Growth Mindset

Welcome, My name is Larry Roads and today I'll be

teaching you about growth mindset.

This is an important topic in education today as we

find ourselves trying to overcome what they would call fixed

mindset and advocate for this new form of mental preparation

or mental environment of growth mindset.

This young lady on the side here, his name is

Carol Dweck, she's the one who revolutionized this concept of

growth mindset and we're gonna go into detail with that.

So let's first talk about what is growth mindsets?

A lot of words on this slide, but just basically

help you understand what growth mindset, it's positively supporting the

idea that education or knowledge is gained through effort.

It's overcoming the concept that intelligence is inherited or it's

genetically encompassed into our minds instead, what growth mindset keys

up on is that through effort and trials you'll gain

knowledge and this is a really unique concept.

We think of everybody on this, there should be standard,

everybody should know this.

But do we really do we think that every student

who walks into our classroom can be that straight a

student, or do we sometimes see that this student's background

or history is going to let us believe that they

just may not have the mental capacity to become that

straight a student or that great a student that we

all should believe they have.

That's why growth mindset is so important.

We're not only fighting our personal beliefs, were also fighting

the personal beliefs of the student at hand, because these

students are also going to be struggling with the concept

of man, I'm just not intelligent because I haven't scored

well throughout my, my school career.

And yet every time I go in another classroom, I

just set myself a failure.

So we're having to break down those barriers, which, which

is rather difficult.

So let's go into what the difference between each one

is. So fixed mindset and growth mindset, fixed mindset is

where you have people who believe that they just can't

learn or that they are just inherently not as intelligent

as other people.

They fail to to make progress and therefore fallen to

kind of a rut, which causes them to not want

to challenge themselves or obtain a higher level education because

they feel like they just can't, they get this, this

uh, this flat tire, so to speak, that they can't

patch up, they just can't change out.

While growth mindset is just the opposite.

We as teachers and people around these students or these

people who have this growth mindset must understand that we

are there to celebrate the effort and the journey of

becoming more educated.

Not so much the end result, the end result will

still be the same where we all want to see

a massive amount of intelligence or education gain, but we

have to embrace the fact that even the student comes

in the least prepared can eventually get to the level

of every other student and achieve the goals that we

want through a growth mindset.

And that's just simply by saying that, hey, we aren't

there yet, but we're going to get there and if

we can embed that in our students, they're going to

challenge education.

Have this sheer desire to become more proficient at what

they do.

Let's talk about some benefits of growth mindset.

Well, it's pretty simple, right?

The big one I can think of is their self

esteem. Right?

So if you sit back and you talk about growth

mindset and you're like, well, what is the benefit of

growth mindset?

The biggest one is that these students who have been

bad students or struggling students may recover from that and

realize that they can obtain education just with effort.

So now you have this student who comes in your

classroom who maybe not the best student but is willing

to give you 110%.

And I remember I'm a sports guy and I played

a lot of sports, how my father told me that

it doesn't matter how talented you are, if you always

give me 100 10% you're always gonna find success somewhere

another. You're always going to be on that varsity spot,

You're always going to be the one who's playing because

you're giving 100% and eventually you're going to get better.

And it's the same concept of growth mindset.

We want our students to obtain this and get better

at what we're doing and we want that through the

simple concept of just driving, letting them thrive, even though

they're struggling, let them know that they're going to eventually

get there and that will improve their overall confidence, their

self esteem.

They'll see themselves as no longer being.

And I pardon the statement, but the stupid child know

there'll be the student who's going to get there and

that in itself is enough to make a child or

a student's academic career completely change around.

So what are some strategies for the students we can

do here?

Right. So some things we can do is we can

we can normalize struggle.

What that means is that as they struggle through education,

let's just say they're not getting a concept.

We need to reward that.

We need to go, it's okay, you haven't got it,

but you're going to get there and I'm gonna help

you get there, we're gonna get there together.

We need to normalize that struggle to know that everybody

has to go through struggles.

Even the most talented students, those those high high learners

are going to struggle at times and that's okay and

we need to make sure they know it's okay.

We need to let them know that we we value

hard tasks and that we want to challenge their minds.

