1. Growth Mindsets

2. Understanding Mindsets
Questionnaire

3. Born SMART….?
Am I smart?
Delegates have opportunity to have a go with mindsets questionnaire

4. Two beliefs about intelligence

5. Fixed mindset Believes: Intelligence is CARVED IN STONE
Scores in a test
MEASURE POTENTIAL
Intelligent people shouldn’t have to WORK HARD
Failure reflects a LACK of INTELLIGENCE

6. Research questions asked in a primary school – fixed mindset answers
What is learning? ‘SATs’, ‘Getting a good job’, ‘Getting it right’ (being better than others)
When do you do your best learning? ‘When we’re doing things I’m good at’ (Wants to be seen as being clever)
What do we do in school that does not help you? ‘Gives me things which are too hard’ (Defeated by challenge)
What does your teacher do to help you learn? ‘Tells me what to think when I’m stuck’ (Helplessness)

7. Growth mindset Believes: Intelligence is MALLEABLE
Learning requires HARD WORK and EFFORT
ALL individuals CAN LEARN and improve
We CANNOT MEASURE a person’s POTENTIAL
Mindsets card sort and discussion

8. “Intelligence is not a fixed quality, determined at birth by one's genes. Rather, it is a variable that can be developed at every stage of life.”
(Reuven Feuerstein)

9. Changing Mindsets : Increasing motivation and performance

11. As Carol Dweck says “successful individuals love learning, value effort and persist in the face of obstacles”.
“Changing mind-sets is not like surgery,” she says. “You can’t simply remove the fixed mind-set and replace it with the growth mind-set.”

12. Set of 6 studies of children
Praised for effort
Praised for ability
goals
90% of the group created learning goals
66% of the group created
performance goals
enjoyment
continued
decreased
persistence
performance
improved
declined
lied about scores
one individual
40%

13. How to praise
I enjoy watching you stretch yourself and trying to learn more challenging things
I liked the way you tried different strategies on that problem
You put so much thought into this story, I really could see all the settings and characters clearly
That picture has so many beautiful colours in it. Tell me about them.

14. What if the child didn’t do well?...
I like the effort you put in, but lets work together on the bits you didn’t understand
Everyone learns things at a different rate but if you keep trying like this you will get there
Everyone learns in a different way let’s keep trying to find the one that works for you

15. What to praise
Effort, motivation, struggle and persistence despite set backs
Strategies and choices
Choosing difficult and challenging tasks
Learning, improving

16. “What the research shows consistently is that if you face children with intellectual challenges and then help them talk through the problems towards a solution, then you almost literally stretch their minds. They become cleverer, not only in the particular topic, but across the curriculum. It can therefore be argued that teachers cannot afford to allow their pupils to miss out on the opportunities for deep thinking.”
Prof. Philip Adey, 2008

19. GD Journey Worked with a small group of Y6 children
Whole school staff training day
Assembly for children
Introduced at class level
Feedback and marking
Monitored impact
Celebrated success!