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The document provides information about growth mindsets and fixed mindsets. It discusses three key traits: 1) how students want to appear to others, 2) how they respond to setbacks, and 3) their views on talent versus effort. For each trait, it contrasts a fixed mindset, where students aim to look clever and hide mistakes, with a growth mindset where students focus on learning and confronting mistakes. The document advocates cultivating a growth mindset in students to encourage their abilities and motivation. It also discusses how praise, language, and target setting can influence a fixed versus growth mindset.

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100% found this document useful (3 votes)
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Growth Mindset - John Tomsett Hand Out

The document provides information about growth mindsets and fixed mindsets. It discusses three key traits: 1) how students want to appear to others, 2) how they respond to setbacks, and 3) their views on talent versus effort. For each trait, it contrasts a fixed mindset, where students aim to look clever and hide mistakes, with a growth mindset where students focus on learning and confronting mistakes. The document advocates cultivating a growth mindset in students to encourage their abilities and motivation. It also discusses how praise, language, and target setting can influence a fixed versus growth mindset.

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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.

Dweck's research falls into the category of most of


the best of our research into education, in that it
merely ends up confirming the eternal truths of the
classroom: turn up, work hard, study, do well; work
harder, do better; believe you can improve and you
probably will, believe that you can't and see what
happens.

Tom Bennett, TES

Mindset Trait 1: How you want to appear


to others
Fixed Mindset:
LOOK CLEVER AT ALL COSTS

Growth Mindset:
LEARN AT ALL COSTS

Mindset Trait 1: How you want to appear to


others

Mindset Trait 2 : Responding to


setbacks
Fixed Mindset: Its about me
HIDE MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES

Growth Mindset: Its about learning


CONFRONT MISTAKES & DEFICIENCIES

Mindset Trait 2 : Responding to setbacks

John McEnroe was the world champion of


tennis for 4 consecutive years, but McEnroe
has acknowledged that he responded badly to
setbacks. He has admitted that he didnt
maximise his potential and could have
performed better for longer.

Mindset Trait 3: Talent vs Effort


Fixed Mindset:
IT SHOULD COME NATURALLY

Growth Mindset:
WORK HARD, EFFORT IS KEY

Mindset Trait 3: Talent vs Effort

A GIFT? 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 worlds best.

TYPICAL DAY FOR ANDY MURRAY:


7:30 porridge and protein shake
9:00-11:30 running drills
12:00 rest/lunch
13:00 - 16:00 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

Fixed

Growth

Look clever at all costs

Learn at all costs

When responding to When responding to


setbacks, hide
setbacks, confront and
mistakes and
learn from mistakes
deficiencies
and deficiencies
It should come
naturally

Work hard, effort is


key

Questionnaire

KS2 Eng 4a, Maths 3b, Ave 4c


7C, 2D, 2E (Eng, no Maths)
FIXED

5B, 4C, 1D (inc Eng & Maths)


4

GROWTH

We all have different starting


points, but can all get better
We can have different
mindsets in different areas
You can change your mind,
you can change your mindset
FIXED

GROWTH

KS4 Hits

KS4 Misses

Hits vs Misses

Number: 24 (21 in 2013)


GM Mean: 4.15 (4.02)
Median: 4.38 (4.13)
Highest: 4.88 (5.25)
Lowest: 2.63 (3.13)
Absent: 3

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

Nathan 25% vs 4.50

Chloe 62% vs 1.88

Those with a growth mindset learn from


people; people that help them improve by
being honest and providing constructive
feedback. They seek help from other people
to ensure they develop and grow and,
providing those who help them are of a
growth mindset, they encourage and foster a
love of learning
Dweck

School Reports what do we


communicate about achievement?

Abigail is a bright pupil who


is clearly a gifted historian.

Shortlisted for:
Outstanding Staff
Training Initiative

On the flip chart paper jot down your ideas about


the following statement

You are in a Growth Mindset school; what does it


look like..
feel like..
sound like..

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.

Intelligence praise can undermine motivation and


performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck showed that


praising young adolescents for their
intelligencesaying they were smart when
they did wellcreated a fixed mindset and its
problems. It put students in a world in which
people evaluate intelligence. In contrast,
praising the students process (their effort or
strategies) put children in a growth mindset and
fostered resilience.

Mothers daily person and process praise:


Implications for childrens theory of intelligence and
motivation. Developmental Psychology

Gunderson and colleagues found that how


parents praise 1-3 year-old childrenwhether
they praise the childs effort and process versus
abilitypredicts whether the child will have a
growth mindset and a desire for challenge 5
years later. Similarly, Pomerantz showed that
children aged 8 to 12 whose mothers used
person praise (you are smart) rather than
process praise (you tried hard) showed more
change in the direction of a fixed mindset over a
six-month period.

Its not just about effort


One mistake is to encourage students to give more
effort when they really need not only apply more
effort but also change strategy. Effort is necessary
but it is not the sole ingredient for success. When
confronted with continued failures despite
heightened effort, students might conclude that
they cant succeed, sapping their motivation.
Effective growth mindset interventions challenge
the myth that raw ability matters most by teaching
the fuller formula for success: effort + strategies +
help from others.
- Yeager Walton Cohen 2013

Its not just about effort


Effective growth mindset interventions
teach the fuller formula for success:

effort + strategies +
help from others.
- Yeager Walton Cohen 2013

Priority 1

Growth Mindset

Develop the use of


Growth Mindset language
in the classroom

Priority 2

Growth Mindset

Embed the effort


descriptors
into the schools DNA

Language

Effort only comments in


planners

Praise

Make your
expectations explicit

Memory

How to score your questionnaire


Agree

Mostly
Agree

Mostly
Disagree

Disagree

Strongly
Disagree

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10
11.
12.

Strongly
agree

Work out your score for each


question

How to score your questionnaire


Total

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

Use the grid to work out


your average score.

Growth
Mindset
6

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