Growth Mindset: Clearing up Some Common Confusions | MindShift | KQED News
By Eduardo Briceño A growth mindset is the understanding that personal qualities and abilities can change. It leads people to take on challenges, persevere in the face of setbacks, and become more effective learners. As more and more people learn about the growth mindset, which was first discovered by Stanford Professor Carol Dweck, we sometimes observe some confusions about it. Confusion #1: What a growth mindset is When we ask people to tell us what the growth mindset is, we often get lots of different answers, such as working hard, having high expectations, being resilient, or more general ideas like being open or flexible. Confusion #2: To foster a growth mindset, simply praise children for working hard A body of research has shown that telling children that they’re smart and implying that their success depends on it fosters fixed mindsets. Fourth, praise and coaching are not the only, or most powerful, ways to foster growth mindsets. Deepening our understanding over time
Gritty Politti: Grit, Growth Mindset and Neoliberal Language Teaching | Freelance Teacher Self Development
Over the summer, while everyone else was enjoying themselves I was ruing the day I decided to look at grit (Duckworth, 2007) for my Master’s dissertation. I decided it’s unworkable so you get to read about it here. What is Grit? Grit is so difficult to define that it takes Duckworth (2016) the best part of a book to describe it adequately. Grit is similar to one Conscientiousness facet in particular, achievement striving, which is measured with items such as “I’m something of a ‘workaholic”’ and “I strive for excellence in everything I do” (Costa & McCrae, 1992a). Grit does appear to be lauded, particularly in the USA, for being a commonsense approach to teaching and learning. What negative effects are present? In language teaching, progress is known not to be cumulatively acquired (Lightbown, 1985) yet when language is assumed to be a skill acquired like the learning of facts, it may appear that there is not enough work being done by learners. Grit, Growth Mindset and SLA References
Week One – Talking Points & Math Mindset | Math Minds
Since taking Jo Boaler’s course, “How to Learn Math,” I continually think about how I can effectively gauge my student’s mindset at the beginning of the school year. Last year, I tried a “Get to know you” form that students completed, asking questions such as: What do you feel you are really good at in math? What do you feel you struggle with in math? Do you think you can get better at those things? Now, Year Two after the course, and I have found (borrowed/stole) the BEST activity to get to know student’s mindsets at the beginning of the year, called Talking Points. For those who have never heard of them, here are her directions for how they work: I used the following talking points because I felt it would give me insight into student mindset in regards to math and working in cooperative groups… As a class, we reviewed the process and practiced Talking Point #1 together as as a class. On Doing Math Quickly…. “I disagree because you could write down a random answer but not be right.”
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Vad är delaktighet? För att förstå vad delaktighet är behöver vi utgå från en definition. Special pedagogiska skolmyndigheten (SPSM) definierar delaktighet utifrån delaktighetsmodellen. Till modellen hör sex aspekter: tillhörighet, tillgänglighet, samhandling, erkännande, engagemang och autonomi. För att förklara aspekterna närmre följer här en kort genomgång: Tillhörighet innebär formellt att tillhöra en klass eller grupp och informellt att elever känner att de tillhör en klass. I rapporten, samt tidigare granskningar, har det visat sig att skolan inte gör tillräckliga anpassningar utifrån elevers olika behov och förutsättningar. Viktiga framgångsfaktorer Men hur skapas delaktighet? En gemensam samsyn kring delaktighet kommer att leda till att fokusera på att alla delar beaktas i planeringen.
Kreativitet i skolan nyckel till en bättre framtid
Debatt Träning i kreativitet måste bli en obligatorisk del i undervisningen på alla nivåer från grundskola till universitet. I annat fall slösas den mesta kunskapen bort, eftersom den inte kan användas effektivt, skriver professor Per-Olof Nilsson. När rymdfarare för första gången såg jordklotet på avstånd uppstod en kognitiv förändring i deras medvetande, ”översiktseffekten”, som gav betraktarna en ny insikt om människans situation. The Overview Institute bildades i USA, för att bättre förstå tillståndet i den tunna, sköra atmosfär vi alla lever i. Om man studerar statistik (HDI-index, FN) kan man tro att mänskligheten får det allt bättre. Teknologisk singularitet Kanske är det största hotet den teknologiska singulariteten som beräknats till 2045. Problemet med den framtida utvecklingen är enligt Ray Kurzweil att den går fortare och fortare (exponentiellt) och att det därför inte, som förr, är möjligt att tackla problem när de uppstår. Måste förändras i grunden Hjärnan plastisk omformbar
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Recognizing and Overcoming False Growth Mindset
All educators care deeply about their students' motivation. They want them to love learning, and to be resourceful and persistent in the face of learning challenges. They don't want their students to lose heart when they get stuck, make mistakes, or receive disappointing grades. In this context, the growth mindset entered the scene. A growth mindset is the belief that you can develop your talents and abilities through hard work, good strategies, and help from others. We typically teach students a growth mindset through online programs that demonstrate how the brain changes with learning (how the neurons grow stronger connections when students work on hard things and stick with them) and how to apply this to their schoolwork. In the wake of the many exciting research results, educators became increasingly interested in promoting a growth mindset among their students. Identifying a False Growth Mindset Praising Effort Alone Teachers need to tell the truth. Blaming the Student's Mindset
Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff
The New Psychology of Success (2000), Dweck developed a continuum upon which people can be placed, based upon their understandings about where ability comes from. For some people (at one end of said continuum), success (and failure) is based on innate ability (or the lack of it). Deck describes this as a fixed theory of intelligence, and argues that this gives rise to a ‘fixed mindset’. At the other end of the continuum are those people who believe success is based on a growth mindset. According to Dweck: In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. The crucial point for individuals is that these mindsets have a large impact upon our understanding of success and failure. Needless to say, this idea of mindsets has significant implications for education. We have to really send the right messages, that taking on a challenging task is what I admire. Modelling Create space for new ideas Build time for self-reflection
