The document discusses the growth mindset and how it relates to improving skills through effort and practice. It provides several definitions of a growth mindset as believing talents and abilities can grow, that brains and talent are just starting points, and that dedication and hard work lead to development. Research suggests teachers can foster a growth mindset in students by providing frequent feedback, embracing challenges and mistakes, emphasizing effort over results, and creating a culture where risk-taking is accepted.

1. Does effort and
practice improve
skills?

2. All the
research says
YES.
That’s a growth
mindset.

3. GROWTH MINDSET:
I can grow my intelligence and skills
through effort, practice, and
challenge.
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4. “In a fixed mindset, students believe that their basic
abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits.
They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their
goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look
dumb.
In a growth mindset, students understand that their talents
and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching
and persistence. They don’t necessarily think that
everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they
that believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it.”
https://bemycareercoach.com/soft-skills/growth-mindset-definition.html

5. In a growth mindset, people believe
that their most basic abilities can be
developed through dedication and
hard work—brains and talent are
just the starting point. This view
creates a love of learning and a
resilience that is essential for great
accomplishment. Virtually all great
people have had these qualities.
http://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about/index.ht
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6. Practice and fostering a Growth Mindset
Bromley’s research has concluded that to
improve students mindset, the teacher needs
to try and implement 5 key strategies:
1 - Use frequent formative feedback
2 - High levels of challenge for every student
3 - Explicitly welcome mistakes
4 - Engaging in deliberate practice
5 - Reward effort not attainment
http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/teaching-strategies-to-create-
growth-mindsets#sthash.6CF0ogW1.dpuf

7. How to foster motivation in students to create
a growth mindset?
A study of students interest in playing Minecraft
found that there were several factors that can
develop a growth mindset. They are:
1 - Persistence
2 - Attitude
3 - Effort
http://plpnetwork.com/2014/03/20/passion-based-learning-week-
5-minecraft-foster-growth-mindset/

8. Even Geniuses Work Hard
Carol S Dweck in this article, September, 2010, suggests that
students with a fixed mindset do not like effort and that
students with a growth mindset, in contrast, value effort. She
suggests to foster effort in students that the teacher /
school would:
1 - Creating a culture of risk taking
2 - Emphaisize challenge, not “success”
3 - Demonstrate that progress leading to mastery
4 - Grade of ‘Not Yet’ for lack of mastery
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/
sept10/vol68/num01/Even-Geniuses-Work-Hard.aspx

9. How can we use
these findings to
help our students?

10. Use the scaffolded tasks
and resources in this
module to help develop a
growth mindset through
effort and practice in our
students