Lathrop Intermediate School Home of the Spartans College Prep Lesson Wednesday, November 30, 2016 Respect Responsibility Safety

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This week’s CP Teachers: please feel free to continue on with the discussions from last week (ppt slides that follow are the same as last week. find the spot you stopped at and continue from there). Respect Responsibility Safety

By the end of this lesson, students will understand: Objectives By the end of this lesson, students will understand: Intelligence can be developed The brain is malleable Doing challenging work is the best way to make the brain grow stronger and smarter Respect Responsibility Safety

Watch this video about Growing Your Mind Respect Responsibility Safety

Let’s discuss the following: How do people become more intelligent? How does the diagram of the neurons “At birth vs. at age 6” demonstrate this? What about the second diagram of the nerves of the animal living in a cage vs. an animal living with other animals and toys? How are our brains like muscles? When do our brains grow the most? 10-minute Respect Responsibility Safety

Watch this video to learn how the brain can be rewired as we learn and think differently. Neuroplasticity Respect Responsibility Safety

In this story, I’d like for you to pay attention to Many of us have faced challenges in our lives whether it is an academic challenge, a social-emotional challenge, we have overcome our situation(s). As your College Prep Teacher, I’d like to share with you a personal story about the time when I had overcome my fear to increase my limitation academically and/or socially and/or emotionally to be where I am today. In this story, I’d like for you to pay attention to How hard work is one of the keys to success What strategies you can learn to build growth mindset How and who to ask for help to build success Respect Responsibility Safety

Or Read the following story together When I was in middle school, I remember struggling with adding negative numbers. I had a hard time figuring out what a ‘negative’ even meant when talking about a number - how can you have less than nothing? I ended up going through many practice problems and continued to get many of them wrong. I was a very shy kid, so I didn’t ask my teacher many questions. My thought was that I had reached ‘the peak’ of my math talent, and it was all downhill from here. I eventually asked my mom about this topic and she explained to me the basic concept of negative numbers. This helped me understand it a little, but it was still fuzzy to me. I then researched online for some real-life contexts to show what these mysterious numbers represented outside of some abstract universe. Some of them made sense, and others didn’t. I still didn’t entirely get it and I was so frustrated that I wanted to just give up... Respect Responsibility Safety

(or continue hoping that negative numbers were not going to appear in math class ever again). I started to dislike math simply because I couldn’t understand it anymore. Instead of entirely giving up on my academic career, I eventually mastered up the courage to ask my teacher for help as well. She explained it in a few different ways, and gave me new strategies to try out. After some practice with these new strategies, I started to solidify my understanding of negatives which allowed me to quickly pick up basic algebra afterwards. While it was a lot of work and I wanted to give up at many points during my journey, I eventually was able to ‘rewire’ my brain so that negative numbers actually made sense to me. Respect Responsibility Safety

With a partner: share a story about a time that you made your brain smarter. As a class: Discuss how working hard, taking on challenges, and finding the right strategy can make people smarter? Respect Responsibility Safety

As we enter the holiday season, let’s take a moment to reflect and discuss some of the following Respect Responsibility Safety

What are you thankful for? Share with your the neighbor on your left: What are you thankful for? Why? ideas (person, place, or things) What are you thankful for at Lathrop School? Respect Responsibility Safety

What are you hopeful for? Share with the partner on your left I am hopeful for and here is why... my family… my school… my community… my city… my country… Is there anything Lathrop School can do to help you? Respect Responsibility Safety