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Total Ave Total Ave Total Ave Total Ave Total Ave How to score your questionnaire Fixed Mindset 1 Growth Mindset 6 Use the grid to work out your average score.

Mindsets Fixed or growth? FIXED GROWTH What score are you?

Video Growth V’s Fixed Mindset

“Mindset” {noun} a set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines one’s behaviour, outlook and mental attitude. “Mindset” {noun} a set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines one’s behaviour, outlook and mental attitude.

DeoRY Video: A Study of Praise and Mindset

How you want to appear to others Fixed Mindset: LOOK CLEVER AT ALL COSTS Growth Mindset: LEARN AT ALL COSTS Mindset 1

How you want to appear to others Mindset 1

Responding to setbacks Mindset 2 Growth Mindset: It’s about learning CONFRONT MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES

Responding to setbacks Mindset 2

Talent V’s Effort Mindset 3 Growth Mindset WORK HARD, EFFORT IS KEY

Talent V ’s Effort Mindset 3

What’s Michael Jordan’s message about effort? Micheal Jordan 'making excuses' Nike Ad

Have you ever said: “I’m not very good at this..” What should you have said? Have you ever said: “I’m not very good at this..” What should you have said? YET

Remember; you can become a better learner if you change your Mindset.

We strive as a school to develop a Growth Mindset in our students, enabling them to be resilient and curious learners, who work hard to achieve highly.

Year 7 Growth Mindset day Termly mantra’s ‘The power of Yet’ M3 Mindset training sessions for all students Growth Mindset whole school Performance Development targets for all staff Train all new staff in the fundamental principles of Mindset Growth Mindset inspired awards evening Written into the School Development PlanNew effort descriptors Mindset database Report writing the growth Mindset way Mindset displays Departmental GM focussed targets Weekly s Junior leadership Team responsibility Logo competition Memory research Mindset research studies Lesson study-enquiry group

*Lots of discrete things that singularly seem insignificant but together are very powerful* Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

How you want to appear to others Mindset 1

Responding to setbacks Mindset 2

Talent V ’s Effort Mindset 3

FEEDBACK Learn from criticism and suggestions Act on teacher feedback STRATEGIES Seek strategies to improve Setbacks highlight issues/problems that need to be dealt with and learnt from EFFORT Understand that no matter what your natural aptitude; effort is essential to improve and achieve Persistently committed and motivated I can get better with effort and hard work GROWTH MINDSET ATTRIBUTES

Effort + Strategies (help from others) GM Learning = Phase 2- Embedding phase

New effort descriptors New feedback policy (formally marking policy) Draft strategy document

Adopting the Right Strategies…

Memory and Mindset… Know how your brain works and the best ways to learn. Improve your memory by engaging in deliberate practice.

Excellence and failure… Modelling excellence ; Explicitly welcome mistakes and benefit from the power of failure

The language of learning… Employ learning language and reward process and effort not attainment ; Remember above all else there are no easy wins it ’ s about hard work