Developing Growth Mindsets You have the POWER to MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

Developing Growth Mindsets C – Growth Mindsets U –. Understand that developing a growth mindset is a choice that can positively impact your personal and professional life. K – How the brain works, difference between growth and fixed mindsets A - Self-Assess your own mindset and develop a toolkit of strategies for academic and personal success. N - Attitude about self as learner changes, homework completion and attendance improve

Norms and Routines The sound of coming together Core Groups Group of 3-4 that you will think and share and learn with today Assign jobs: Leader Recorder Teacher-getter/Time Keeper Life coach

The Human Brain is amazing and it’s ours to control, but how much do we really know about it? With your partners, what do you think is happening here? Numbered heads. Call on the leader.

Feel it? (Experience) This is the experience activity. Doing the toothpick puzzles or riddles

Logic Toothpick Puzzle

Word Riddles

Let’s Give It a Go! Move to the side of the room for the activity of your choice. You will have 5 minutes to work the activity. You are working alone, no talking. Now, reflect on the following… Before, During, After Go back to your core groups Talk for 5 minutes about your B, D A reflections. Be honest! Leader leads, recorder records, time keeper keeps time, life coach cheers!

Solution Mindset?

STOP AND WRITE (Recorder): What Was Going On in Your Brain Before – Why did you choose your activity? How did you feel? During – How did you feel? What did you say to yourself? BE HONEST! After – How did you feel? What you were thinking? Processing questions for kids to discuss after they do the experience it activity

Carol Dweck- Stanford University

Dweck’s findings: Two Mindsets Fixed mindset: Intelligence and talent -fixed Innate talent creates success Effort will not make a difference You either get it or you don’t Growth mindset: Intelligence can be developed Brains and talent are just the starting point Enjoy effort and process of learning You can always grow and learn

Fixed Mindset Response: Helpless When faced with failure or challenge, people with a FIXED mindset: Do not pay attention to learning information Get depressed, lose self-esteem : Say to themselves ‘I am stupid’, they’ll think Under-represent past successes and over- represent failures (I never do things right) Explain the cause of events as something stable about them. (I am ALWAYS this way!)

Growth Mindset Response: Mastery When faced with failure or challenge, people with a GROWTH mindset: Pay attention to learning information, and so do better on future tests. Focus on what they are learning, rather than focusing on how they feel. Try out new ways of doing things. Use self-motivating statements such as ‘ the harder it gets the harder I try’. When faced with tests which are impossible to pass they will factor in other reasons and not blame their intellect i.e. this test was beyond my ability for now.

Carol S. Dweck, Standford University Mindset: The new psychology of success The Good News! “The growth mindset confirms the new research which reveals that intelligence can be developed, and expertise can be built by means of deliberate practice.”

The Brain and Learning In the classroom, the more ways the materials in the are introduced to the brain and reviewed, the more dendritic pathways of access will be created. There will be more cell-to-cell bridges and these pathways will be used more often, become stronger and remain safe from pruning. -- Dr. Judy Willis, Neurologist, 2006.

From neuroscience we know that… Neurons that fire together Wire together! They do movement and choral chanting together with me.

See It? (examples) Role models and stories

This Is What a Growth Mindset is All About! Walk and Talk: Do you know someone else famous or personal who worked hard to succeed? Stand and Share

John Corcoran John Corcoran – Multi- Millionaire who learned to read later in life. Walk and Talk about it! (Five Giant Steps) Who do you know who represents a growth mindset What do we learn from these people? Some examples of role models

EFFORT IS ESSENTIAL! Brains Don’t Grow Neural Connections Magically; They Grow Them By Hard Work and Not Giving Up!

Mindset Review With your core group choose a way for you to use your brain power to remember the difference between fixed and growth mindsets Movement Draw Short rap or Poem Other

Neurons Firing Together! Neurons that wire together fire together. Here is an example for what that can look like. “Neuron” by Sculptor Roxy Paine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PzoxTgfRO0

You have the POWER to MAKE IT HAPPEN!! What Will You Choose! You have the POWER to MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

Growth Right or Wrong…Why? Brain Peaks! Fixed Right or Wrong? Fixed mindset brains peak when they hear right or wrong, growth mindset brains are not as concerned about knowing right or wrong, but WHY

Growth Mindset Growth or Fixed? What is it? GG GG If you’re open to growth, you tend to grow Growth or Fixed? which are you? How do you think? What is it? You can always substantially change how intelligent you are You embrace challenges, because you know they will make you stronger Obstacles and setbacks don’t discourage you, failing doesn’t scare you, you view it as an opportunity to learn. Criticism and negative feedback isn’t always about you, but your current abilities and you see it as a way to improve. You view the success of others as an inspiration Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't change very much. You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are. You avoid challenges because you’re not sure if you’ll succeed and you don’t want it to ruin your image When someone gives you feedback, it feels like a criticism of your capabilities and of you Sometimes you wish you could bring down the success of others - It is a way of thinking, believing that who you are is constantly    changeable. - It is the belief that every moment is simply a passageway to becoming a better person. - It is the mentality that learning and growth are endless and that the greatest accomplishments are met through dedication, practice, and effort. Examples of mindsets or a good bulletin board idea Famous people with a Growth Mindset GG GG Growth Mindset Fixed Mindset Michael Jordan, J.K. Rowling, and Oprah exemplify the core concepts of a growth mindset. Each of these celebrities have faced failure and criticism but with hard work and dedication they have mastered their skills and become incredibly successful.

Talk Talk About It? Growth mindset talk

Intelligence = _____% effort vs. _____% ability Ask kids to fill in the numbers, then share Fixed = 35% effort vs. 65% ability Growth = 65% effort vs. 35% ability

Let’s experiment! True or False? People learn the most from listening to lectures. The brain doesn’t grow much after you reach your 30’s. People retain information longer if they connect the idea to something they already know. It is easier to learn a language when you are young. False True