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What do you believe about learning? What do your students believe?. Read. Consider how you can encourage a growth mindset in your school. Discuss concrete strategies for your own context. Fixed Mindset. Growth Mindset. As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement.
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What do you believe about learning? • What do your students believe?
Read Consider how you can encourage a growth mindset in your school. Discuss concrete strategies for your own context.
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement
School Messages That Promote A Growth Mindset • We believe in your potential and are committed to helping everyone get smarter. • We value taking on challenges, exerting effort, and surmounting obstacles more than we value “natural” talent and easy success. • Working hard to learn new things makes you smarter—it makes your brain grow new connections. • School is not a place that judges you. From Mind-Sets & Equitable Education by Carol Dweck http://www.principals.org/portals/0/content/61209.pdf
Teacher Actions that Promote a Growth Mindset • Set up lessons as learning tasks not judgments of ability. Characterize the activity as a learning process and present skills and material as being learnable. • Praise the effort not the ability. For example say, “I see that you’ve been working really hard on using evidence to support your argument.” From Mind-Sets & Equitable Education by Carol Dweck http://www.principals.org/portals/0/content/61209.pdf