Growth Mindset Strategies for the Classroom
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This document discusses mindset theory and provides classroom activities and resources to promote a growth mindset. It describes the differences between a fixed and growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe their traits are set, while those with a growth mindset see their qualities as something that can be developed through effort. The document then provides several classroom activities and resources teachers can use to teach about the brain, embrace mistakes, and shift to a growth mindset, including concept placemats, a guess box activity, and process praise. It acknowledges that while growth mindset can be beneficial, it cannot solve all challenges students may face.
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Growth Mindset Strategies for the Classroom
- 1. Mindsets in the Classroom Carol Dweck. Mindset, 2006 Mary Cay Ricci. Mindsets in the Classroom (2013) Mary Cay Ricci. Ready-to-Use Resources for Mindsets in the Classroom, 2015
- 2. Fixed…. People with a fixed mindset : Believe that their traits are just givens. They have a certain amount of brains and talent and nothing can change that. If they have a lot, they’re all set, but if they don’t... So people in this mindset worry about their traits and how adequate they are. They have something to prove to themselves and others.
- 3. Growth People with a growth mindset: - see their qualities as things that can be developed through their dedication and effort. Sure they’re happy if they’re brainy or talented, but that’s just the starting point. They understand that no one has ever accomplished great things—not Mozart, Darwin, or Michael Jordan—without years of passionate practice and learning.
- 5. What Mindset does your classroom reflect? Take this survey… http://community.mindsetworks.com/classroom- mindset?force=1
- 6. Learning About The Brain Teach students about the brain- you tube videos graphics teach critical thinking skills (concept placemat) formative assessment (handout)
- 7. Changing Direction Source: Edutopia - http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-students-to-embrace-mistakes-hunter-maats-katie-obrien
- 8. Potential parallels to student performance?
- 10. How to create Growth Mindset in the Classroom: talk about the importance of failure…. Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came To Be by Charlotte Jones (1994)
- 11. Process praise vs. Person praise Process: “I see that you tried a lot of different ways to get to this answer.” “It’s clear that you put a lot of effort into this.” Person: “You are very talented at this.” “This shows that you’re really smart.”
- 12. Classroom Mindset Activities Concept Placemats: Images with a common attribute are used to guide students toward developing a concept. Start small- 2 images w/ commonality; then 3 images.. Finally….what do all of the images have in common in the following picture?
- 14. Guess Box Activity Requires students to determine what item is in a box (the item is chosen because it relates to a content area in some way). Students must determine what’s in the box with only yes or no questions. Can use serial collections and revealed collections. Note: a guess box can feel clumsy the first few times you do it, so persevere. taken from p. 42 Ready-to-Use Resources for Mindsets in the Classroom by Mary Cay Ricci, Profrock Press, Inc.
- 15. Growth mindset is not a panacea Can provide each student with support Can enhance student expectation of progress Can’t alleviate poverty Can’t mitigate learning disabilities or cognitive impairment Can’t produce magical results
- 17. A gift for all of you:
- 18. Laura Roth shared this too https://s3.amazonaws.com/KA-share/Toolkit- photos/FINAL%20Growth%20Mindset%20Les son%20Plan%20(April%202015).pdf Thanks, Laura!
- 19. Thanks for participating! Please make sure you do the eval survey: http://bit.ly/1hIHERB Ellen Daniel, Tappan Middle School Jen Walsh, Forsythe Middle School
Editor's Notes
- show video
- take survey and turn and talk- what was the result? Surprising?
- As you can see from the red illustration, there is a cycle of hopelessness or helplessness which affects many people when they are facing daunting tasks or seemingly impossible challenges. A crisis of confidence, if you will. In contrast, coaching our students using a growth mindset approach creates a trajectory of continuous (perhaps small, but steady) improvements.
- Have attendees go through the activity.
- Ellen created the pages necessary for this bulletin board, as a Word document. The white pages are the first nice pages and then if you alternate colored pages for the next nine, you too can have a lovely bulletin board similar to this one!