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GROWTH
MINDSETPRINCIPALS
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
APRIL 18, 2017
GROWTH MINDSET
INTRODUCTION TO MINDSETS
Today, we are learning about the power
of our beliefs, both conscious and
unconsciously, on our behaviors. Changing
just the simplest of these beliefs can have a
strong impact in the lives of our students and
ourselves.
GROWTH MINDSET
WHAT IS A MINDSET?It is an attitude, assumptions, belief system, or
perspective on how we view ourselves through our
personality, behaviors and actions
personally in the world. It has many applications across a
wide variety of areas. Mindsets are powerful beliefs that
are in your mind and your mind can be changed. Today,
are talking about Growth Mindset in education. This is but
the tip of the iceberg.
GROWTH MINDSETOUR LOFTY GOALS IN EDUCATING STUDENTS
1. To be college and/or career ready
2. To be able to read critically, solve complex
problems and to write effectively
3. To be able to take on challenges with zeal
4. To evolve into powerful agents of change
for themselves and the world
GROWTH MINDSETWHY IS IT VITAL TO TEACH ABOUT MINDSETS?
a. Educators must believe that talents of
students can be developed to allow them
to fulfill their potential.
b. Every child can be successful with the right
combination of hard work and good
instruction.
GROWTH MINDSET• WHAT IS A GROWTH MINDSET?(OPENING ACTIVITY PAPER TOP HALF) (SHARE OUT)
Name something about which you
believe you have a strong knowledge
base or skill level.(Use your Index card in your folder)
GROWTH MINDSET• The person responsible for this work on mindsets is
a professor and researcher,
Carol Dweck, PH.Dwhose decades of research is published in her book,
Mindset-The New Psychology of Success
How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential
She is a world-renown psychologist from
Stanford University
GROWTH MINDSET• Professor Dweck has this to say about Mindsets:
• “There is no relation between students’ abilities or intelligence
and the development of mastery-oriented qualities. Some of the
very brightest students avoid challenges, dislike effort and wilt in
the face of difficulty. And some of the less bright students are
real go-getters, thriving on challenges, persisting intensely when
things get difficult and accomplishing more that you expected. It
shows that being mastery-oriented is about having the right
mindset. It is not about how smart you are. Having the mastery-
oriented mindset helps them become more able over time.”
• How many of you have found this to be true or not true?
Dweck - Education World interview
GROWTH MINDSET• DEFINITIONS OF GROWTH MINDSET
- A belief that your abilities and intelligence can
change through effort and learning
- Each person is capable of learning anything
- A belief that views mistakes as learning
opportunities
- Struggle and failure might be necessary but with
effort and perseverance, everyone can
succeed
GROWTH MINDSET• MORE DEFINITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS
- Intelligence, creativity and artistic ability can
be developed over time with practice,
hardwork, endurance and a willingness
to learn and adapt
- You believe your traits, habits, personality, skills
are growing and changing. Effort is the
linchpin. How far will you go if you try?
Failures may hurt but they provide
feedback as signposts not endpoints.
GROWTH MINDSET• FROM THE CHART CALLED “TWO MINDSETS”
# A growth mindset means intelligence can be developed.
# Leads to a desire to learn
# Embraces challenges
# Persists in the face of setbacks
# Sees effort to the path of mastery
# Learns from criticism
# Finds lessons and inspiration in success of others
GROWTH MINDSET
In contrast to a Growth Mindset is a
Fixed Mindset that is a belief that
states:
Each person’s intelligence, skills and
talents are predetermined.
You are born with certain skills and
you are wasting your time trying to
improve those skills in which you are
not strong.
GROWTH MINDSET• MORE CHARACTERISTICS OF FIXED MINDSET
• ( Taken from a book called A Mindset of Learning by Mraz and Hertz)
• “When you think about yourself and the world with a fixed
mindset, you believe your traits, habits, personality, skills are
fixed and immovable. You are smart or dumb, athletic or
clumsy, artistic or not. There is nothing you can do to change
those traits. Effort is not valued. Why try if you know you are
dumb? Failure is a terrifying prospect. If you fail, does that
mean you were never smart in the first place?”
GROWTH MINDSET• ALSO FROM THE CHART – FIXED MINDSET
% Intelligence is static
% Avoids challenges
% Gives up easily
% Sees effort as fruitless or worse
% Ignores useful negative feedback
% Feels threatened by success of others
GROWTH MINDSETAnswer this question:
Can you have both types of Mindsets
or are your beliefs in one Mindset or
the other?Next - Answer questions on bottom of first sheet.
GROWTH MINDSETMORE QUOTES FROM CAROL DWECK
“When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one
world (Fixed Mindset) success is about proving you are smart
or talented. Validating yourself. In the other mindset (Growth
Mindset) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new.
Developing yourself.”
“Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a
student is, but they don’t tell you where a student could end
up.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
GROWTH MINDSET• So How Does This Work in the Brain
• Your brain is an organ. It is soft like warm butter.
• Your skull protects your brain.
• Your brain consumes the energy from 1/5 of the food you
eat to operate.
• Neurons in the brain create pathways when you learn
something new. The more pathways, the denser your
brain becomes.
• You can grow the size of your brain through building
strong pathways by learning and trying new things.
