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Dr. Almudena Aguirre-Romero

How to Instill a Growth Mindset

• What is mindset?
• Types of mindset
• Why is so important?
• How to instill a growth mindset?

What is mindset?

Types of mindset

Carol S. Dweck

With the right mindset and the right teaching, people are capable of a lot more than we think

Dr. Jason Fox

Games are work that has been well designed

Marva Collins

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been

Marva Collins

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything

Why is it so important?

Mindset at work

Growth

• Inspired by other person's success
• Able to admit that you don't know something
• Ready to learn

Fixed

• Feedback is seeing as criticism
• Other people's success is seen as a threat
• Afraid to admit that you don't know something

Mindset in Relationships

Growth

• "How can we work on this?"
• "Let's talk about it"
• "We are different, but we don't have to prove that one is better than the other"

Fixed

• "We are a perfect match, so we don't have to work in our relation".
• "People don't change, so there is no point in talking about a problem".
• "Everything was so good and now it is so bad".
• "One moment my partner was the light of my life, and next, my adversary".

How can we instill a growth mindset?

Steps we can take with our students

• Make them reflect about their mindset
• Make them take a test about it
• Ask them about a situation when their mindset was changed
• Promote the language of growth mindset
• Encourage them to understand the power of "yet"
• Make them reflect what they could have done better
• Present skills as learnable

• Ask them to share advices to help others
• Share our own strength and weakness with your students
• Make goal-setting assignments
• Create assignments with different learning styles
• Create projects, authentic assignments
• Encourage group work
• Gamify our course
• Praise the effort

Steps we can take

Mary Oliver

References:

• Mindset: The New Phychology of Sucess. How to Lear to Fulfill our Potential. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. Ballantine Books. New York, 2006
• https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/6606-marva-collins
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marva_Collins
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-creative-mindset-helps-fuel-resilience-kieran-flanagan/
• Gerard Aflague Collectio. American English Growth Mindset Teacher Classroom Poster.

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