In what ways has your work changed your thinking about students’ transitions or your teaching?
Initial Findings: It was when our groups came together that we uncovered that perhaps those students who valued annotation or metacognition were also those students who had a growth mindset, and it was this that we set out to investigate together. Although our findings are currently still under investigation, we all acknowledge the importance of teaching “soft skills,” such as growth mindset, habits of mind, and metacognition, to improve our students’ likelihood of consciously utilizing essential literacy practices and developing greater independence in their roles as scholars.