So that way, instead of giving them remedial tasks that

they can easily conquer and get A and B.

We want them to still get A's and B's.

We want them to strive and have that little bit

of that hard task that makes it really engage their

mind and the process of education.

We want to we want to celebrate mistakes as well

as corrections and what that means is even though they

made a mistake, we need to acknowledge that that mistake

may have happened, but they at least tried.

We need to keep them positively reinforced.

We go through this, we need to set achievable goals.

The student needs to achievable goals, but we also need

to help cultivate those goals into that growth.

We want them to make not easy goals, we want

them to make these goals that are achievable, but they're

difficult to get to and that's important what the students

understand that.

Okay. And we want to work together to create this

coop relationship between us, the other students, their fellow classmates,

help them get better at this, so if they are

struggling, they may reach out to a fellow classmate, help

them better, Right?

And then the biggest thing that we need to understand

is in developing a growth mindset is that we, as

teachers and students need to overcome obstacles and embrace that

that journey to becoming more educated, that's a huge part

of this.

What can we do as educators?

Well, we have to give the value of the process

over the final result.

We all want our kids and our students to receive

A. S.

And B.

S. But more importantly, we want them to understand that

the process to get A and B is more important

than the end result inevitably, if they're pretty focused on

the process, the end result will be great at the

end, ensure that challenges, that challenges are viewed as opportunities

that we see them and go, hey yes, it's gonna

be hard.

But you know, embrace that, that hardness, embrace that challenge

and strive to succeed to overcome it.

That will help you build your comments that will make

you understand that not everything is easy, but when you

achieve it in and makes it that much more sweet

and and savory that you've accomplished that task.

Uh And this one is big for everybody which is

experimenting different teaching methods.

I think some of us get stuck in in uh

teacher oriented classroom and the student centered classrooms some of

us fall into wanting to use Prezi too much or

wanting to use PowerPoint too much or wanting to lecture

or or recite them back to a computer we need

to vary eight are teaching experience that way we can

apply the principals like you D.

L. Principles or universal design principles into our classroom.

That way the students can be enthralled, want to come

in and learn more because they're getting these different avenues

of approach to way to get education from us.

Okay. And then when we need to celebrate those teaching

techniques that we haven't refined yet, we need to understand

that if a teacher comes in and recommends that we're

using, I don't know, project based learning and we're just

not a fan of it and it's been super successful.

We need to embrace that success and maybe then try

it ourselves and continue to challenge ourselves as well.

Just like we're asking our students to challenge themselves in

their growth mindset.

We as educators need to challenge our growth mindset as

well and realize that we are never going to be

perfect at this job.

This is a craft that we have to master.

So we have to work together and take on these

challenges of these neck techniques to make ourselves better as

well. And the biggest thing, just like with students having

this support group where they're reaching out, their fellow peers

are reaching out to teachers to help build upon the

success. We as educators also need to do the same

thing. We need to build a support structure around us

with our classmates, our administrators, professional development people.

That way, we can build a support structure that we

can celebrate our successes.

That way we can bounce ideas off each other that

way we can find the failures and realize that we

can maybe make these things better if we're talking to

our piers because there are teachers out there who are

doing amazing things that you may not know of.

And if you don't reach out, you're never going to

find that fact or get that extra little tidbit to

make you that much better than educator.

And that's what we strive for is being the best

educator, the best craft person we can be by developing

our skills.

So in general, what we're looking at with growth mindset

is that we need to instill that our students can

become better students through just a simple term of yet,

and I think this is a key word yet.

So what we mean by that is when we say

that our students are not getting this or our student

gets frustrated, I don't understand this, you need to reply

back that you don't understand it yet, but you know

what, we're going to sit down and we're gonna figure

this out together.

So that key term yet, which carried away always always

emphasizes, needs to be something that's in our vocabulary and

it is going to be difficult to get there.

But if we work together and we constantly focus on

the fact that every student needs to have a growth

mindset and every teacher needs have a growth mindset, we

are going to eventually become great at what we do

in our students, gonna be great students and it's all

going to lead to great major success in the classroom.

I thank you for your time.

Here's some references for what I cited.

Have a good day, and I will hope to see

you all providing a growth mindset in your classroom.

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