Do teachers promote growth mindsets in teaching?

      It is a critical question that we need to think about it as teachers. There are many students that they have a fixed mindsets and they don't aware of their talent and capacity in which they actually can expand and improve them. For sure there are multiple intelligences, so every individual has unique learning styles and strategies, and they are better in especially some fields. For example, some are good at math, some are good at literature or music. But why not student who have mathematical intelligence also good at literature as well as math?      
       As a matter of fact, almost all students limit their self efficacy and teachers don't encourage them about their efforts even if they fail or they make mistakes. Many teachers act only grade oriented and praise students for their high grades such as they put a smile near the grade on the paper, they have favourite student who always get high grades or they give tangible rewards (such as chocolates or stickers) after activities to who finished the first and correctly. Inevitably, students begin to acting and thinking only grade oriented, their biggest goal is getting AA :) Inevitably, their mindsets are fixed. When they make mistakes or they failure to a task, they forget their efforts and not consider their progress. They predominantly think that "I need to get high grades", "Which subjects we have for the exam", "If it is not gonna be in the exam, I don't need to study". As a result of this grade oriented system, students compete each other, they don't focus improve their skills, strategies and growing their mindsets.
        If we reward students' strategies and progress, praise their efforts, show their improvement, encourage them about not to afraid of making mistakes and failure as teachers, we can change their mindsets. They can get smarter and they learn something on their mistakes. 
       I have a teacher that he is very disciplined about his courses. I failed in his class last year and I assumed that I am not good at English Literature, so I'll never be successful in this course. This year, I am taking this course again and I am really working hard. One day before the lesson he said "your progress is really good, you are doing very well", he encourage me about my effort, in consequence of this praising I've started to think "yes, I can do better". He has changed my mindset about his course and I've realized my progress.
       In sum,  we can create more productive teaching environment by praising students' efforts and progress. If we believe that effort is more important than high grades and, so our students will.

Constructivist Approach

The teacher is consistent with the constructivist approach in the video. Sarabinh emphasises the importance of group discussion in the classroom in order to develop students' interaction with each other and the teacher as part of either whole class activities, small group activities. They practice using language in a variety of context developing many different skills as they do so. One of the advantages of constructivist approach is that classroom bases on student-centered. In this way, classroom is more focus on students learning than on teacher teaching. Students' language use and language development are foster in constructivist based classroom environment.
I think that it is not necessary to any drawbacks this kind of teaching environment. With the help of constructivist approach, students have control over their thinking skills. What I liked the most is that in the video, teacher is like a conductor of a symphony. In the future, I think that I would be comfortable using constructivist approach.

Differentiated Instruction

     Each and every individual has unique features and different learning styles, strategies and intelligence. There are different kinds of multiple intelligences such as visual, kinesthetic, interpersonal etc. With regard to educational area, we should aware of this differences and take a step considering the different learner types. I think that personalizing tasks depending on students interest and learning styles can foster learning period and makes task more meaningful for them. when the tasks are meaningful and address students interest, they can learn naturally.
     From my previous experiences, I had never have teacher who considers our interests and learning styles, and encourages us to complete our tasks.  We had always same kinds of materials that we were responsible to them. Inevitably, learning was not meaningful for us and it was boring. We acted only grading focus in lessons and there were competition that "who gets the highest point". Actually, now, there are still this kind of competition among students and I don't think that teachers differentiate the task depending on the students profile, that's why sharing and collaborative working are not common among us.
    In the future, I am planning to differentiate tasks considering the learners' learning style because it is much more beneficial for students' learning processes. By doing so, I think that teachers more helpful for their cognitive developments

Collaborative Teaching and Learning

     I think that collaboration between colleagues has many advantages among teachers.Collaboration helps teachers to share their experiences, ideas and plans. teachers can improve teacher retention and and teacher satisfaction. With the help of the collaboration, especially novice teachers, can improve their awareness about teaching and they can get the opportunity to get smarter together. Collaboration can be done by doing brainstorming, reflection session before and after school, study groups and conversation about teaching. Also, teachers are better prepared to support one another's strengths and accommodate weaknesses. Working together, they reduce their individual planning time while greatly increasing the available pool of ideas and materials.
    Aside from teachers, students can cooperate improve social and interpersonal skills and help them each other to better understand the material. They can perform team learning effort. Collaborative learning helps them to increase their learning.

