to recognize that mastery isn't getting something right because you already knew something! I want them to recognize early in their learning experiences that it's okay to make mistakes, in fact, if you are trying something new, you will make them often! This is what is called a growth- mindset. All too often, students who are high ability are put off to the side and expected to teach themselves without guidance. They are often ignored since they are going to do just fine on the assessments that measure the school's rating system. This causes one of two things: the first being that students will become apathetic to learning and will eventually see it as a waste of time, possibly even dropping out of school altogether. The other is that the students who are left alone, to be model students and peer tutors to their classmates learn that they are super smart. They worry that one day their "smartness" will run out and others will realize that they really aren't as smart as they thought they were. This is called a fixed mindset. Thinking that your ability level never changes, and therefore there's a fear in the back of the mind telling you not to do anything too challenging because you just might get something wrong!

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Giving students higher levels of text with higher levels of inquiry, these gifted students will be challenged and learn the important skill that you must work hard in order to learn something new. I want my students to recognize that mastery isn't getting something right because you already knew something! I want them to recognize early in their learning experiences that it's okay to make mistakes, in fact, if you are trying something new, you will make them often! This is what is called a growth- mindset. All too often, students who are high ability are put off to the side and expected to teach themselves without guidance. They are often ignored since they are going to do just fine on the assessments that measure the school's rating system. This causes one of two things: the first being that students will become apathetic to learning and will eventually see it as a waste of time, possibly even dropping out of school altogether. The other is that the students who are left alone, to be model students and peer tutors to their classmates learn that they are super smart. They worry that one day their "smartness" will run out and others will realize that they really aren't as smart as they thought they were. This is called a fixed mindset. Thinking that your ability level never changes, and therefore there's a fear in the back of the mind telling you not to do anything too challenging because you just might get something wrong!

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