US Education News (part 2)

3. 'Growth Mindset' Gaining Traction as School Improvement strategy
"Learning mentality" Learning theory, gradually gained reuse in American schools, and guided the improvement of teaching strategies. For

10 years, Stanford University professor Carol S. Dweck studied students' learning ability and studied how students look at it. The "intelligence" that I learned by myself.

The cumulative results of many years have found that if a student thinks that intelligence can be acquired through hard work or continuous experimentation, then he or she is actively seeking challenges, learning from mistakes, and still having confidence in the face of failure. This learning mentality is called For "Growth Mindset".

Conversely, if students believe that intelligence is innate, why do nowhere near the effort, this negative attitude is that the study "Fixed Mindset" (fixed mindset), and that students who fail bow weary pessimism, And not willing to meet the challenge.

Teachers with "Growth Mindset" believe that a second-grade elementary school student can also enter the university within 4 years. Teachers who have this mentality also directly affect the results of students' learning intelligence. Many schools in the United States have begun to apply this "Growth Mindset" to actively learn mentality theory in teaching. When you are in the United States, if your teacher is in the classroom, throw out many questions that have no right or wrong answers to stimulate each student's thinking, and let each student dare to try all possible modes of thinking. In this way, learning will be a pleasure, and the later classes and cattle classes will become an impossible vocabulary from now on.

4. Pressure Mounts in Some States Against Common Core
Some states oppose the common course (the content of the standard), and the international

school's common core is divided into Math mathematics, Science science, Language Arts. (English) language, social studies, social sciences, etc. The

US federal government is based on the opinions of a few people, and without the participation of educational experts, with the participation of most state governments, the American School Language Arts and Math courses are established. The standard of instruction to follow. The sloppy move by the US federal government has caused many dissatisfaction in the education sector.

For example, the most American scholars are criticized: the standard of framed teaching content, it is difficult to replace the old and new technology, prosperous times, and keep pace with the times. Moreover, any standard uniform form of teaching content will stifle educational creativity invisible. The worst part is that in order to judge the effectiveness of the federal government's common core teaching standards in each state, there must be a national Common Core Standardized Test (common curriculum standard test, similar to Taiwan's benchmark). However, standard tests can't measure complex ideas and can't eliminate cultural prejudice (such as the Orientals choose to let their children go to cram schools for high scores, Africans and Hispanics often become post-test after testing), unable to test non-language Ability, etc. Opponents believe that national standard tests can not only prove the student's academic ability, but only waste the public stupidity.

Even though opposition to the rise of voices, 46 state governments have cited the federal government's teaching standards in the 50 states, and Math's teaching standards have been implemented in 45 states.