1. Are you a rich tea or a hobnob?

2. Two Books
Resilience

3. Carol Dweck

4. ‘You must have worked really hard at this’
Dweck’s research focussed on looking at a series of two groups. One was praised for their intelligence, the other praised for effort.
‘You must have worked really hard at this’
‘You must be really clever at this’
Have no task persistence
More competitive
Willing to take risks
See failure as a stepping stone
Struggle with failure
Risk averse
Develop strategies for success
Persist

5. Take Two students Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset Embraces challenges
Avoids Challenge
Gives up easily
Sees effort as fruitless or worse
Ignores useful negative feedback
Feels threatened by success of others
Embraces challenges
Persists in the face of setbacks
Sees effort as the pathway to mastery
Learns from criticism
Finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others

6. Mindset Questionnaire

7. 2 key points I have taken from Dweck
1) High Expectations of all
Do we train our students to be fleas in a jar?
Resilience

8. 2 key points I have taken from Dweck
2) The Inverse Power of Praise
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Resilience

9. What I’m trying NOT to say
You are really ‘gifted’ in RE
What have you learned today?
I won’t do this with them, they’re a low ability class.
Well done, you’ve reached your target. You’re a 5b
Never mind, you tried your best.

10. What I’m trying to say instead
Keep trying. BBBB.
You worked really hard at that. Well done
You can’t do… ‘YET’
Well done, you aimed high.
What do you need to do next time?

11. So, are you a rich tea, or a hobnob?

12. Reading List
Angela Lee Duckworth Ted Talk – The Key to Success? Grit
Mindset, Carol Dweck
Bounce, Matthew Syed
Anything from Huntingdon School, but could start here: dweck-inspired-growth-mindset-culture/
Or from Durrington High School, start here: classteaching.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/mindset-the-things-we-say
There are also loads of links on our blog, under Growth Mindset