Growth Mindset Carol Dweck Ph.D

1. Growth Mindset Carol DweckPh.D Before we begin please take some time to consider your own Mindset through responding to the statements on the sheet.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU

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

6. “When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good score on a certain kind of test, or even the ability to do well in school; these are at best only indicators of something larger, deeper and far more important. By intelligence we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations, and particularly in new, strange, and perplexing situations. The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.” John Holt: How Children Fail

7. https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents/how-parents-can-instill-growth-mindset/3-ways-parents-can-instill-growth-mindsethttps://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents/how-parents-can-instill-growth-mindset/3-ways-parents-can-instill-growth-mindset

9. 5 ways we can develop a Growth Mindset in our children. • Have daily learning discussions. • At dinner, in the car or at bedtime take time for both children and parents to share the answers to these types of questions: • “What did you learn today?”(rather than “How was your day?”) • “What mistake did you make that taught you something new? (Good Mistakes!) • “What did you have to work hard at today?” (Learning should be hard if not we are not learning anything new.) • ‘It’s really important’, says Dweck‘that I share what I learned, too. This models for kids that I learn new things every day, even learning from failures.’ • When children share, you can reply like this: • “You certainly did work hard today.” • “I like the way you tried all kinds of strategies on that math problem until you finally got it right.” • “Everyone learns in a different way. Let’s keep trying to find the way that works for you.” •  (These are direct quotes from Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.)

10. 2. Give feedback on process only. Praise effort, persistence, strategies, seeking challenges, setting goals, planning, or using creative strategies. Avoid praising personal abilities like being clever, fast or artistic. This kind of praise actually can lead to a loss of confidence as children won’t be good at everything. They’ll doubt their ability to be good at something that is initially difficult. Praising pupils’ intelligence can actually encourage them to stick to easy tasks that will make them look clever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWv1VdDeoRY&feature=player_embedded

11. 3. Do you know brains can grow? Explain to children how the brain can grow stronger and that intelligence can improve throughout your life. Intelligence is not fixed. It’s changeable. This is called brain plasticity. What’s more, learning CHANGES our brains. Children need to know this is possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrtHt3bBmQ Growing our brains! (Mojo) – Could be shared with your child at home.

12. 4. Encourage risk, failing, and learning from mistakes. Good Mistakes! Let children take risks and fail. Failure teaches our children important life lessons. For one, it’s how they learn to be resilient. But we often want to prevent our children from failing, from feeling upset or sad. We must let children fail now so that they can strengthen their growth mindset muscles. 5. Encourage and model positive self talk. Finally, change our words to change our mindset. Our self talk is where it all starts to shift.