1. Dr. Carol Dweck is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and has devoted decades to growth mindset research.
Her books include: Mindset and Self-Theories

3. Growth mindset questions:
Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much.
You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are
No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.
You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

4. What is your mindset? FIXED MINDSET GROWTH MINDSET
YOU CAN DO NOTHING TO CHANGE YOUR TALENT OR INTELLIGENCE.
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR INTELLIGENCE OR TALENT THROUGH EFFORT.
FIXED MINDSET
GROWTH MINDSET

5. FIXED MINDSET GROWTH MINDSET
A desire to LOOK smart
A desire to LEARN
Avoids challenge
Embraces challenge
Gives up easily when faced with an obstacle
Persists when faced with an obstacle
Views effort as pointless and a sign of weakness
Views effort as an admirable quality that results in success
Threatened by others’ success
Inspired by others’ success
Gets defensive when criticised
Learns from criticism
DOES NOT REACH FULL POTENTIAL
REACHES HIGH LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT

6. Fixed Mindset Students Say Growth Mindset Students Say
What Mindsets Do
Goals
Fixed Mindset Students Say
Growth Mindset Students Say
Looking clever is Most Important
“The main thing I want when I do my school work is to show how good I am at it.”
Learning is Most Important
“It’s much more important for me to learn things in my classes than it is to get the best grades.”

7. Fixed Mindset Students Say Growth Mindset Students Say
What Mindsets Do
Effort Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Students Say
Growth Mindset Students Say
Effort is negative
“To tell the truth, when I work hard at my school work it makes me feel like I’m not very clever.”
Effort is positive
“The harder you work at something, the better you’ll be at it.”

8. What Mindsets Do Strategies After Failure Fixed Mindset Students Say
Growth Mindset Students Say
Helpless
“I would spend less time on this subject from now on.”
“I would try not to take this subject ever again.”
“I would try to cheat on the next test.”
Resilient
“I would work harder in this class from now on.”
“I would spend more time studying for the tests.”

9. People with a growth mindset believe that potential is unknown and unknowable: Whether people achieve expertise ‘is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement’ Robert Sternberg or ‘it is not always the people who start the smartest who end up the smartest’ Binet

10. THE JOURNEY IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE DESTINATION
Everyone is born with a growth mind-set as default.
People are taught the fixed mind-set when negative emotions become associated with making a mistake or finding something challenging.
A fixed mind-set is learned behaviour…anything that is learned can be unlearned

11. Benjamin Bloom studied 120 outstanding achievers
‘what any person in the world can learn, all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning,

12. 2 groups of students of equal ability, did a test, half praised for their ability, half for their effort – which group had more success in subsequent tests?
The ability group developed a fixed mindset, they did not want to be challenged or do anything that would expose their flaws and call into question their talent.
The ‘effort’ group continued to achieve good test scores, and achieved significantly better grades at the end of the trial.

13. Effects of Intelligence vs. Effort Praise
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Looking Smart
Low
Decreased
Learning
High
Increased
Goals
After difficult trial
Confidence
Motivation
Performance

14. # of problems solved on the IQ test Trial 1 (before failure) and Trial 3 (after failure)

15. NASA – Only recruit people who have had significant failures and bounced back from them, not people with a purely successful record.

16. NATURAL TALENT DOES NOT EXIST
Michael Jordan
Cut from his high-school team
Not selected by his preferred college
Passed over by 2 NBA teams
The greatest basketball player of all time – maybe, …..the hardest working athlete of all time… probably.
NATURAL TALENT DOES NOT EXIST
‘The talent myth’

17. How does someone develop a fixed mindset?
Through messages we send…
“That’s an excellent score, you are clearly very good at this”
“That’s an excellent score, you have clearly tried really hard at this”
“Charlotte is an intelligent girl with a natural talent for Physical Education”
“Charlotte is achieving above the expected level this year as she uses feedback effectively”
“I’m sorry the work wasn’t hard enough – next time I will challenge you”
“Wow! You did that really fast – well done!”

18. Famous ‘failures’ WALT DISNEY
He was fired from a newspaper for ‘lacking imagination’ and ‘having no original ideas’.

19. Famous ‘failures’ STEVE JOBS
Before inventing the iPod, iPhone and iPad, he was sacked from Apple – the company he co-founded.

20. ‘Amateurs call it genius…masters call it practice’

21. ‘It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure’ Bill Gates

23. its not that I’m so smart; I just stay with problems longer’ Albert Einstein

25. First Attempt In Learning Means I Start To Acquire Knowledge
Experience &
Skills

27. ‘You have only failed when you have given up
‘You have only failed when you have given up. Until then, it’s called learning’

28. Once you start to think hard about what Dweck says you begin to question everything about what you do as a school leader. ‘If Dweck is right – and in my personal experience I think she is – then setting students grades as targets is deeply flawed. The subject leaders of our two most successful A levels, the ones which are about to explode out the top of the ALPs thermometer and make an awful mess, both fessed up to me this autumn that they don’t look at students’ targets, they don’t consciously differentiate, they just teach to A* standard all of the time to all of the students. Go figure…’
John Tomsett, Headteacher, Huntington School, York (Blog)

29. Famous ‘Growth mindset’ quotes
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment; full effort is full victory. Mahatma Ghandi
It’s not that I’m so smart; I just stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
People say I’m lucky but you know, the more I practice the luckier I get. Gary Player
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. J K Rowling
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Kevin Durant
The price of success is hard work, dedication and determination…knowing that we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi
Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. Artur Rubenstein
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t…you’re right. Henry Ford
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination. Napoleon Hill
Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
Amateurs call it genius…masters call it practice. Thierry Henry
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
As soon as you are trying you are succeeding.
Mistakes are brilliant!
Don’t let failure be an ending. Make it a beginning.
You have only failed when you have given up. Until then, it’s called learning.
If you’re never wrong then what else have you get left to learn?
Don’t be afraid to fail…be afraid not to try.