Week 5 - LDC - Developing a Growth Mindset (Leading change)
ClassNotes: Growth mindset in a leadership context “comes from a belief that those we lead can be motivated to improve and grow their practices. This choice usually involves including many stakeholders in decision-making, over-communicating the vision, mission, and goals, building shared values, and providing specific, targeted, timely feedback.
A Growth-Minded [Leadership] Choice might result in this:
- Validates and addresses staffs fears and barriers
- Communicates the vision explicitly
- Provides support to those who lack knowledge or skills
- Creates an opportunity to share research and information
- Allows everyone access to growth opportunities
- Shares the work load among all staff”
(Diehl, 2013)
Carol Dweck -
Provocation:
Intelligence is innate (in born/ Natural) and cannot be developed beyond what you are born with -
What is intelligence??
- Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.
Claxton 2008 - Intelligence has become defined as the kind of mind that responds most readily to the peculiar demands of school
Schools are changing to meet needs of learners
Growth Mindset
The way schools define intelligence (becomes important)
Intelligence
Preview- there is a fixed intelligence measured by IQ test
no matter how much you do it is what it is
current view - brain is malleable - muscle can grow stronger
A mindset is a mental attitude that determines how iwl interpret and respond to situations
fixed mindset intelligence is fixed trait(Dweck 2001)
Growth Mindset - intelligence is quality that can be changed and developed
It’s not what you are born with that matters it is your mindset that matters
growth mindset allows for failure
Fixed mindset - no risk taking
knowledge does not mean understanding
Assumptions about how we think….
We all have a rigid way of thinking
neuroplasticity - more plastic in brain…(children have more)
( Taxi drivers brain…….)
embodied cognition
- Embodied Cognition is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes.
to do….
How might we build a growth mindset in our learners?
- the power of not yet
- change our ‘ language: talk about learning rather than work
- Use our wall displays to document the learning process as well as the final product
- praise and reward effort, process, perseverance ( rather than intelligence or talent)
Changing mindsets……..semantics is important the way we thinking about
Talk about failure/ celebrate failures...that is all its about…
Failure (first attempt in learning) =FAIL
through trying again you learn
Addison - Light blub… (celebrate failures)
We Created a list of comments we hear from our students -
- I'm bored
- It's too hard - what can I do to help you
- can't be bothered
- can't do it
- why are we doing
- does it gives us credits
(That is not how we do it here - why do we that way…..)
Not willing to learn and open up…...What are they modelling to their children
‘we just have to do it’
Resistant!!!
Teach people to collaborate??? How?
Try and challenge the way do things - Assumptions
How can we build resilience, curiosity, Resourcefulness and persistence in your students???
-Challenge assumptions
-Personalised learning
Choose what you value as an educator ….
Change the focus ( thinking of ways)
