Saturday 7 October 2017 – Time

1. Promoting Growth Mindsets How to Develop Your Child’s Growth Mindset for Learning, Motivation and Success Saturday 7 October 2017 – Time Kirstie Walker Wellbeing Educator | Facilitator walkerwellbeing@gmail.com

2. Outcomes • Participants will leave with understanding of: • fixed and growth mindset • benefits of growth mindset • strategies to promote growth mindset in both you and your child Kirstie Walker

3. Mindset (noun) A set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines one’s behaviour, outlook and mental attitude. Kirstie Walker

4. Two Mindsets: Beliefs GROWTH MINDSET FIXED MINDSET • Born with a set level of skills / talent / IQ • Focus on: • performance/outcomes • not looking bad • Skills / talent / IQ can be developed • Focus on: • improving / learning Kirstie Walker

5. Approach to challenges • Primary desire is to appear smart or to do • a task with ease • Leads to: • Avoiding challenges • Primary desire is to improve • Leads to: • Embracing challenges Kirstie Walker

6. View of effort • Effort seen as: • useful / necessary • path to mastery • Leads to: • Applying effort • Effort seen as: • useless • proof of lack of ability • Leads to: • Less effort applied Kirstie Walker

7. Approach to obstacles / setbacks • When obstacles occur: • blames others or outside factors • Leads to: • giving up easily • When obstacles occur: • sees obstacles as opportunity to learn • enjoys the process not just the outcome • Leads to: • persistance Kirstie Walker

8. View of mistakes • Mistakes seen as: • something to be avoided • Leads to: • Getting upset / discouraged • Mistakes seen as: • necessary / ‘normal' • learning opportunities • Leads to: • learning from mistakes Kirstie Walker

9. Response to feedback • Feedback seen as: • of value for improvement / growth • Leads to: • use of feedback • Feedback • of little / no value • seen as an insult • taken personally • Leads to: • ignoring feedback Kirstie Walker

10. Mindset Kirstie Walker

11. Mindsets predict motivation and achievement Kirstie Walker

12. Research • Yr 7 students with growth mindset • outperformed fixed mindset students in maths • more motivated to learn / applied more effort Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck, 2007 • Yr 10 students with growth mindset • outperformed those with fixed mindset in language and maths Claro, Paunesku & Dweck, 2016 Kirstie Walker

13. Mindsets predict seeking feedback Kirstie Walker

14. Research • Students given difficult test then told they hadn’t done well. • Next they had a choice - look at tests of those who did worse or better than them. • Growth mindset students more interested in looking at tests of those who had done better • Fixed mindset students more interested in looking at tests of those who had done worse Nussbaum & Dweck, 2008 Kirstie Walker

15. Research • Students asked trivia questions. When told if answer right or wrong • Both growth and fixed mindset students’ brains activated • When told correct answer • Growth mindset students- more interested in getting feedback - brain activated • Fixed mindset students - less interested in getting feedback - brain less activated Mangels et al, 2006 Kirstie Walker

16. How do parents impact their child’s mindset? Kirstie Walker

17. Research • Parents using process praise for 1- 3 yr olds • 5 years later - • child more likely to have growth mindset • more likely to believe that traits were malleable • preferred challenging tasks • attributed success and failure to effort • more likely to generate strategies for improvement. Gunderson et al, 2013 Kirstie Walker

18. Research • Parents who view failure as negative • parents more likely to focus on performance and ability • child more likely to have fixed mindset • Parents who view failure as enhancing • parents more likely to focus on helping child recover from failure, learn from it, grow skill set • child more likely to have growth mindset Haimovitz, K & Dweck, C. (2016) Kirstie Walker

19. Research • Parents attended 45 min panel discussion on responses to academic difficulty for grade 8s • Following this: • parents responded more positively to experiences of academic difficulty • student’s grades improved Destin, M. & Svoboda, R. (2017) Kirstie Walker

20. What can parents do to promote a growth mindset? Kirstie Walker

21. STRATEGY NO 1: Teach your child that the brain is like a muscle that can be developed Kirstie Walker

22. Kirstie Walker https://youtu.be/ELpfYCZa87g

23. RESOURCES: Youtube Clips Fostering Growth Mindset (4 mins) https://youtu.be/o-SaTBg5eIc Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset (5 mins) https://youtu.be/KUWn_TJTrnU 4 Steps to Developing a Growth Mindset (3:45mins) https://youtu.be/aNHas97iE78 Embracing Kids' Failures (4 mins) https://youtu.be/Snpalry3y8o Effort, Not Achievement (3mins) https://youtu.be/2cB5yUPFLKI How to Develop Growth Mindset in Kids (10 mins) https://youtu.be/Fx8Rejn4YUM Kirstie Walker

24. RESOURCES: TED Talks The Power of Believing You Can Improve - Carol Dweck https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve?utm_campaign=tedspread--b&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare Change your mindset, change the game - Dr. Alia Crum https://youtu.be/0tqq66zwa7g The Power of Belief -- Mindset and Success - Eduardo Briceno https://youtu.be/pN34FNbOKXc After watching this, your brain will not be the same - Lara Boyd https://youtu.be/LNHBMFCzznE Kirstie Walker

25. RESOURCES: Books Books for parents Mindset - The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential (updated edition) by Carol Dweck Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids by Mary Cay Ricci and Margaret Lee Books for kids Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty Kirstie Walker

26. RESOURCES: Websites Mindset Works https://www.mindsetworks.com/parents/growth-mindset-parenting The Mindset Kit https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents The Mindset Scholars Network http://mindsetscholarsnetwork.org Kirstie Walker

