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How can you connect all of the dots using only 4 straight lines?
You have got to think out of the box!
What is mindset? “A mental attitude that determines how you interpret and respond to situations.” Princetown University “Research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life” Dweck, 2006
Does Mindset Matter? Good, Rattan and Dweck, 2008 noted that “The distinguishing feature of geniuses is their passion and dedication to their craft, and particularly, the way they identify, confront, and take pains to remedy their weaknesses.”
What happens next . . . .
Growth v Fixed Mindset video
Does Mindset really matter? Winston Churchill
Repeated a year at primary school and was placed in the lowest class
Beethoven Music teacher thought he was hopeless and he wrote 5 symphonies when he was deaf
Leo Tolstoy Dropped out of College and was describes as being ‘UNABLE and UNWILLING to learn’
Albert Einstein His teacher though he was ‘academically subnormal’
Michael Jordan His coach said he wasn’t more talented than other people.
Walt Disney Told that he lacked ‘creative imagination’
Q1: What would YOUR response be to this pupil? Q2: What would your strategy be for trying to support them?
A Question of Intelligence: How much of your intelligence do you think is down to EFFORT and how much do you think is down to ABILITY? Intelligence = _______% EFFORT + ________% ABILITY
FIXED: 35% EFFORT and 65% ABILITY
GROWTH: 65% EFFORT and 35% ABILITY
Which Mindset are you?
Instructions 1: Take one of the ‘Which Mindset are you?’ sheets 2: Read each statement and tick ONE box for each
statement – to what extent do you agree or disagree . . . 3: Use the score sheet on the next slide to work out your total
score: 4: Where do you sit with your Mindset?
• 0 – 20 points = Strong Fixed Mindset • 21 – 33 points = Fixed Mindset with some Growth ideas • 34 – 44 points = Growth Mindset with some Fixed ideas • 45 – 60 points = Strong Growth Mindset
The Sociologist, Benjamin Barber
“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the
strong, or the successes and failures . . . I divide the world into the learners and
the nonlearners.”
Eight ways to encourage a Growth Mindset in your classroom
1. BRAIN 2. EFFORT 3. PRAISE 4. FAILURE 5. RESILIENCE 6. FEEDBACK 7. HAPPINESS 8. RISK
Carol Dweck writes “The fixed mindset limits achievement. It
fills people’s minds with interfering thoughts, it makes effort disagreeable, and
it leads to inferior learning strategies. What’s more, it makes other people into
judges instead of allies. Important achievements require a clear focus, all-‐out
effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. This is what the growth mindset gives people, and that’s why it helps their abilities to
grow and bear fruit.”
1: BRAIN
The Growth Mindset/ Khan video
2: EFFORT
3: PRAISE
Praise Dweck argues that we should keep away from a certain kind of praise -‐ praise that judges their intelligence or talent. Or praise that implies that we’re proud of them for their intelligence or talent rather than for the work they put in. We can praise them as much as we want for the growth-‐orientated process – what they accomplished through practice, study, persistence and good strategies. We praise the efforts and the achievements.
Carol Dweck Praise video
4: FAILURE
5: RESILIENCE
6: FEEDBACK
7: HAPPINESS
8: RISK
BUILD SOMETHING NEW? Why not build your own Happiness/ Well-‐being/ Resilience/ Growth Mindset course for your students?
*You can find out more on my website thinkgeography.org.uk > About me > link to iLearn at the bottom of the page
Tim Manson Vice Principal, Cullybackey College @mapsman [email protected] www.thinkgeography.org.uk