{"id":224952,"date":"2016-04-08T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=224952"},"modified":"2016-04-08T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T20:00:20","slug":"mcs-teachers-resume-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"MCS teachers resume book club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-224952 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-1-4\/'>MCS-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224955'>\n\t\t\t\tThird grade teacher Shirley Duenas shares her insights from Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset.\u201d (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-2-3\/'>MCS-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224956'>\n\t\t\t\tPhysical Education teacher Francis San Nicolas reads Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset.\u201d\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-3-2\/'>MCS-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224957'>\n\t\t\t\tFiftth grade teacher Ariadne Snodgrass conducts a \u201cteach-back\u201d on Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset.\u201d (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-4-2\/'>MCS-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224958'>\n\t\t\t\tJunior high and high school English teacher Candida Bahillo listens on as her peers discuss Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset.\u201d\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-5-2\/'>MCS-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224959'>\n\t\t\t\tFifth grade teacher Marilyn Divino assembles a Twitter mock-up board about Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset.\u201d\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcs-teachers-resume-book-club\/mcs-pix-6-2\/'>MCS-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224960'>\n\t\t\t\tThe cover of Carol Dweck\u2019s groundbreaking book \u201cMindset.\u201d (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Mount Carmel School teachers recently resumed their professional development book club with Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset,\u201d which examines the difference between fixed and growth mindsets in student learning. Teachers have been utilizing their weekly in-service sessions to discuss the book\u2019s insights with each other, and to explore ways that the book\u2019s lessons can help them in and out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The book club\u2019s first book was \u201cSwitch\u201d by Chip and Dan Heath. This year\u2019s book, \u201cMindset\u201d features the work Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, who has spent decades researching how people learn and grow. Drawing from fields as diverse as education, business, and sports, Dweck argues that the \u201cgrowth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>School principal Frances Taimanao has appreciated lessons learned from \u201cMindset\u201d in the book club. \u201cFor me, it always brings me back to my early childhood teachers and their traditional teaching, and then all the new teaching techniques I learned in college.\u201d Regarding the school\u2019s teachers, Taimanao hopes that they will learn how to grow themselves. \u201cLearning never stops. It can be hard to get out of our comfort zones, but we need to try and we need to change.\u201d She added, \u201cAs teachers, we need to look at how we can best meet the needs of our students. This book will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>School president Galvin Deleon Guerrero echoed Taimanao\u2019s sentiments. \u201cThe best way to help our students to become life-long learners is to be life-long learners ourselves and lead by example.\u201d He added, \u201cBy reading one book together and meeting each week to share our thoughts on the book with each other, we are growing and thriving as a learning community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many schools across the nation have started their own book clubs to enhance teacher professional development. According to the ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), \u201cEffective professional development in literacy must include a sustained, personal examination of our interaction with reading.\u201d  ASCD adds, \u201cInterweaving pleasure and practicality makes a teachers\u2019 book club a powerful option for school districts looking for a fresh approach to professional development.  With book clubs, educators get together and enjoy literature and the social nature of a book club while they probe literacy from different angles. We read and discuss literature, analyze our personal preferences for reading, reflect on classroom practices, and modify classroom practices on the basis of what we have learned.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Carmel School teachers recently resumed their professional development book club with Carol Dweck\u2019s \u201cMindset,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":224955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10811,10812,1181,10813],"class_list":["post-224952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ascd","tag-carol-dweck","tag-mcs","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}