Growth Mindset

Community of Practice for Faculty Development

What is Growth Mindset?

Take a minute to reflect on how you feel about your skills, strengths and weaknesses. Having a fixed mindset can limit your potential. Below are resources to improve your mindset.

Fixed MindSet

I am not good at this
I'm awesome at this
I give up
This is too hard
I made a mistake

Growth MindSet

What am I missing?
I'm on the right track
I'll use some of the strategies we've learned
This may take some time and effort
Mistakes help me to learn better

Books

The Growth Mindset Coach, by Annie Brock and Heather Hundley, Ulysses Press, 2016 - book for K-12. Materials.

ISBN-13: 9781612436012

Promoting Belonging, Growth Mindset, and Resilience to Foster Student Success, by Amy Baldwin, Bryce Bunting, Doug Daugherty, Latoya Lewis, Tim Steenbergh

National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience

ISBN-13: 9781942072379

Articles

Growth Mindset

Support students in believing that they can develop their talents and abilities through hard work, good strategies, and help from others.

Three Mindset Shifts That Can Help Students Succeed

Students constantly face obstacles and transitions—and their mindset influences how they respond to them.

Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades

Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'

PodCasts

A growth mindset is the belief that you can do anything if you work for it. Your host Sam Harris finds remarkable individuals doing extraordinary things and breaks the processes down to show how anyone can achieve anything.

Videos

Growth Mindset

Learn how your mindset can either hold you back or help you achieve greatness... it's up to you!

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Researcher and professor Carol Dweck uses the term “mindset” to describe the way people think about ability and talent. Dweck delineates between two different mindsets that exist on a continuum.

Fixed Mindset Vs. Growth Mindset Bryan University

LearnStorm Growth Mindset: The Truth About Your Brain

Explore growth mindset with Thinky Pinky as he takes you through a exploration of what happens in your brain when it learns. This video is part of the Growth Mindset Curriculum available with LearnStorm, a back-to-school program aimed at helping students start the school year strong. The growth mindset curriculum helps students take their own life experiences apply their learnings in the face of frustration, making mistakes and learning new things.

Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck

Should you tell your kids they are smart or talented? Professor Carol Dweck answers this question and more, as she talks about her groundbreaking work on developing mindsets. She emphasizes the power of "yet" in helping students succeed in and out of the classroom.Carol Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Education. A leading expert in the field of motivation, her research has demonstrated the role of mindsets in students’ achievement and has shown how praise for intelligence can undermine motivation and learning. Her bestselling book Mindset has been widely acclaimed and translated into over 20 languages

Pathway Transformation Initiative - Growth Mindset

Growth mindset, which was developed by Stanford Psychology Professor Carol Dweck more than 20 years ago, is the belief that a person has the capacity to change one’s intelligence through cultivated effort, good strategies, and hard work.

Growth Mindset for College Students

A free, evidence-based program designed to increase students' engagement, motivation, and ultimately success by laying the foundation for a growth mindset

Guest Speaker - Jen Rosato, St. Scholastica College, January 17, 2020.

Kean University Professional Development Talk

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Cultivating a Growth Mindset

By: Gemma Leigh Roberts, a British psychologist and a coach
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https://academicaffairs.arizona.edu/l2l-strategy-growth-mindset#:~:text=Students%20can%20be%20taught%20to%20develop%20a%20growth%20mindset.&text=Growth%20mindset%20does%20not%20mean,with%20effort%20and%20good%20strategies.

https://mindsetscholarsnetwork.org/learning-mindsets/growth-mindset/#

https://mycoursessupport.spcollege.edu/college-skills/growth-mindset-toolkit

Additional Resources -

School --> Web site one page for student information

University level --> one page [AH committee]

Build a mobile app -> self assessment of whether or not you're using Growth Mindset.

What are the Growth Mindset words or phrases, tones?

Where do we use Growth Mindset in class?

Where do we use Growth Mindset in office hours/advising? "RUSH" to graduate!

The PROCESS to graduation. Quality of the experience.

Should our assignments be evaluated for Growth Mindset?

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Growth mindset -- think of students as wanting to avoid failure --> can we assist our students...positive feedback. Exam comments that are encouraging, even though the results are not as the student had hoped. This can be cumulative over courses.

Homework for Aug. 5, 2020: