CUNY Academic Commons | Mark Zelcer | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mzelcer/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Zelcer. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 852af7bedfdb5472308da2104c18f20b Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 3.3 Personal Reflection (Required to earn certificate) in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169263 Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:51:00 -0400 This is just my $0.02, but I am worried about comparing my (our) college experience to the typical student’s. For whatever reason, we here decided to make a life staying in the college environment. That suggests that the experience was positive enough that we didn’t want to ever leave. I wanted to do the reading and do well and learn. I am not…[Read more]

]]> 581b5d3f5c096e587c025dbd957defa0 Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.7 Supportive Messaging (Required to earn certificate) in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168981 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:21:47 -0400 That sounds good. I wish there was some straightforward way of grading based on how well students are learning to learn, rather than just on how much they learned.

]]> ed3c329a1b93155c7186dbf250f3c11d Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.7 Supportive Messaging (Required to earn certificate) in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168980 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:16:19 -0400 I constantly stress the strange nature of the material we are coI constantly stress the strange nature of the material we are covering so that the students don’t think it is them when something sounds counterintuitive, uninteresting, or just a way of thinking that is foreign to their experience.

]]> cf1cd1bc544462fa6b2eec952d439c29 Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.6 Cultivate a Growth Mindset in Yourself First (Required to earn certificate) in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168979 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:02:33 -0400 That sounds very true. Modeling a good response to ignorance let’s our students see a good way to react to not knowing as opposed to, say, making something up or being ashamed that they don’t know. Students need to see questions as a way to learn and grow, not the price they pay for getting information that they will need for an exam.

]]> 0efaf59d6cc0a69e40c1ce021297704e Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.6 Cultivate a Growth Mindset in Yourself First (Required to earn certificate) in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168978 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:58:02 -0400 I am lucky to be fairly ignorant. I frequently find myself saying in class something like: “I have no idea, let’s look it up” or I never thought about that, let’s think it through and see where we end up.” This I hope models the idea that there is no shame in not knowing something or in not having a ready opinion about a topic. It also lets me…[Read more]

]]> 212af3f7d6478d01efc6445e36334ce3 Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.1 Inspirational Quote in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168975 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:33:32 -0400 I prefer your version of this to the original. Failures may or may not be a greater teacher than success, but when students are presented with a way to reframe what they are doing, rather than reframe what they know to have happened – that is they can think of a problem as an opportunity rather than a failure as a success – they can approach…[Read more]

]]> 942da61c7f58aa4a7de352f2fd85bf13 Mark Zelcer replied to the topic 1.1 Inspirational Quote in the forum CUNY Learning Mindset Modules Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168974 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:27:07 -0400 “Failure is a greater teacher than success.”

I don’t know… Everyone seems to think that it is true. It is the kind of thing we want to be true, because we fail so often and we want our failures to be positive. This sounds like a good way to start an inspirational pep-talk. But is it true?

When one fails, they may or may not learn something fro…[Read more]

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