Superteacher

     There is a website that you can style a hero and choose characteristic for it. Here it is my Superhero Teacher :) I created her considering some characheristics that teachers should have. I preferred wearing mask to her because teachers are good actors/actress that s/he should never show own personal feelings in some situations. For example, sometimes problematic situations may occur between two students in the classroom. Even the teacher knows what is the source of problem/ who created this problem, s/he should not show his/her feelings and give a chance two students to explain themselves equally or teacher should leave his/her personal issues behind the classroom door and act normally.
Also, I preferred cloak for her. The reason why I chose cloak that generally we are role model for students. Teacher should solve problems and answer the questions very gently. Especially for young learners, not only in the classroom but outside the classroom they need us. When required we can provide some kind of supporting to them outside the classroom.
Furthermore, I chose clock and springs because we should have time management skills. Having good time management skill makes our life easy and springs symbolizes jumping skills metaphorically. That is to say, in some situation students need the teacher while doing individual project during the lesson and they might need some help. In that situation, teacher can come to help for all students.

Instructional Goals and Objectives

      As a student I am familiar with instructional objectives that my instructors give me within the course syllabus at the beginning of the semesters. I have chance to know where I am going and what is expected to me. In a more professional manner, what are instructional objectives? " A learning objective is a statement that specifies in behavioral (measurable) terms what a learner will be able to do as a result of instruction. It describes the intended outcome of your instruction rather than a description or summary of your content. It is but one of several steps that should be followed when developing instruction. Instructional objectives provide both you and your students with section direction. " (Morrison, 2004, p.1)  Sharing instructional objectives with the students is important, because when we shared instructional objectives with them, number of things happen; 1.)Better instruction occurs 2.)More efficient learning results 3.)Better evaluation occurs 4.)Students become self-evaluators.
      Instructional objectives can come from numerous sources such as textbooks and syllbi, Internet and state and national standards. Also, there are some important points for giving instructional objectives. They must be student-oriented, not a teacher-oriented. For example; "Teacher will teach present perfect tense" is not a good instructional objective. Instead of this "Students will be able to use present perfect tense by producing 100% grammatically correct sentences" is overtly student-oriented and effective instructional objective. Additionally, instructional objective must be clear, understandable and observable. Key to an observable objectives is an observable verbs such as describe, use, list etc. Bloom's taxonomy verbs list can help us to write clear instructional objectives.

Furthermore, there are three simple steps for writing effective instructional objectives. These are; specify the general goals, break down the goals into more specific, observable objectives and Check objectives for clarity and appropriateness. A final check of your work may save you the embarrassment of trying to explain your students what it was that you really meant to say.
And what is more? Well-defined instructional objectives can help us to focus our planning, planning effective instructional events and planning valid evaluation procedures. The process of writing instructional objectives force us to decide, out of all the material to be covered.  Also, well defined instructional objectives can be a great help to us and our students during the teaching process.

Effective Teacher

     As a student of teacher training programme, I've begin to set some criteria on my mind about which characteristics make teacher effective and efficient. I think effective teacher should be well-prepared for each and every lesson and s/he makes difficult topics easy to understand by using examples, details and analogies. Also effective teacher makes materials not only understandable but memorable. Furthermore, teaching is not meant to be teaching only information and definitions. An effective teacher should be energetic and dynamic person. If s/he enjoys teaching, also students enjoy learning; thus, teacher creates dynamic and lively teaching environment. As long as students love learning, teacher can be more efficient in the classroom.

     Also, good classroom management skill helps teacher to be effective in the classroom. It is important to set some classroom rules at the beginning of the semester and make them to understand classroom policy, but these rules shouldn't be too rigid and being nice to students is important. If teacher cares students and their different needs and respects their personalities, students understand this, so respectful teaching environment will occur automatically. In addition to them, if teacher keeps any reflection journal, it will help him/her in the future. Teacher can see what s/he have done so far, where s/he is going to etc. I think that this kind of reflection is important because teacher can evaluate his/her teaching and criticize him/herself easily.