The workshop led by Val Margarit focuses on the impact of mindsets on student achievement, emphasizing the differences between fixed and growth mindsets. Research indicates that students' beliefs about their intelligence significantly influence their motivation, responses to challenges, and overall academic success. The session includes activities aimed at understanding and fostering a growth mindset to enhance learning experiences.

1. Teaching by Design:
Managing Successful
Mindsets
February, 10 2018- 10am-2pm
Presenter: Val Margarit, Ed.D
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2. Overview
●Teach (Live) by Design
●Fixed versus Growth mindset
●Research on how beliefs shape
learning and who we become
●How to teach by design using
mindsets to achieve success
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3. Quick Activity
Write (quickly – not much thinking)
about
• One thing you’ve always been good
at,
• One thing you think you’ll never be
good at and
• One thing you weren’t good at, but
became good at over time
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4. Some students are highly motivated and
others are not.
Why?
Why some people achieve their
goals and others do not?
What Motivates Students
to Achieve Success in School?
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5. Mindsets and Achievement
● Decades of research show a powerful
relationship between
mindset and achievement.
● Students’ beliefs about intelligence and
learning, impact:
■Motivation
■Academic behaviors (e.g., studying and seeking help)
■Responses to challenges and setbacks
■Academic achievement

6. Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
Fixed mindset
Intelligence is a fixed trait. You can’t change it.
(ex. eye color)
Growth mindset
You can grow your intelligence through effort.
(ex. muscle)
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7. Activity
● Your intelligence is something very basic about you
that you cannot change very much
● No matter how much intelligence you have, you can
always change it quite a bit
● Only a few people will be truly good at sports, you
have to be born with the ability
● The harder you work at something, the better you will
be
● You can always change how intelligent you are
● You are who you are and there is not much that can
be done to change that
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8. Mindsets
These two beliefs lead students to very different conclusions about the
meaning of events
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9. Mindsets
And the meaning they make – the narrative they construct – determines
the behaviors in which they choose to engage
Photo by Gregory Ewanowich
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10. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School?
Values effort?
Reaction to
Failure?
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11. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart
Values effort?
Reaction to
Failure?
Consequences of Beliefs
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12. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort?
Reaction to
Failure?
Consequences of Beliefs
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13. Goals
Looking smart is most important:
“The main thing I want when I do
my school work is to show how
good I am at it."
Learning is most important:
“It’s much more important for me
to learn things in my classes than
it is to get the best grades.”
Fixed
mindset
Growth
mindset
Goals? Look Smart Learn
Values
effort?
Reaction to
Failure?
Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007

14. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort?
Reaction to
Failure?
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15. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No
Reaction to
Failure?
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16. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
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17. Value of Effort
Fixed
mindset
Growth
mindset
Goals? Look Smart Learn
Values
effort?
No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
Effort is negative:
“To tell the truth, when I work
hard at my school work it makes
me feel like I’m not very smart."
Effort is positive:
“The harder you work at
something, the better you’ll be at
it.”

18. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
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19. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
Give Up
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20. Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck 2007
Consequences of Beliefs
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
Give Up Work Harder
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21. Response to Failure
Helpless
“I would spend less time on this subject
from now on.”
“I would try not to take this subject ever
again.”
“I would try to cheat on the next test.”
Resilient
“I would work harder in this class from
now on.”
“I would spend more time studying for the
tests.”
Fixed
mindset
Growth
mindset
Goals? Look Smart Learn
Values
effort?
No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
Give up Work Harder

22. Consequences of Mindsets
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Goal in School? Look Smart Learn
Values effort? No Yes
Reaction to
Failure?
Give Up Work Harder
Achievement Lower Higher
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23. Let’s Watch “Growing Your Mind”
Questions:
When our brains grow the most?
How do people become more intelligent?
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24. How Do Everyday Interactions
Shape Mindsets?
• The language we use tells others what
we believe and what we value
• Feedback tells us what is expected of
us and what goals we should have
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25. Mindsets Can Change!
Rigorous research also shows that mindsets
can change
When they are changed to have a Growth
Mindset, students do better
YOU and I do better
Neuroplasticity – Let’s watch

26. What Can We Do For
Our Students?
What Can We Do For
Ourselves?
Teach and Live by Design!

27. Let’s learn together and use
growth mindset to teach and
live by design!
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28. Activities
• How I overcame a struggle to solve a problem.
• In a group, share a story about a time that you
made your brain smarter.
• Let’s apply growth mindset strategies to
achieve our (SMART) goals-
personal/professional
○ What is the goal? (ex. Health, career, financial,
personal…)
○ What challenges you have and want to overcome?
(stress, time management, sleep, …)
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29. Reflection & Comments?
Workshop Evaluation Form
Testimonials
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