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Growth Mind-Set

  • Carol Dwek is one of the world’s most famous researchers on motivation, with specific focus on Growth Mind-Set. A Growth Mind-Set is a pupil’s belief that their intelligence is not fixed, but the more they learn and challenge themselves, the more their intelligence grows.
  • To support students in achieving a Growth Mind -Set teachers need to foster an environment in which failure is the first step to learning and development. Carol Dwek suggests that this helps students deal with failure, thus building their resilience.
  • Example Activity: Provide year 7 students with GCSE questions knowing they will struggle – however, from this point as a teacher you begin to show and demonstrate that failure in your classroom is necessary in order to learn in the future.
  • Demonstrate ways to deal with difficulties and what pupils should do
  • This helps aid planning – you can quickly access who has a fixed or Growth Mind-Set