How can we encourage and improve academic aspirations and resilience in our learners?

Grow your own GM leaders in the students population

Plan of Action Work with a cross section of students from one year group with the intention of developing them into Growth Mindset leaders in their own right. We are working with the assumption that student to student communication of Growth thinking would be far more effective than teacher to student dialogue alone. Researcher role is that of 'mind set facilitator' whose duty it is to challenge entrenched thinking patterns. Challenge, repetition and reassurance will be used to nurture a Growth approach to challenge (hopefully one that sticks!)

What are you the most proud of in your life to date? Session 1 What are you most proud of in the last month? What did you do the last time you just couldn’t do something? What are you most likely to worry about? Have you ever given up on something? When did you last help someone who had given up? What was the last thing that scared you? What is Growth Mindset and how could it be applied to the here and now?

Chimp Management Coping Strategy Which situations get it fired up? Session 2 Chimp Management When did your inner chimp last take over? Which situations get it fired up? Coping Strategy What coping strategies do you know of? What coping strategies do you actually use?

Tutor challenges, far more challenging than we ever imagined! The gritty part of growth mindset is really tough and required us to be really hard on the students at times Some of the group dropped out

Taking a risk (being brave) The Challenge: Session 3 You will have 10 minutes to come up with a solution to a real problem that we have here at Hanham You will have 2 minutes to pitch your solution Poster? Prompt cards? One person talking? Everyone talking? We will be watching for Team work Focus Not giving up Taking a risk (being brave)

We have learnt . . . Students can outsmart surveys, our initial survey indicated that we didn’t have a growth mind-set issue at all! Interviews although costly in time and effort reap better reflections. Students subscribe to growth mind-set thinking but put the pressure on and they revert to type (like the rest of us) Our students are brilliant at being honest but not so brilliant at being self disciplined. When working in growth mind-set rich environment all of our group stepped outside their comfort zone and stayed there when it got tough. Students are really situational and are likely to have a mind-set per subject. Can you act in a way that improves your future, not necessarily your immediate present?

Where to now? http://plan-do-review.weebly.com Role models - us Subject specific growth mind-set research and development Model a growth mind-set approach in a high profile way Role Models – them Consult the group further in relation to solutions pitched last week Introduce ‘Aspire’ mind-set celebration Whole school Growth mind-set signage/ thinking space Tutor time Rewards Reporting http://plan-do-review.weebly.com