{"id":266,"date":"2014-08-13T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-08-18T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T10:20:20","slug":"carol-dwecks-mindset-and-my-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2014\/08\/13\/carol-dwecks-mindset-and-my-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Dweck&#8217;s Mindset and My Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of \u00a0growth mindset has been really popular lately. \u00a0I say this because both my school, and my wife&#8217;s school gave us each a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mindsetonline.com\/\">Carol Dweck&#8217;s book<\/a> as summer reading. \u00a0In the downtime between my honeymoon trip to South East Asia\u00a0I read\u00a0Carol Dweck&#8217;s book Mindset as part of the Coast2Coast reading project.\u00a0 The book brought a lot of ideas about how people&#8217;s minds are set, or what types of thinking patterns they lend themselves towards, and how they ultimately lead to success.\u00a0You don&#8217;t need to read the entire book to understand the concepts behind it (You can probably get by with chapters 1,2&amp; 7, and maybe also 3 &amp; 8).<\/p>\n<h4>What Is This Mindset Stuff?<\/h4>\n<p>In the book,\u00a0Dweck\u00a0sets out two options for mindsets. Fixed, someone who thinks that their ability is innate and unchangable, and growth who believes that their abilites can be changed through\u00a0learning and effort. This a brief explanation of this concept that is really diverse, but for a more detailed explanation you can watch this Ted Talk from Eduardo Briceno:<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='629' height='354' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pN34FNbOKXc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">After learning the basics, tt seems obvious that our schools\u00a0should be training people to develop a \u00a0growth mindset, and in Dweck&#8217;s book there is an overwhelming host of examples for why that should be the case.\u00a0 From Relationships to business to parenting, Dweck provides an exhausting number of all the various ways a fixed and growth mindset could show up in real life.\u00a0 The case studies that she provides are instructive, but for an educator, the book leaves you wanting a more in-dept, step-by-step treatment of how to foster and deepen a growth mindset in students and transition students away from a fixed mindset. \u00a0While I can&#8217;t promise to provide that, I plan to explore more of these ideas in the upcoming days and document what I&#8217;m thinking here. \u00a0There are probably a number of other resources for educators for surrounding how to do this with a classroom of students, and I will try to find them. \u00a0I want to think about ways to help kids understand their own mindset and take steps to change it. \u00a0I also want to give feedback in a way not to push kids towards a fixed mindset. \u00a0As I think about what is important to implement in my classroom this fall,\u00a0I plan to share those ideas here in the days to come.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">What are your thoughts about Mindset? \u00a0Put your thoughts in the comments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of \u00a0growth mindset has been really popular lately. \u00a0I say this because both my school, and my wife&#8217;s school gave us each a copy of Carol Dweck&#8217;s book as summer reading. \u00a0In the downtime between my honeymoon trip to South East Asia\u00a0I read\u00a0Carol Dweck&#8217;s book Mindset as part of the Coast2Coast reading project.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-4i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}