Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian-America mathematics teacher, came into the limelight when 18 of his students cracked the Advanced Placement Calculus exam with flying colours. If you like to watch inspirational movies, ‘Stand and Deliver’ (1988) is a must-watch movie based on his life as a teacher.
He is a part of this post because the growth mindset is what his students portray. Whether or not he was aware of the concept of growth mindset, we would not know, but his understanding of the concept was quite deep and he implemented it quite effectively. Thankfully, today, we have a lot of information available on the concept and can use strategies to change the fixed mindset of our learners to a growth mindset.
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Let’s start with the words. Any communication where words are involved is called verbal communication. The tone of voice, rate of speech, pitch and volume are all a part of how we say those words and all of them put together form paraverbal communication.
Learner behaviour is more or less their response to what they receive from their environment. While we cannot control the rest of the environment, we can definitely control what we provide to our learners as stimulus.
Learners in Ms D’s class are highly motivated. They engage in self-regulated learning, display positive behaviour, invest their effort in building social relationships, and are achievement oriented.
