1. Growth Mindset: Making it work for you and your students
James Stevens
Front Range Community College

3. With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.
Alfret Binet, inventor of the IQ test

4. Reflection
Think of a time when you were learning something new… and it didn’t start so well.

5. Reflection How did you go about learning? What feelings did you have?
What did your inner monologue say?
Were other people involved?
What did you learn about yourself?
Share your experience.

6. Mindset A belief about oneself and one’s basic qualities
Our brain is constantly processing and interpreting the events happening to and around us
This interpretation process is filtered through your mindset

8. Fixed Mindset (entity theory of intelligence)
Intelligence is predetermined, fixed, finite
Focus on performance, outcomes  value grades
Desire to look smart
Effort is negative, fruitless (low effort syndrome)
Avoid challenges
Give up easily, sense of helplessness
Ignore criticism
Threatened by success of others
Internal monologue is centered on judging

10. Growth Mindset (incremental theory of intelligence)
Intelligence can be developed through dedication to hard work (effort), effective strategies, help from others
Value learning and mastery
Effort is the path to mastery
Embrace challenges
Persistence and resilience
Accept and learn from criticism
Lessons and inspiration from success of others

13. Research Highlights
Growth mindset training can increase test scores (Blackwell et al., 2007; Yeager and Dweck, 2012; Good, Aronson, & Inzlicht, 2003).

15. Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance. (Mueller and Dweck 1998; Zentall and Morris, 2010)

16. Teaching a growth mindset seems to decrease or even close achievement gaps. (Aronson et al., 2002; Blackwell et al., 2007; Good et al., 2003).

17. Comfort praise demotivates students

18. Steps to a Growth Mindset
Learn
Learn to hear your fixed mindset voice
Recognize
Recognize that you have a choice
Talk back
Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice
Take
Take the growth mindset action

19. Common pitfalls Praising effort alone Praise process
Telling students to try harder
Strategize and enlist help from others
Preaching growth mindset but still using fixed teaching methods (false growth mindset)
Revision
Quiz to mastery
Ignoring fixed mindset triggers

20. Best Growth Mindset Educator Practices
Set high expectations and challenge students
Create a risk-tolerant learning zone
Provide process-oriented feedback
Introduce students to the idea of the malleable brain
Effort
New strategies
Help from others
Harness your students’ growth mindedness
Share your story

22. Intelligence and Genes
“Smarty-pants have 40 new reasons to
thank their parents for their powerful brains.”

23. Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
Carol Dweck Ph.D.

24. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great because they paint a lot.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Ten Thousand Hours

25. Resources Youtube – Carol Dweck The Power of Yet
Test your mindset:
Test your students’ mindset:
Khan Academy Growth Mindset Lesson Plan:
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