Growth Mindset - John Tomsett Hand Out
Growth Mindset - John Tomsett Hand Out
the questionnaire
Growth Mindsets?
John Tomsett
Huntington School, York
My brief
Take away clear guidance to help
colleagues foster a Growth
Mindset in students to encourage
their natural abilities, develop
greater motivation and make
improved progress
Mindset
{noun}
a set of beliefs or a way of thinking
that determines ones behaviour,
outlook and mental attitude.
Growth Mindset:
LEARN AT ALL COSTS
Growth Mindset:
WORK HARD, EFFORT IS KEY
Fixed
Growth
Questionnaire
GROWTH
GROWTH
KS4 Hits
KS4 Misses
Hits vs Misses
6 = GROWTH
Number: 21 (23)
GM Mean: 3.75 (3.77)
Median: 4.00 (3.88)
Highest: 4.88 (4.75)
Lowest: 1.88 (2.25)
Absent: 1
1 = FIXED
Shortlisted for:
Outstanding Staff
Training Initiative
Target Setting?
Once you start to think hard about what Dweck
says you begin to question everything about what
you do as a school leader. If Dweck is right and in
my personal experience I think she is then setting
students grades as targets is deeply flawed. The
Subject Leaders of our two most successful A levels,
the ones which are about to explode out the top of
the ALPs thermometer and make an awful mess,
both fessed up to me this autumn that they dont
look at students targets, they dont consciously
differentiate, they just teach to A* standard all of the
time to all of the students.
effort + strategies +
help from others.
- Yeager Walton Cohen 2013
Priority 1
Growth Mindset
Priority 2
Growth Mindset
Language
Praise
Make your
expectations explicit
Memory
Mostly
Agree
Mostly
Disagree
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10
11.
12.
Strongly
agree
Ave
Total
Ave
Total
Ave
Total
Ave
Total
Ave
72
60
48
36
24
71
5.9
59
4.9
47
3.9
35
2.9
23
1.9
70
5.8
58
4.8
46
3.8
34
2.8
22
1.8
69
5.75
57
4.75
45
3.75
33
2.75
21
1.75
68
5.7
56
4.7
44
3.7
32
2.7
20
1.7
67
5.6
55
4.6
43
3.6
31
2.6
19
1.6
66
5.5
54
4.5
42
3.5
30
2.5
18
1.5
65
5.4
53
4.4
41
3.4
29
2.4
17
1.4
64
5.3
52
4.3
40
3.3
28
2.3
16
1.3
63
5.25
51
4.25
39
3.25
27
2.25
15
1.25
62
5.2
50
4.2
38
3.2
26
2.2
14
1.2
61
5.1
49
4.1
37
3.1
25
2.1
13
1.1
Fixed
Mindset
1
Growth
Mindset
6