“All children come with the desire and ability to learn.” Growth Mindset “All children come with the desire and ability to learn.”

Activity 1 Intelligence and Personality An exercise in Self-Reflection Please answer the questions on intelligence and personality and discuss your answers with a partner. Share with Group your reflections on the following question: 1. What does your answers to the questions reveal concerning how you view human intelligence and personality ?

Growth Mindset Carol Dweck Dr. Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology Growth Mindset research developed from a study to determine how students cope with failure. During the study she found that the students “Loved” failure.

What did the findings reveal about our capacity to develop Intellectual Skills? Jig Saw activity Read the texts you have been assigned. Break up into lettered groups (all A’s together, all B’s together..etc) and collaborate to develop a summary of the text. The summary should include points which answer the activity’s essential question. Report out to the larger group

Growth Mindset Foundational Concepts Fixed Mindset: Intelligence is fixed and has limits. Growth Mindset: Intelligence unlimited and can be developed.

How Do Mindsets Work? Fixed Mindset Look Smart and never look dumb View effort as a bad thing. Effort means you’re not smart. Fixed Mindset hides mistakes. The Fixed mindset experiences a since of accomplishment only if someone else has performed worse.

How Do Mindsets Work? Growth Mindset No Risk to learning Students understand that effort is good. In a Growth mindset mistakes are seen as a natural part of the learning process, and has an exuberant reaction to failure.

How do the two Mindsets view low test scores? Fixed Mindset People with a fixed mindset said they would spend less time studying when they received a low test grade. Growth Mindset People with a growth mindset said they would try harder when they received a low test grade. They saw a low test score as a challenge.

How to develop a Growth Mindset in students and adult learners? Praise effort not ability Intelligence vs Process Change beliefs about effort. Effort should not be viewed as subversive and undermining View the brain as a muscle that is developed through the exercise of failing and trying again(effort) Teach learners about the physiological changes which actually occur in the brain when effort is needed to learn something.

What it sounds like to praise the Process as opposed to Intelligence? Great Focus! Excellent Strategy! I like your thinking on that problem! I admire your persistence! Great Effort! A Good try again! Praising intelligence places learners into a fixed mindset. Praising the process places learners into a Growth mindset.

The Empowerment of “Not Yet” vs the The Tyranny of “Now” View 10 minute ted talk stream by Dr. Carol Dweck and have discussion concerning the impact of “Not Yet” on the current culture of Assessments and Evaluations. https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve

Summarizing Activity Write a mentoring letter to a teacher(or student) coaching them to and through a Growth mindset in some area of development. Share with Group for feedback.

Wrap Up Closing Points The Growth Mindset approach to learning is particularly important for students struggling under negative group stereotypes. For example, females and minority students. Teachers with a fixed mindset try to comfort students with statements like, “Math isn’t for everyone.” They also tend to give students easier work. They promote the “Power of Never.”

Artifacts for use by teachers or adult facilitators. LFS Acquisition Lesson Plan (Understanding your own Learning.). Graphic Organizer “Understanding your own learning”. The Brainology Web site. An interactive program which helps Growth Mindset learners better understand how the brain works Compare and Contrast Growth Mindset graphic organizer.

Exit Ticket Three things you learned today Two things you are still confused about