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Discover how adopting a growth mindset can transform your work and educational approach. Learn from examples like Michael Jordan's perseverance and Governor Jerry Brown's success. Understand the power of positive thinking, proactive problem-solving, and fostering a growth mindset in yourself and others. With insights from renowned psychologist Carol Dweck, this guide will help you develop resilience, perseverance, and success in both personal and professional spheres.
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MINDSET By Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
MINDSET • Applies to Us in our own work Our attitude toward our work • Applies to our students • We help our students to develop a positive mindset for learning • Especially with students who depend on teachers to learn.
FIXED MINDSET • My ability is limited • Resistance to change
GROWTH MINDSET I can be what I want to be I like to learn, grow, stretch
Binet, of France, invented IQ • NOT TO SUMMARIZE CHILDREN’S UNCHANGED INTELLIGENCE • But to identify children who were not benefiting from Paris schools so new programs could be designed to get them back on track, not to establish ability level
Mental Toughness FIXED MINDSET Growth mindset Can develop ** Passion for stretching, sticking to it even (especially) when it’s not going well • Do not believe in effort • I can’t do this
MINDSET Think about where you’d like to go And your mindset will take you there
STRETCH TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW GROWTH MINDSET PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE AND RESILIENCE
CA Governor Jerry Brown • Exceptional people seem to have a talent for converting life’s setbacks into future success California Governor: Growth mindset From Governor MoonBeam to turning state deficit to surplus, increase minimum wage, green energy
MICHAEL JORDAN, Basketball hero • Cut from HS Varsity basketball team • Not recruited for college he wanted • Not drafted for the 1st NBA teams who could have drafted him • Jordan’s mother: “I told him to go back and discipline himself” • Worked on his weaknesses, practiced shots
US BERKELEY PROFESSOR: “I WAS CONVINCED I DIDN’T HAVE A MATH MIND” Dweck research: Student intelligence can grow through deliberate work
Invite students to acknowledge their self-worth, by focus on a self-affirming value: Connect students’ values with class setting As students feel more secure, will make greater effort, become more successful. Success begets success.
What do you want for yourself? • Can we embrace change and challenges? • Want for your students? • Students don’t have the long view of life; we do • It’s our job to help them on that path
MINDSET • Do our students believe in themselves? • Are we centered and confident we can take the next step?
RICK DUFOUR: THE DEGREE TO WHICH PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER DETERMINES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ANY ORGANIZATION
POSITIVE AFFECT, ENVIRONMENT, POSITIVE BEHAVIOR, PURSUIT OF POSITIVE OUTCOMES BRINGS POSITIVE RESULTS
PROACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING,COMMUNICATE POSITIVE REGARD, APPRECIATION AND RESPECT
PROXIMITY IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR AN EFFECTIVE COLLABORATIVE TEAM. MINDSET IS.
SINCE THE PURPOSE OF SCHOOL IS TO PROVIDE HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING, THE GOALS OF THE TEAM MUST BE TIED TO THAT PURPOSE
POSITIVE MINDSET AND GROWTH MINDSET RESULT IN WINNING PRACTICE
LUCY CALKINS, TEACHERS COLLEGE,COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY “Curmudgeon or Gold” • “It can be fun to gripe” Negative effect on others • ELL: Can Do model, not deficit model
A NEGATIVE COMMENT NOT WELL PHRASED HAS A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE GROUP NEGATIVE LANGUAGE SHUTS DOWN POSITIVE PRODUCTIVE THINKING