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What is your Mindset?
What is your Mindset?
Do you have a growth mindset?
Do you have a growth mindset?
Take a quick self-assessment to see!
Advancement Courses' Growth Mindset Student Survey
After going through the self-assessment, read through your written responses to each of the five categories. Next, write in your journal with the following prompt:
What trends can you find when analyzing the connections between your explanations of how you describe yourself and the way you feel about the areas of: patience, persistence, accepting feedback, and asking for acceptance?
Watch: The Power of a Growth Mindset!
Watch: The Power of a Growth Mindset!
What do you take away from this TED Talk?
Ms Surbhi Sachdev is committed to motivate and share her knowledge with today’s generation to achieve and become leaders. She speaks about her life's journey with passion to ignite students and professionals to understand and develop a growth mindset and dream big! She tells us to not give up on setbacks, but rather see them as opportunities to grow, reflect on our journey, and learn to become better individuals and achieve our dreams. Journal prompt: Again... What do you take away from watching her speak?
Independent Classwork!
Independent Classwork!
Read through these growth mindset questions
Brainstorm a time when it would make sense to ask yourself each question.
Answer each question by editing the pdf using the text tool your iPad through the Google Classroom assignment.
Groupwork!
Groupwork!
Scavenger Hunt!
Share your results with as many other students as you can in ten minutes.
Compare your answers.
If you have similar responses, mark that question with a ☆
If you have very different responses, mark that question with a ⁉️
Count your ☆s & ⁉️s
Discussion Questions
Are there more☆s or ⁉️s?
Why do you think this is the case? Is there any relevance to the number of ☆s or ⁉️s that you counted?
Why does it matter or not?
What other thoughts, ideas, or questions do you have about this activity?
What are some good questions you can come up with that have to do with developing a growth mindset?
Did a kid actually figure out the secret to success?
Did a kid actually figure out the secret to success?
Get inspired from this "NED Talk"!
Get inspired from this "NED Talk"!
Watch how Ned, a teenage student, speaks to a bunch of teachers about the eight conditions that can help students learn best.
Watch how Ned, a teenage student, speaks to a bunch of teachers about the eight conditions that can help students learn best.
Write in your journal your thoughts based on the NED Talk!
Write in your journal your thoughts based on the NED Talk!
Choose one of the following prompts:
List some of the things you can’t do yet? What can you do to start learning them?
What is stopping you from achieving your dreams? What can you do to overcome those fears?
Describe something you learned outside of school? How did you learn it?
For more inspirational videos and articles also from teenagers check out: WhatKidsCanDo.org - Voices from the Next Generation.
How can learning with others improve your thinking skills?
How can learning with others improve your thinking skills?
“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
Pre-Reading!
Pre-Reading!
Read through these GROWTH MINDSET DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Determine which questions are most relevant to your lifestyle.
Choose five questions - mark each one with a ☆ by editing the pdf using the text tool your iPad through the Google Classroom assignment.
Order the questions from 1-5 starting with the one you like best
Drawing!
Drawing!
Use your Draw tool on your iPad to draw a picture of what reading those questions makes you think about.
Can be anything! What's on your mind right now?
Groupwork!
Groupwork!
Teams of two
Choose three questions from your lists of ten to discuss and categorize the thoughts from your dialog.Groups of Four (two teams of two)
Compare and Contrast the results from the teams discussionsWhole Class
What trends do we notice in the discussions?
What ideas did you notice more than once?
What words that were significantly different than others came up and why do you think they are outliers?
Do you notice any connections between your drawing and the trends or outliers we discussed? Why do you think so?
What is Grit? and... How can you possess it?
What is Grit? and... How can you possess it?
“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”
“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”
Angela Lee Duckworth
Angela Lee Duckworth
This TED Talk on Grit is Awesome!
This TED Talk on Grit is Awesome!
What do you think Ms. Duckworth means by the quote above?
Journal it! Yes... That's the prompt! ;)
Next, we'll watch the presentation. It's powerful and motivating - the way she breaks down the concept of grit is absolutely inspiring! You have probably heard the word, grit before. Grit has been a buzzword for years, but really... what is Grit?
