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What is your Mindset?
What is your Mindset?
"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Do you have a growth mindset?
Do you have a growth mindset?
Try taking this MINDSET QUIZ!
Why did your score come out the way it did?
Discuss your results with colleagues!
Analyze specific questions in the quiz!
Consider the following questions:
What is stopping you from achieving your dreams? What can you do to overcome those fears?
Did you ask questions that would help solve your doubts today?
What is the one thing that occupied your mind today? What can you do to stop letting it take over your emotions?
Lastly, list 5 positive affirmations you would like to follow for the next few weeks.
How can I help students develop a growth mindset?
How can I help students develop a growth mindset?
“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck
Questions to Consider
How does it seem like the contents in this video aligns with what I was expecting to find?
How are the main problems addressed in this video similar to my own goal for what I would like to get from watching it?
How is the style and format presented so that it will increase my ability to adapt my teaching practices?
How did the video affect the way I think about growth mindset
What are some key takeaways?
“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort and keep on learning.”
“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort and keep on learning.”
Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck
What are some practical tips for cultivating growth mindset?
What are some practical tips for cultivating growth mindset?
Building Resilience
Building Resilience
Having the ability to bounce back from frustrating events or experiencing failure is a life skill that can help determine a person's success. Helping students develop an “I can do this” attitude regardless of the setbacks is vital to encouraging them to actually believe they can do something. Our collective messages to students goes a long way in nourishing resilience.
Mary Cay Ricci, in her Mindsets in the Classroom book, noted four components for building resilience. They are:
Use growth mindset praise - applaud effort, patience, and practice.
Model flexibility - accept setbacks, switch plans and go with it. Being a learning facilitator very often produces “teachable moments”. I will plan ahead to seek opportunities to model flexibility with think alouds!
Work at seeing things as “half full” - see progress, see deterrents as understanding more ways that don’t work which gets closer to solutions
Help students to find their niche - support students with interests and hobbies, enjoying life is exciting! :)
Another resource to check out is an article from teachers to teachers about building resilience. It has some terrific practical ideas for use in the classroom. As stated earlier, building resilience is an important life skill that can help students learn to thrive in whatever they do. The hope is to instill a basic knowledge through relevant learning experiences that will enable them them to grow with this concept as they continue developing as lifelong learners.
Check out these classroom resources!
Check out these classroom resources!
What about the students who seem to want to give up?
What about the students who seem to want to give up?
“Failure is so important! We speak about success all the time,
but it is the ability to resist or use failure that often leads to greater success.”
“Failure is so important! We speak about success all the time,
but it is the ability to resist or use failure that often leads to greater success.”
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
Strategies for students who take constructive criticism as failure
Strategies for students who take constructive criticism as failure
Students often break down and feel like they’ve failed when given constructive criticism. Here are several resources and strategies that can help with this issue. Students accepting constructive criticism as positive feedback is a skill that they need to learn. Start here: How to Help Students Accept Constructive Criticism: ‘Wise’ Feedback
This is a must TED-Ed video to watch - then share with your students!
This is a must TED-Ed video to watch - then share with your students!
How do I know if feedback is helpful or hurtful?
How do I know if feedback is helpful or hurtful?
Ask yourself:
Ask yourself:
Does it offer a path for getting better at something?
Is it necessary for learning?
Does it guide is student taught strategies they can actually use?
Does it provide an opportunity to get better?
Does it focus on tasks and results or on the individual?
Do you have the students best interest at heart?
How was the feedback taken?
Are you promoting a growth mindset?
Is the feedback improving a behavior, skill development, or knowledge acquisition?
How did the receiver respond to the feedback?
Is it timely?
Is it relevant?
Is it kind?
Is there another way that I can provide this feedback that might be more effective?
How would I, myself, respond to this type of feedback?
How can I encourage learner autonomy?
How can I encourage learner autonomy?
“Believe you can, and you're halfway there.”
“Believe you can, and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Learner autonomy perfectly with the topics listed above. The ability to choose a level of self-determination goes right into the growth mindset of learning to work hard to become the best version of yourself that you can be at any present moment in time. I really like Janet Hardy-Gould’s statement in the Oxford University Press Bog that states, “At the heart of autonomous learning is the student’s perception of their own role as a learner.” If students can learn to take control and responsibility for their own learning and choose to persevere through the learning process, they can truly start to develop a growth mindset. Students have been conditioned to be passive learners rather than independent thinkers. With a focused approach, we can promote a shift in mindset for students to gain higher levels of autonomy. Also, check out Edutopoia's article with practical strategies for promoting student autonomy. It provides techniques that focus on breaking down tasks into manageable steps to cultivate student independence.
Brain-Based learning - https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896818/
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” - Colin Powell
What other resources are good to learn about growth mindset?
What other resources are good to learn about growth mindset?
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Bloom’s Taxonomy – Question Starters.pdfWhat does the literature say on growth mindset?
What does the literature say on growth mindset?
“I guess there are never enough books.”
“I guess there are never enough books.”
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Here are some highly recommended books on Growth Mindset! 📖 🧐
Check out Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Mindsets in the Clasroom, or browse through the many other recommended reads!
Not a confident reader (yet)... Try listening to these in an audiobook! 📖 🦻🏾
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
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