1. Helping them grow up as brave, resilient learners
The Growth Mindset Challenge
for parents
Helping them grow up as brave, resilient learners

2. What we know now
Intelligence is not fixed. Effort is the path to mastery. For success in exams, employment and in life, determination, optimism, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset are crucial. .
Good exam results don’t necessarily predict success in work or life.
Bright children can plateau and waste their potential
Emotional intelligence is a more reliable indicator for resilience and happiness
1 in 4 children will suffer from mental health issues before they are 18

3. Emotional Intelligence is more important than IQ - Goleman
Persistence/resilience
Deferred gratification
Mood control
Stress management
Empathy
Impulse control
Optimism
Self-management
GROWTH
MINDSET
Think of a time when you learnt something new…..

4. Doesn’t it feel great to be so successful!?
I’m never, ever going to give up learning to walk
Doesn’t it feel great to be so successful!?
I ask lots of questions
I keep practising over and over again
When I keep falling over, I just laugh!
Responsive to feedback.
Resilient.
Risk-taking.
Relentless curiosity.
Adaptable
Make connections.
I like everyone I meet!
I try out lots of different words and sounds
I LOVE a challenge
ALL CHILDREN BEGIN LIFE AS BRILLIANT LEARNERS
© Jackie Beere Associates

6. Mindsets (Carol Dweck)
You have a certain amount of intelligence, and you really can't do much to change it
You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that.
You can learn new things, but you can't really change your basic intelligence
You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can’t really be changed.
1=Strongly agree 2=Agree 3=Mostly agree 4=Mostly disagree 5=Disagree 6=Strongly disagree. 4
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© Jackie Beere Associates

7. Fixed mindset Growth mindset
Intelligence is a given
Intelligence can grow
Leads to a desire to want to look smart and therefore develops a tendency to:
Leads to a desire to want to learn and therefore develops a tendency to:
Avoid challenges as can’t risk failing
Embrace challenges willingly
Can get defensive or give up too easily
Persist in the face of setbacks
See effort as fruitless or sign of weakness
See effort as the path to mastery
Ignore useful negative feedback
Learn from criticism and welcome the feedback.
Feel threatened by the success of others, leading to fragile self confidence and relentless perfectionism
Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
As a result, may plateau early and not achieve potential
As a result, can reach ever higher levels of achievement.
Carol Dweck
© Jackie Beere Associates

8. Emotional intelligence means having a growth mindset…
YET!

9. MINDSETS are fed and nurtured through beliefs
It’s what we do round here….
MINDSETS are fed and nurtured through beliefs
Consider the beliefs that will create a growth mindset in your child

10. Mood, habits, mindsets, skills
Attitudes,
behaviours, outcomes
Mood, habits, mindsets, skills
Thoughts and ideas
Beliefs and values
SUCCESSFUL LEARNER
Visible
Resilience, risk-taking, communication skills, self management, flexibility, determination
Invisible
I got that wrong but I learnt a lot
If it’s hard it must be growing my brain
I love a learning challenge
I’m not good at maths…YET
Learning makes me clever
Change is possible
Making mistakes helps me learn
My brain can grow
© Jackie Beere Associates

11. Supporting your child to grow
Learned helplessness
Key points
Learning is scary.
You need to take risks.
Constructive criticism is good for learning
NO PAIN - NO GAIN
© Jackie Beere Associates

12. © Jackie Beere Associates
The learning brain
JUST GROW IT!
METACOGNITION
Thinking
Evaluation
Reflection
Creativity
Analysis
Learning transforms
your brain
Emotional
Novelty/surprise
Humour
Music
Rhythm/rhyme
Love
Mystery
Stories
Passion!
Fear
Anger
Threat
Anxiety
Primitive
© Jackie Beere Associates

13. Unconscious incompetence Conscious incompetence Unconscious competence
The problem with rewiring the brain……………
Unconscious incompetence
Comfort zone
Conscious incompetence
PANIC!
Coasting?
Or excited?
How do we get in the habit of breaking through?
10,000 hours..
Just what I do!
Unconscious competence
HABITS
Conscious competence
EFFORT

14. We have to work hard to think like this
Your view of the world feeds your internal dialogue
I’m ok
We have to work hard to think like this
You’re ok
You’re not ok
Natural selection
favours the paranoid
I’m not ok
Negativity bias
Once upon a time in the jungle……

15. Are you a success? How do you see it? You will always prove
Success and failure are a perception
You will always prove
yourself right
Growth Mindset means you can reframe
the world and adjust the picture
so that change/growth is possible

16. You can change your mindset...
‘Be the change you want to see’
Praise effort NOT intelligence Carol Dweck.
© Jackie Beere Associates

17. Praise effort rather than focus on outcome
GROWING YOUR CHILD’S MINDSET EVERY DAY Do
Do say
Don’t
Don’t say
Praise effort rather than focus on outcome
I’m so proud of how hard you are trying and how much you are learning
Praise their intelligence and talents – as if they are fixed
You must get 10/10 – it’s the only result that matters because you are so bright
Give lots of feedback about how they have done and what they could do next – without criticising and judging.
You have written such an exciting story – how about redrafting and checking some of the spellings I have underlined?
Judge their outcomes – either good or bad
You are so talented, I expected more from you OR
This is full of mistakes you can do better!
Focus on what they are learning and developing and celebrate that
You have really tried hard with those sums – how do you work them out?
Make them feel all that matters is their scores and grades
You got an A that is brilliant
You need to get good grades if you are ever going to be successful
Help them realise that mistakes are part of learning and you only learn by making mistakes and sticking at it until you can make progress
Did you find that book hard with all those difficult words – just think how much you are learning if you get through it all
Get upset if they can’t do it – and show you think they are useless
You will never get on if you don’t read more books?
Model growth mindset yourself by sometimes getting it wrong and showing how you learn from it
I’m finding it really hard to learn a few Spanish phrases for the holiday but I’m going to stick at it!
Demonstrate you are stuck in your ways and nervous about learning new things
I don’t do foreign languages..and I’m no good at maths, so I’d rather not bother

18. Encourage reflection, review, redrafting, resilience
Austin’s butterfly
Taking feedback, aiming for quality, listening to peer critique

19. Carol Dweck
‘Mindset - The Psychology of Success’
What makes us successful in school, work, life??
Be the best learner you can be. Celebrate the struggle not just the results See effort and challenge as the path to mastery See mistakes as learning experiences Help build resilience and independence

20. Limiting beliefs need to be challenged
Change your thinking
I’ll never be a good writer
Maths is too hard for me
I will practise and practise
until I become a good writer
I love maths because it is
so hard it makes my brain grow
Making mistakes makes me feel stupid
Making mistakes
is an important
part of learning
I’m not clever enough to do well
The harder I work the
more my brain will grow
I hate it when I get it wrong
GROWTH
MINDSET
When I get it wrong, I
want to learn from it
Limiting beliefs need to be challenged

21. Targeted lessons in emotional intelligence
Empathy
Optimism
Self awareness
Willpower
Resilience
Stress management
60 lessons and projects to
develop the HABITS of Learning

22. Key ideas – the ultimate SELFIE
REFRAME THINKING:
STRUGGLE = MY BRAIN GROWING
EFFORT MORE INTELLIGENCE
LEARNING = A JOURNEY
FEEDBACK = BRAIN FERTILISER
I CAN THINK ON PURPOSE
EVERYONE CAN BE SMARTER

23. In the age of uncertainty…
‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’
Charles Darwin