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Speaker: Carol Dweck discusses The Growth Mindset
Students challenged with "a little too hard" problems.
Some responded:
Others responded:
Fixed mind-set students run from an error and their brain activity is low.
Growth mind-set students had much greater brain activity!
Abilities can be developed.
Process, Learn, and Correct: Using these steps help students learn and move forward.
Praise the process the student engages in.
Effort, Strategy, and Process: Reward process instead of 'right' or 'first' or 'most'.
The word 'yet' promotes considering learning into the future, rather than an end and binary success vs failure.
There are chronic under-performers like kids in inner-cities or on american reservations.
However growth mind-set teaching makes a difference per [National Achievement Tests provided supporting data].
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