1. Discuss: can you get become better at anything?
HOW?

2. Dweck’s ‘You can grow your brain’ article.
What happens in the brain that allows us to get better at things?
What impact will this have on your approach to learning?

3. YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN BRAIN!!

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

5. Mindset Trait 1: How you want to appear to others
FIXED MINDSET:
Respond poorly to criticism and suggestions
GROWTH MINDSET:
Learn from criticism and suggestions
Fixed Mindset students want to look clever at all costs, to NEVER LOOK STUPID. This can lead to disengagement and disruption: they choose to disrupt rather than admit they cannot do or access something.
Growth Mindset students want to LEARN at all costs- this matters more to them then getting the best grades or scores and results in deeper studying, learning, understanding and consequently outcomes. For example in a study by Dweck et al. in 2007 they found students identified as having a Growth Mindset averaged 4% higher (72.5% compared to 76.5% average score) in attainment of year olds students (of comparable starting abilities) in Maths. Comparable results- i.e. improved outcomes- were found when comparing the mindsets and attainments of pre-med students in organic chemistry.
The ability of the GM students to recover from setbacks was also noted.

6. Give examples of how you responded to criticism
Give examples of how you responded to criticism. Were you fixed or growth mindset?
FIXED
GROWTH

7. Mindset Trait 2 : Responding to setbacks
Fixed Mindset: It’s about me HIDE MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES
Growth Mindset: It’s about learning
CONFRONT MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES

8. Mindset Trait 2 : Responding to setbacks
FIXED MINDSET:
Avoids trying something new
Seeks to blame others for their setbacks
GROWTH MINDSET:
Setbacks highlight issues/problems that need to be learnt from
Actively seek out learning opportunities
In a study in 2007, Dweck compared the different responses of fixed vs growth mindset students after a setback- not doing so well on an assessment:
Fixed Mindset its about ME. It provides no recipe for handling difficulty
•Give up, retreat to comfort zone
• Become defensive
•Try to feel superior in other ways
(WOULD SOME OF THESE BE MORE APPROPRIATE TO GO ON THE FM SLIDE?)
Growth Mindset, its all about the LEARNING. They confront the mistakes and deficiencies- you can change to GM, you can teach it!
Fixed
Growth
“I’d spend less time on this subject from now on.”
“I would work harder in this class from now on.”
“I would try to cheat on the next test.”
“I would spend more time studying for the tests.”

9. How is Homer showing that he has a fixed mindset for trait 2?

10. JK Rowling
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

11. Mindset Trait 3: Talent vs Effort
Fixed Mindset: IT SHOULD COME NATURALLY
Growth Mindset:
WORK HARD, EFFORT IS KEY

12. Mindset Trait 3: Talent vs Effort
FIXED
MINDSET:
Intelligent people are born that way
Effort is a waste of time
GROWTH MINDSET:
People can only get better at something with effort.
FM: It should come naturally. GM: effort, working hard, are key.
Anders Ericsson pioneered the term “deliberate practise”- not just doing the same thing again and again, but systematically addressing weaknesses. Relishing stretch and challenge. Dweck: “Easy is a waste of time.”
FM students have never learned how to work hard.

13. What’s Michael Jordan’s message about effort? giving about effort?

14. A GIFT? HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE?
Starting playing tennis aged 2.
Practised 5 days a week; every week.
By aged 5 playing in tournaments for under 10s.
By 8 he was allowed to play against adults in competitions.
Had few friends in secondary school and trained in all of his spare time.
Aged 15 asks his mum to move to Barcelona so he can be trained with the world’s best.
“Gifted” musicians are “gifted” because the better they get, the harder they work:

15. TYPICAL DAY FOR ANDY MURRAY: 7:30 – porridge and protein shake
9:00-11:30 – running drills
12:00 – rest/lunch
13: :00 – technical hitting drills and endurance training
16:30 – 18:30 – in the gym for stretching and weights
19:15 – dinner and T.V.
21:30 - bed
Discuss how even today he has to work at improving his game.

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

17. You should have said: “I’m not very good at this………”:
YET

18. BRING IN AN EFFORT BASED SUCCESS STORY
At the start of next week’s lesson describe an example of how you were successful because of the effort you put in.

19. REMEMBER: YOU CAN BECOME A BETTER LEARNER IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MINDSET