• Pathways are strengthened by practicing what you learn.
GROWTH MINDSET• Let’s watch this video called
• The Power of Belief• A TED Talk
Discussion – What were your take aways from
what you saw and heard?
GROWTH MINDSET
Review the enclosed article,
You Can Grow Your Brain
Discussion
Neuron Activity
GROWTH MINDSET• Let’s Compare and Contrast Growth and
Fixed Mindsets
1. Listen to my examples and identify if it indicates a
Fixed or Growth Mindset. (Use Signal Cards to answer)
2. Identify something about which you have a Fixed
Mindset. (Write on your Index card in your folder)
3. Identify something about which you have a
Growth Mindset. (Write on your Index card in your folder)
GROWTH MINDSET
EFFORTHow would you define effort? What helps you
to determine how much effort you put forth in
something?
What about your students?Adolescents often develop the low-effort syndrome as a way to
assert their independence from adults.
There is a great amount of information about this topic.
GROWTH MINDSET
EFFORT (CONTINUED)
= In a Growth Mindset, effort is the
reward. People with this
mindset do not give up
easily. Setbacks are motivating
to them. Champions find
success in learning and
improving and doing their best.
GROWTH MINDSET
+ In a Fixed Mindset, people will
quit easily, will not struggle
or give extra effort. They will
not accept challenging tasks
so that they do not fail or
look less smart.
GROWTH MINDSET• THE ROLE OF FAILURE IN
• GROWTH MINDSETS In a Fixed Mindset, mistakes and failures are poisonous to
people because they ignore their presence rather than
do what it takes to remedy the situation.
In a Growth Mindset, mistakes and failures are a natural part
of the learning and growth processes and they are
opportunities to be embraced not avoided.
These mistakes and failures may be painful at first but the
opportunity for growth and learning benefit students in
the long run.
Famous failures article
GROWTH MINDSETSUPPORTIVE FEEDBACK VS. THE PERILS OF
PRAISE AND CRITICISM
Feedback- when a person (teacher) suggests what
another person (student) might do to improve. This is
called Process Praise
Praise – makes you feel good about your work but
research has shown that praising students for their
intelligence can hinder their motivation to learn.
See article in your folder
GROWTH MINDSET• Process Praise sounds like this:
• I like the way you tried all kinds of strategies on that
problem until you solved it.
• It was a hard assignment but you stuck with it until
you finished it. You concentrated on the task and
kept working.
• You took on a challenging task that took a lot of
work!
GROWTH MINDSETTHE NOT YET PERSPECTIVE
Instead of the adopting the attitude that one can
never learn something difficult, choose the
perspective that one has not yet learned it.
Through effort, continued practice and
perseverance one can learn something difficult.
YOUTUBE VIDEO – SESAME STREET: THE
POWER OF YET
GROWTH MINDSET• How to help students develop a Growth
Mindset• Hold a discussion in class about how students who struggled
in a subject area were able to improve and be successful with
persistence and effort
• Discuss that often “fast learning” or getting school work done
quickly does not always lead to “deep learning”. Students
who take longer to learn something, learn more deeply.
• Break down difficult or complex tasks into their component
parts so students can see their own skill building progress.• Heather Landers - teaching.colostate.edu/tip
GROWTH MINDSET• How to help (continued)
• Make your expectations for learning the content and skills in
your classroom clear and explicit. Small growth increments
repeated over time can lead to a Growth Mindset and
increase confidence,
+ As students make progress, praise their efforts and
strategies instead of their intelligence.
• Help students focus on and value the process of learning.
Students are focused on grades which encourages a Fixed
Mindset. (and so are parents)
GROWTH MINDSET• More Help
• Design some classroom activities and lessons
around cooperative rather than competitive or
individualistic work. Given research states that
students are more motivated and successful when
working in groups. Group work helps them develop
responsibility and with positive feedback can help
develop a Growth Mindset.
• What are the benefits and challenges of group work?
GROWTH MINDSET
SCENARIOS( In small groups using given examples)
Identify each example as a Growth Mindset
or a Fixed Mindset
GROWTH MINDSET• COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS
Carol Dweck says, “If parents want to give their children
a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to
love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and
keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be
slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and
repair their own confidence.”
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THIS STATEMENT? HOW
MIGHT YOU COMMUNICATE THAT TO PARENTS OF YOUR
STUDENTS?
WHAT DID YOU TRY HARD AT TODAY? Carol Dweck
GROWTH MINDSETRESOURCES AVAILABLE
- BOOKS
- ARTICLES
- LESSONS, ACTIVITIES, POWERPOINTS,
VIDEOS AND IDEAS ON
INTERNET FOR DIFFERENT
LEVELS OF STUDENTS
GROWTH MINDSET
TIPS FOR YOU
2 ARTICLES INCLUDED IN YOUR
FOLDER
GROWTH MINDSETQUESTIONS????
DOES THIS HAVE TO BE TAUGHT AS A
SEPARATE SUBJECT OR CURRICULUM
CONCEPT?
GROWTH MINDSETDISCUSSION:
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO USE THIS
INFORMATION IN YOUR SCHOOL?
EXIT SLIP
Answer the questions on the given paper at
back of folder. Sign it and turn in to presenter.