Pay special attention for this part of her talk: “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.”
Group Discussion Questions
How does what you originally wrote in your journal relate with the (pay special attention) quote above?
What is the hardest thing you had to do today? What about ever?
What is your biggest accomplishment? How were you able to do it?
What are your goals for today? This week? The rest of the year?
What’s the difference between intrinsic motivation vs extrinsic motivation?
What’s the difference between intrinsic motivation vs extrinsic motivation?
So many students are purely driven by external rewards, especially grades at school - or awards in sports, or clubs, or activities - then when it comes down to pride, it’s definitely not the driving force for success. Students don't explore the concept of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation nearly enough. Personal growth is such an important element for human development. Students need to access their internal drive for success and learn how to cultivate the want to be the best they can be. This is challenging, but a necessary component for developing a growth mindset.
How can you increase your intrinsic motivation?
How can you increase your intrinsic motivation?
Put in some work!
Put in some work!
Read through these two articles
Determine which strategies seem doable
Develop two goals for this week
Make a list of how to reach your goals
Journal your progress
What’s one change you made recently to become a better learner?
What’s one change you made recently to become a better learner?
“The only mistake is the one from which we learn nothing’.”
“The only mistake is the one from which we learn nothing’.”
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
How does prioritizing your intellectual, social, and emotional self improve your overall well-being?
How does prioritizing your intellectual, social, and emotional self improve your overall well-being?
Students are often so hard on themselves, many times creating unrealistic expectations and aiming towards perfection rather than looking to be the best version of themself as possible. Learning ways of self-compassion can help students in facing failures as they strive to adopt a growth mindset.
What is self-compassion?
What is self-compassion?
When you take care of yourself in the same supportive and understanding way you would when a loved family member or good friend is having a difficult time, or experiencing failure, or when you notice something about yourself that you don't like. This is self-compassion!
Three ways to model self-compassion are: appreciating self-kindness, addressing common humanity, & engaging in mindfulness.
Kristin Neff is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion. She is credited with developing a working definition and in addition to establishing a means of measurement.
In this movie she explains what self-compassion is.
How can you understand & adopt a growth mindset?
How can you understand & adopt a growth mindset?
Let's try to figure that out with Class Dojo's Growth Mindset Series!
Let's try to figure that out with Class Dojo's Growth Mindset Series!
Does reading really make me smarter?
Does reading really make me smarter?
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Not a fan of Dr. Seuss? What about... Harry Potter's creator, J.K. Rowling who is quoted saying,
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
Not a fan of Dr. Seuss? What about... Harry Potter's creator, J.K. Rowling who is quoted saying,
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
Regardless, here are some highly recommended books on Growth Mindset! 📖 🧐
Check out: The Talent Code or Outliers, or browse through the many other recommended reads!
Not a confident reader (yet)... Try listening to these in an audiobook! 📖 🦻🏾
Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
There's even a audiobook version on YouTube!
What's your brain doing when it's learning?
What's your brain doing when it's learning?
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
🤔 Ponder... 🤔
🤔 Ponder... 🤔
What can you do to develop a learning brain?
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What can you do to develop a learning brain?
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What's one mistake you made in class today?
What could you do to improve next time?
What is your thoughts on perfectionism?
How do you respond to obstacles when they arise?
How do you view the success of others?
What goal are you currently working on with your learning?
How did you make progress towards your goal today?
How much effort did you put into learning today?
What would help you to put more effort into learning tomorrow?
In what ways were you challenged today and why?
What do you do when you struggle understanding learning something?
What would happen what do you think would happen if you put more effort into trying to solve that problem?
What is your typical response to criticism?
How do you view effort in relationship with goal setting?
🧠 How does your brain work? 🧠
🧠 How does your brain work? 🧠
🧠 What stops your brain from learning? 🧠
🧠 What stops your brain from learning? 🧠
Why bother with a growth mindset?
Why bother with a growth mindset?
✅ Improves Motivation
✅ Improves Motivation
✅ Maximizes Learning
✅ Maximizes Learning
✅ Improves Health & Wellbeing
✅ Improves Health & Wellbeing
✅ Discovers your Potential
✅ Discovers your Potential
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