Perhaps no other book has been cited in educational circles recently than Mindset by Carol Dweck. But what is mindset; and how does it impact student success? Discover how mindset relates to goal setting, effort, strategy, grit, and [learning from] failure; uncover how the words educators and parents use impact children’s mindset in addition to ways to reframe challenging situations; and learn how to implement growth mindset strategies at school.

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2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3HxrW1qZk
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18. Does this mean that we cant praise children enthusiastically when they do something
great? Should we try to restrain our admiration for their successes? Not at all, in fact
without praise, motivation declines. It just means we should keep away from a certain kind
of praise – praise that judges their intelligence or talent rather than the work they put in.
We can praise them as much as we want for the growth-oriented process – what they
accomplished through practice, persistence and good strategies. And we can ask them
about their work in a way that admires and appreciates their efforts and choices. Staff
found at first this took a great deal of conscious effort to always talk about and praise the
pupil’s approach to learning rather than evaluating. It was challenging for us to change our
language. For a while, we had lots of conversations in the staffroom about it. We being
ultra tuned in to the words we used and the words used by others.
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21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uDDEEHDf1Y
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23. Here’s one word that reinforces the growth mindset when a student believes s/he cannot
do something (i.e. “I can’t do this.”).
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32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMidSZ_Idos
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38. http://choiceschools.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/10-Growth-Mindset-
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40. https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability/transcript?language=en
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