The Journey to A Growth Mindset Scandinavia

August, 2017

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How do we make sure people

remain learners?

Mindsets Matter

Fixed Mindset: Intelligence is a fixed trait

Growth Mindset: Intelligence can be developed

We are all a mixture…

Brain Plasticity

Alfred Binet

Today’s Plan

I. Why mindsets matter

II. The long journey to a growth mindset

III. Transmitting a growth mindset (also a long

journey)

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Part I. Mindsets Matter

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All the 10th graders in

Chile

Claro, Paunedku, & Dweck, 2016

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Can A Whole Organization

Have a Mindset?

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Fortune 500 Companies

Murphy, Chatman, Kray, & Dweck, in prep.

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Why Aren’t We Always in a

Growth Mindset?

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Fixed Mindset Triggers

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Mindset Trigger #1: Stepping Out of Your Comfort

Zone

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Mindset Trigger #2

Struggle

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Mindset Trigger #3:

Setbacks & Criticism

Processing of Errors Moser, Schroder, Heeter, Moran, & Lee, 2011

The Battle Within Us All

Fixed Mindset

1. Never look dumb

2. Try not to work hard or

seek help

3. Run from difficulty

Growth Mindset

1. Learn

2. Work hard, use strategies,

seek help to learn

3. Learn from mistakes

• Grades & test scores are a natural by-product of learning.

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II. The Journey to a Growth

Mindset

For Educators

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An Outbreak In Australia

False Growth Mindset

What is False Growth Mindset?

Equating GM with sheer effort

1. Focusing only on effort, which is just one

route to learning

2. Exhorting children to try hard

3. Praising ineffective effort

What is False Growth Mindset?

Ignoring the Classroom Context

1.“Diagnosing” and Labeling the Child

2.Making the children responsible for their

mindset

3.Not understanding that classroom and school

triggers are critically important

High-stakes testing culture.

What is False Growth Mindset?

Declaring You “Have It” Instead of Taking the

Journey

1.It is not simply being open-minded or flexible

2.It is not simply thinking kids can learn (some a

little but others a lot)

3.It’s hard work to attain and stay in a GM

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The First Step…

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Legitimize the Fixed

Mindset! Acknowledge that we’re all a mixture

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Watch for Your Fixed-

Mindset Triggers

Name and Claim Your Fixed

Mindset

Notice when your fixed mindset emerges: triggers

Name and Claim Your Fixed

Mindset

Notice when your fixed mindset emerges: triggers

Name your fixed mindset person (Really!)

Think about how it affects you and others

Have conversations about it (and with it!)

Set small goals: What you will do next time?

Name and Claim Your Fixed

Mindset

Students have fixed-mindset

personas too.

Share thoughts, ideas, opinions

Ask questions

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III. Transmitting a Growth

Mindset To Students

Aronson et al., 2002; Blackwell et al., 2007; Good et al., 2003;

Paunesku et al., 2015; Yeager et al., 2016

Direct-To-Student Programs

1. Asks for student’s help in developing program

2. Teaches growth mindset & neuroscience

3. Teaches how to apply GM to schoolwork

4. Presents testimonials from older students and admired adults

5. Frequently solicits student’s opinions

6. Asks student to mentor struggling classmate in terms of GM

principles.

Grades in Maths (Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck, 2007)

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Before After

Control

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How can we reach more

students? With Dave Paunesku, David Yeager, Carissa Romero, Greg Walton

High School: Effect on Grades Students in Bottom Tercile

(Paunesku et al., 2015)

Community College:

Effect on Grades

Course Dropout Students Who Withdrew From Remedial Maths

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National Study

A Nation of Learners?

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What About Teacher-to-

Student Transmission?

A Big Surprise

Teachers: Sun, 2015; Hooper et al., in prep; Parents: Gunderson

et al, 2013; Haimovitz & Dweck, 2016

The Good Old Days

Used to think things were simple:

Growth mindset is a simple concept

And once adults have it they can easily pass it on

We were wrong

Some Very Surprising Findings

Are parents’ and teachers’ transmitting their growth mindsets?

Gunderson, Gripshover, Romero, Dweck, Goldin-Meadow, and Levine, 2013

Sun, 2015

Haimovitz & Dweck, 2016

Park, Gunderson, Tsukayama, Levine, & Beilock, 2016

Hooper, Haimovitz, Wright, Murphy, & Yeager, in prep.

How is this possible????

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Educators Do Not Always Walk the Walk

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Focus on Process

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When Children Succeed

Tie Their Successful Strategy to

Their Learning

Process Praise (Not just effort!!!)

Mueller & Dweck, 1998; Kamins & Dweck, 1999; Cimpian et al.,

2007; Gunderson et al., 20013; Pomerantz & Kempner, 2013.

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When Children Struggle

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The Fabulous Struggle

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When Children Struggle:

“Yet”

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: “Yet” Comes to the United Nations

Haimovitz, Walton, & Dweck, in prep.

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When Children Fail: Focus on the Learning Process

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Failure of the Year Award

Haimovitz & Dweck, 2016; Sun, 2015; Hooper, et al., in prep.

What GM teachers (and parents)

do…

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Dweck, 2016)

Example of parent; community college math teacher

What GM teachers do…

Treat failures as beneficial for learning

Collaborate on correction processes (Hooper et al., in

prep):

“Show me what you’ve done and let’s figure out what you

can try next.”

More pointers from research…

Link to larger goals: What is the contribution you

would like to make? (Yeager et al., 2014)

Not just school achievement but also school

discipline: Focus on student’s ‘psychology’, not

their traits (Okonofua et al., 2016)

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Thank you!