1. Please take 2 minutes to complete the questionnaire

2. HOW Ah, hello I’m Doctor Neuron and welcome to brain science
Question; do you think you can get better at anything?
HOW
Please discuss how you think you can get better at things

3. Let’s find out what happens in your brain that allows us to get better at things…
What impact will this have on your approach to learning?

5. Now let’s find out what you know about your brain…
Did you know that your brain will continue growing throughout Year 7 – if your 11 that’s approximately 10% of your life so far!
Now let’s find out what you know about your brain…
Quick starter activity leading up to main task – spend no longer than 2-3 minutes on this

6. How many nerve cells are in your brain?
100 Million B
100 Billion C
1000 Trillion
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7. How old will you be when your brain stops becoming physically BIGGER?25 B
Never C 18
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8. When you learn you make NETWORKS of NEURONS.
What is the name of the chemical that GROWS to INSULATE your networks and make them work even FASTER? A
Myelin
Sheaths B
Moronic
Sheaths C
Einstein
Sheaths
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9. What is the largest part of the human brain called?
Cerebellum B
Cerebrum C
Brain stem
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12. LOOK CLEVER AT ALL COSTS
How you want to appear to others
Mindset 1
Fixed Mindset:
LOOK CLEVER AT ALL COSTS
Growth Mindset:
LEARN AT ALL COSTS

13. Mindset 1 FIXED MINDSET: How you want to appear to others
Respond poorly to feedback from others
Jealous of the success of others
Seek to put people down
GROWTH MINDSET:
Learn from criticism and suggestions
Seek strategies to improve
Act on teacher feedback

14. Give examples of how you responded to criticism
Give examples of how you responded to criticism. Were you Fixed or Growth Mindset?
FIXED
GROWTH

15. HIDE MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES
Responding to setbacks
Mindset 2
Fixed Mindset
HIDE MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES
Growth Mindset: It’s about learning
CONFRONT MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES

16. Mindset 2 Responding to setbacks GROWTH MINDSET: FIXED MINDSET:
Avoids trying something new
Finds it extremely hard to cope with setbacks
Seeks to blame others for their setbacks
GROWTH MINDSET:
Setbacks highlight issues/problems that need to be dealt with and learnt from
Actively seek out learning opportunities

17. How is Homer showing that he has a Fixed Mindset?

18. Failure is absolutely necessary for success, in fact in many ways, it defines success.
If no one ever failed at anything, we would never be able to appreciate our successes.
Failure is so important -- it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

19. IT SHOULD COME NATURALLY
Talent V ’s Effort
Mindset 3
Fixed Mindset
IT SHOULD COME NATURALLY
Growth Mindset
WORK HARD, EFFORT IS KEY

20. Mindset 3 Talent V ’s Effort GROWTH MINDSET: FIXED MINDSET:
Intelligent people are born that way
See further effort as undermining their genius
Talent and intelligence is everything
hard to cope with setbacks
GROWTH MINDSET:
Understands that no matter what your natural aptitude effort is essential to improve and achieve
Persistently committed and motivated
I can get better with effort and hard work

21. What’s Michael Jordan’s message about effort?

22. A GIFT? OR HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE?
Who is this? ① ② ③
A GIFT? OR HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE?
Starting playing tennis aged 2.
Practised 5 days a week; every week.
By aged 5 playing in tournaments for under 10s.
By 8 he was allowed to play against adults in competitions.
Had few friends in secondary school and trained in all of his spare time.
Aged 15 asks his mum to move to Barcelona so he can be trained with the world’s best.
“Gifted” musicians are “gifted” because the better they get, the harder they work:

23. TYPICAL DAY FOR ANDY MURRAY:
7:30 – porridge and protein shake
9:00-11:30 – running drills
12:00 – rest/lunch
13: :00 – technical hitting drills and endurance training
16:30 – 18:30 – in the gym for stretching and weights
19:15 – dinner and T.V.
21:30 - bed
Discuss how even today he has to work at improving his game.

24. YET Have you ever said: “I’m not very good at this..”
What should you have said?
YET

25. Remember; you can become a better learner if you change your Mindset.

26. We strive as a school to develop a Growth Mindset in our students, enabling them to be resilient and curious learners, who work hard to achieve highly.