27. STRATEGY NO 2: Teach your child the language needed for a growth mindset and model it Kirstie Walker

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29. IF YOU ARE TEMPTED TO SAY “I CAN’T” HAVE THE COURAGE TO ADD .…YET Kirstie Walker

30. I can’t do this…yet This doesn’t work…yet I don’t know…yet It doesn’t make sense…yet I don’t get it…yet I’m not good at this…yet Kirstie Walker

31. STRATEGY NO 3:: Use process praise rather than person praise Kirstie Walker

32. Person praise to process praise Kirstie Walker

33. PROCESS Praise P persistence R resilience O optimism C concentration E effort S strategies S studying skills Kirstie Walker

34. Process Praise thought used explored created decided chose I like the way you… I noticed that you… Tell me how you… Focus on process Kirstie Walker

35. STRATEGY NO 4: Teach your child that success does not happen without effort, persistence and making mistakes as you learn Kirstie Walker

36. Teach students that success is like an iceberg Kirstie Walker

37. Other ideas: Make mistakes / talk about your mistakes with your children React constructively / positively when your child makes a mistake Kirstie Walker

38. Activity: How did you respond when your child struggled this week? How could you respond in a growth mindset way? How did you respond when your child excelled this week? How could you respond to their success in a growth mindset way? Kirstie Walker

39. When your child struggled: • Let them struggle • Tell them not to give up • Ask them what they can do to solve the challenge / what strategy they could try now • Ask them what they can do to improve their work • Ask them what they can learn from this • Remind them of when they have struggled previously and been successful • Kirstie Walker Kirstie Walker

40. When your child excelled: • Praise them - on the process • Ask them to reflect on what it was that they did to achieve the result e.g. what strategies did they use? • Ask them to think about what else they could do to improve their work even more • Ask them what would make the activity more challenging Kirstie Walker Kirstie Walker

41. Learn to recognise your own mindset Growth Mindset Fixed Mindset Kirstie Walker

42. Results: 8-16 You firmly believe that your talents, skills and abilities are set traits. These things can’t be changed very much. If you can’t perform really well and look good on a test or project you’d rather just not do it. You think that smart and talented people don’t have to work very hard to be good. 17-24 You think that your skills and intelligence probably don’t change very much. You like situations where you perform well, are less likely to make mistakes, and don’t have to put in too much effort. You believe that learning and getting better at things should be relatively easy. 25-32 You’re not too sure whether or not you can change your skills and intelligence. Your grades and performances are important to you and so is learning. You are not the biggest fan of putting in too much effort though. 33-40 You believe you can develop your skills and intelligence. You really care about learning and don’t mind having to put in some effort to make it happen. Performing well matters to you but you think that learning is actually more important than always scoring well and looking good. 41-48 You totally believe that you can grown and improve your skills and intelligence. You love challenges and know the best way to learn is by working really hard, You don’t mind making mistakes or looking bad in order to get better. Kirstie Walker

43. Developing your own growth mindset Step 1: Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice” Step 2: Recognise that you have a choice Step 3: Respond with growth mindset action Kirstie Walker

44. Developing your own growth mindset • Look for learning opportunities • Be receptive to feedback • Become comfortable with failure • Practice self compassion Kirstie Walker

45. What will you apply in the next week? Kirstie Walker

46. “ • If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is: • teach their children to love challenges, • be intrigued by mistakes, • enjoy effort, and • keep on learning.” Carol S. Dweck Kirstie Walker

47. Kirstie Walker Wellbeing Educator walkerwellbeing@gmail.com 0467 670 115

48. References: • Blackwell, L.S., Trzesniewski, K.H., & Dweck, C.S. (2007). Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: A longitudinal study and an intervention. Child Development, 78. 246-263, Study 1 • Claro, S., Paunesku, D., & Dweck, C. S. (2015). Mindset equals income as a predictor of achievement. Unpublished manu- script, Stanford University, Stanford, CA • Dar-Nimrod, I., & Heine, S.J. (2006). Exposure to scientific theories affects women’s math performance. Science, 314, 435. • Grant, H. & Dweck, C.S. (2003). Clarifying achievement goals and their impact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 541-553. Kirstie Walker

49. References: • Gunderson, E.A., Gripshover, S.J., Romero, C., Dweck, C.S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S (2013) Parent Praise to 1- to 3-Year-Olds Predicts Children's Motivational Frameworks 5 Years Later, Child Development, 84(5), pp1526–1541, DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12064 • Haimovitz, K & Dweck, C. (2016 What predicts children’s fixed and growth intelligence mind-sets? Not their parents’ views of intelligence but their parents’ views of failure. Psychological Science, 27(6), 859-869. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797616639727 • Mangels, J.A., Butterfield, B., Lamb, J., Good, C. & Dweck, C.S. (2006) Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1 (2), pp 75–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsl013 Kirstie Walker

50. References: • Nussbaum, A.D. & Dweck, C.S. (2008) Defensiveness versus remediation: Self-Theories and Modes of Self-Esteem Maintenance, Personality and Social Psychology, 34(5), 599-612 • Rattan, A., Good, C., & Dweck, C. S. (2012). “It’s ok—Not every- one can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 731–737. • Rheinberg, F., Vollmeyer, R., & Rollett, W. (2000). Motivation and action in self- regu- lated learning. In M. Boekaerts, P. Pintrich & M. Zeidner (Eds.), Handbook of self- regulation (pp. 503-529). San Diego: Academic Press. Kirstie Walker