As I just posted on another thread I'm starting to see the shine on Growth Mindset starting to tarnish a little.
It is certainly all the rage in schools at the moment, my school has posters up all over the place about seeing mistakes as stepping stones to success and how it's possible to improve with practice and so on. We are told to praise effort over achievement and other sensible-sounding things. However, there seems to be a bit more to the whole thing than that, and children might be identified as having a 'fixed mindset' and interventions put in place, which starts sounding a bit culty to me.
What are other schools doing?
It might be worth being aware that the evidence might not be all that.
These researchers struggled to explain why their growth mindset intervention program in the UK didn't produce statistically significant results:
educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Changing_Mindsets.pdf
and David Didau wrote this blog (which is well worth a read) wondering whether Growth Mindset is slipping into pseudoscience. The poster in there which he has seen in a school is awful!
www.learningspy.co.uk/research/is-growth-mindset-pseudoscience/
Are we being sold another Brain Gym?
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Growth Mindset - brilliant or bobbins?
noblegiraffe · 21/11/2015 14:01
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