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Discuss: can you get become better at anything?

Discuss: can you get become better at anything?. HOW?. 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?. YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN BRAIN!! .

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Discuss: can you get become better at anything?

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  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

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

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

  8. MindsetTrait 2 : Responding to setbacks • GROWTH MINDSET: • Setbacks highlight issues/problems that need to be learnt from • Actively seek out learning opportunities • FIXED MINDSET: • Avoids trying something new • Seeks to blame others for their setbacks

  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. MindsetTrait 3:Talent vsEffort • GROWTH MINDSET: • People can only get better at something with effort. FIXED MINDSET: • Intelligent people are born that way • Effort is a waste of time

  13. What’s Michael Jordan’s message abouteffort? giving about effort? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCUGhIqrMc

  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.

  15. TYPICAL DAY FOR ANDY MURRAY: 7:30 – porridge and protein shake 9:00-11:30 – running drills 12:00 – rest/lunch 13:00 - 16:00 – 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

  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

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