In yesterday’s post about our Parent/Teacher Book Study on Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, I neglected to mention that Dweck recently wrote an article for Education Week called, “Carol Dweck Revisits the Growth Mindset.” In the article, Dweck points out that some who claim to practice and teach the Growth Mindset often … Read more
Something I saw on Twitter about a year ago planted a seed in my head that it would be great to have a Parent/Teacher book study. I’d just read Mindset by Carol Dweck, and thought that would be the perfect book. We got a grant from our PTA to buy 30 books, with the idea … Read more
The only thing more intimidating than coming up with an idea for your last blog post of the year is coming up with a topic for your first post of the year. I looked up my first post of 2014. It was about changing mindsets from Fixed to Growth, based on the research of Carol Dweck. … Read more
I’ve been collecting more and more resources on developing a “Growth Mindset.” Today I wanted to share with you some videos that could be used to teach students about the value of embracing challenges and finding a way to learn from mistakes. A little bit more advanced (vocabulary-wise) than the book, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, this … Read more
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s “Flappy Bird” post, I am trying very hard to maintain a Growth Mindset, and to foster this thinking in my daughter and students. One of my favorite bloggers, Sonya Terborg, also talks about encouraging a Growth Mindset in her classroom. One of her ideas, in this post, … Read more
“You are so smart,” could be the most damaging 4 words that we ever say to children. That sentence may seem innocuous, even encouraging, but repeated use might actually reinforce attributes that we don’t find very appealing: laziness, risk-aversion, the inability to problem-solve. Researchers like Carol Dweck (author of Mindset) are showing that statements like, … Read more