Growth
Mindsets

“I don’t do teaching for a living, I
live teaching as my doing . . .
and technology has amplified my
passion for doing so.”
I believe that one of the roles and
responsibilities of the 21st century education
is to share resources, ideas, and
instructional strategies with other
educators. As such I Tweet
@jackiegerstein and Blog at
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.c
om/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtaIP1XPLQM

http://youtu.be/wOlTdkYXuzE?t=1m4s

● Historical Precedents
● Video and Online Interactive Exploration of Mindsets
● Tarp Flip - Flipping from a Fixed to a Growth Mindset
● Small Group Slideshow on Growth Mindsets
● Educator with a Growth Mindset - Characteristics & Assessment
● Small group goal setting - identify one or two areas to develop own growth
mindset
● Helping Students Develop a Growth Mindset: Brainstorming of how to increase
the growth mindsets of students at Carlos Rosario Public Charter School.
● Possible Follow-up Actions:?

Historical
Background

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.sturt/motivat2.htmhttp://njgalarza.blogspot.com/2011/03/locus-of-control.html

http://psychtutor.weebly.com/motivation-and-education.html

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/
gary.sturt/Motivation%20in%2
0Education.htm
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http://www.teachhub.com/learned-helplessness-and-how-we-can-overcome-it

http://psychtutor.weebly.com/motivation-and-education.html

http://www.primermagazine.com/2012/live/conquering-the-enemy-within-ignorance-confidence-success

http://transformationalchange.pbworks.com/w/page/74904554/Sp14%20FW%20311-
801%20Shifters%20Cognitive%20Restructuring

Growth Mindsets

Carol Dweck
Growth
Mindsets

https://experientiallearning.makes.org/popcorn/266a

For Grapnics: http://www.pinterest.com/jackiegerstein/growth-vs-fixed-mindsets
http://nigelholmes.com/graphic/two-mindsets-stanford-magazine/ /

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/549674394805338114

Growth Mindset
Characteristics
Fixed Mindset
Characteristics

Flipping Mindsets:
From a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset

Group Presentation:
Growth Mindset at ISTE 2015
https://goo.gl/02naXP

Group Presentation:
Growth Mindset at Carlos Rosario
https://goo.gl/vOSYGs

The Educator with a Growth
Mindset

A lot of teachers are saying ‘yes I
have a growth mindset’, without
doing the work and without making a
journey to deeply understand it and
to know how to apply it.
Carol Dweck http://schoolsweek.co.uk/why-mindset-is-
not-a-tool-to-make-children-feel-good/

http://community.mindsetworks.com/my-mindset?force=1

Do you believe that your
talent, passion, effort
and hard work makes
you a better teacher?

Do you actively seek out ways
to improve your teaching
practices . . . your students’
learning experiences?

Do you try new things in your
learning environment (even when
the outcomes and results may be
unknown)?

In your teaching environment, do you
imagine what could be along with
considering what is?

When you achieve your goals . . . overcome
difficult challenges, do you identify what
YOU did to make this happen AND celebrate
your successes?

Do you persist in doing
what you know is good
for you and your
students even when it
gets difficult?

When you have difficulty achieving your goals,
do you “pick yourself up”, identify what you
could have done differently, and then move on?

Do you elicit explicit and
concrete feedback about
your teaching practices and
make changes if you deem
it appropriate?

Are you willing to ask your colleagues
and associates for help and advice?

Do you accept failure as part of the
learning process . . . for yourself . . . for
your colleagues . . . for your students?

Do you believe (deep down where beliefs
live) that every learner is capable of
learning and growing with enough effort,
feedback, and coaching?

Do you regularly reflect on your practices
analyzing, in part, the self-statements you use?
Do your self-statements
reflect a growth mindset?

Do you make time to engage in
personal, self-directed on demand
professional development?

Have you established a
professional learning
network with individuals
from diverse
backgrounds with
differing perspectives
and opinions?

Which one or two of the Growth
Mindset characteristic do you want to
incorporate into your teaching?
How can you achieve this goal?

Facilitating Growth Mindsets
with Your Learners

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/growth-mindset-eed#

http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/issue10/mindsets_and_student_agency_contributors/

http://web.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Welcome_files/DweckWaltonCohen_2014.pdf

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-
minds/2014/04/14/why-academic-tenacity-matters/

https://usergeneratededu
cation.wordpress.com/20
14/09/28/how-educators-
can-assist-learners-in-
developing-a-growth-
mindset/

Math = Love: Growth Mindset and SBG Bulletin Board Downloads
http://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2014/08/growth-mindset-and-sbg-bulletin-board.html?spref=tw

http://www.growthmindsetmaths.com/

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZaUNuGQOPFp7wcRbVeY650TmwGZTqV5yOLCRf3oMmRI/viewform

http://www.slideshare.net/kfasimpaur/deeper-learning-academic-
mindsets?ref=http://dlmooc.deeper-learning.org/live/archives/

Brainstorm
What can the for your staff and/or students
School educators do to increase the growth
mindsets of their students?