You'll learn more about yourself by studying these two mindsets.
I admit I’ve been a little slow rolling out new products recently. My husband and I are expecting our first child in a couple weeks, so time has been diverted to assembling furniture, washing miniature socks, finding miniature socks ones they get lost in the washer, etc! However, I’ve been thinking about this product for ...
It's been a weird sort of two weeks without a regular blog; here are the top five things what I've learned on the road: 5. I really delight in planting seeds. And my message What you plant will grow! has been well-received. 4. I really enjoy collaborating with other character educators and seeing the good stuff that's already going on in their schools. 3. I really thrive on challenging educators to want more for themselves {and their kids} and to get better. Every day. 2. I really appreciate the people who are willing to provide transportation so I don't have to navigate their towns in a rental. 1. I really rely on the hotels to have a working blow dryer {don't ask!}. Based on Carol Dweck's work, here's a popular Mindset slide I found at Mind, Body, Cheer that I've been challenging school family members to think about, for themselves first, then the students under their mentorship and care: So now I'm home and eager to get back into the groove of things. What a rush to welcome our new families, then reconnect with our returning families back shortly thereafter Thursday evening. Talk about a healthy overdose of hugs and happiness! Such a blessing to get to start over again every August. To wipe the slate clean and start our stories anew. To sharpen our tools and perfect our craft. Last night my husband took us out to dinner and then to a Games 'n Comics story. There, I found a bin of colorful marbles for ten cents each, and I hand-picked 85 of them, one for each faculty member. I'm making these to put in faculty boxes tomorrow: It's adapted from an idea that a counseling colleague in cyberspace threw out there; I'm going to sign each of them to remind our faculty and staff that counselors are on campus for them, too. Because, guess what? The newness of August will wear off. Even the strongest of staff members will start to weaken a bit. Just like magicians have to restock their bag of tricks, superheroes must recharge their energy source. So I want to make sure teachers and support staff alike know that I'm here and available to meet their needs, too. Oh, and a box of books just arrived from Amazon, so check back regularly for new reviews and ideas. Here's to a terrific new year to flourish, thrive and grow.
The psychological origins of waiting (... and waiting, and waiting) to work
Do you realize how close you are to turning your dreams into your reality? If you could see how close you are to success, you’d be kicking yourself that you haven’t just reached out to grab it yet. The truth is, no matter how much you feel like a failure, success is literally waiting to flood your life. The only thing you have to do, is tear down the “Success Floodgates” holding it back. Here’s 3 “Success Floodgates” holding back your dreams: 1. Making Excuses If we choose someone successful to look at as an example, like Steve Jobs, we’ll
How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
It is a myth that we operate under a set of oppressive bureaucratic constraints. In reality, teachers have a great deal of autonomy in the work they chose to do in their classrooms. In most cases i…
The force v the darkside #edutech #ausedchat #mindset growth vs fixed
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Activities: Growth Mindset Lesson and Worksheets Are you teaching your students about growth mindset? Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak is a perfect segue for teaching your students the power of growth mindset. Conceptually, these ideas are perfect for any level, but this literature unit was created for 3rd-6th graders in mind. I recommend starting the school year (or your growth mindset instruction) with material that teaches students about the brain. This provides students with a solid foundation for building subsequent growth mindset instruction. PLEASE NOTE: There is a unit created for 1st-2nd grade as well, and can be found here: YOUR FANTASTIC ELASTIC BRAIN (LOWER-GRADE VERSION) Infused with reflections, challenges (including a STEM challenge for creating slingshots using rubber bands), and opportunities to identify and clarify growth mindset vs fixed mindset, your students are sure to learn and have great fun! Your Fantastic Elastic Brain activities included: Brainstorming ways to use elastics Comparing and contrasting using a Venn diagram Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset Prompts for student reflections A rubber band challenge Identifying parts of the brain and their purpose Fantastic Elastic Brain bookmarks (in full color and black and white) Slingshot STEM challenge Growth Mindset Posters (5 posters in full color and in black and white) Answer Keys where deemed appropriate NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION! This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet. WAIT! This literature companion is part of a Growth Mindset Literature Unit (MONEY-SAVING) BUNDLE!: GROWTH MINDSET PICTURE BOOK BUNDLE THE BUNDLE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING GROWTH MINDSET PICTURE BOOKS: YOUR FANTASTIC ELASTIC BRAIN (UPPER GRADE VERSION) THE GIRL WHO NEVER MADE MISTAKES BEAUTIFUL OOPS BY BARNEY SALTZBERG THE DOT BY PETER H REYNOLDS Do you want DAILY Growth Mindset Bell Ringers for ANY GRADE LEVEL? Choose your grade here: GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for Kinder-1st Grade GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 2ND-3RD Grade GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 4th Grade and Up
Here are 22 of our favorite Pinterest quotes. Some are goofy, some are heartfelt, but all of them should be a reminder that you are awesome.
Help students differentiate between growth mindset statements and fixed mindset statements with this FREE learning center!
We did it. We officially launched our college kids back to their senior year and sophomore year respectively. And we survived without too many tears. Now it's time for us here in Friendswood to launch into the 2014-2015 school year. Covey wisdom, beginning with the end in mind, coupled with an idea from Autumn Bockart, a loving sixth-grade teacher at Friendswood Junior High. She adapted the inquiry from Linda Ellis' poignant poem The Dash between our birth and our death. We all get to write the story of our dash, every day. And when our students come to us seeking guidance with their dash, we get to help them find and unleash their powers to navigate learning and maximize flight. How awesome is that? Kind of reminds me of the new Lita Judge book Flight School. Some of your students will come to you looking like this, an awkward but eager little penguin, showing up to flight school, determined to take wing and fly. Just listen to this beautiful exchange from the opening page: "But you, dear, are a penguin," Teacher replied. "Undeniable," said Penguin, "but I have the soul of an eagle." What will it take to change the fixed mindset that says once a penguin, always a penguin? What do you need to do to empower those passionate penguins to take flight and soar? How do we reframe our look at flying if/when they don't get off the ground with quite as much ease or finesse as the eagles do? And maybe not at all? Discuss the maxim: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. What does that mean? When were those words meaningful to you personally? What was that experience like and what did you learn? Is it ever okay to recalculate your route? When? How? What if it means letting go of your dreams? More brilliance from the book: Penguin was right. He did have the soul of an eagle. He just needed a little help with the technical parts. As we head into this year's dash, don't our little birds deserve to see their potential as eagles, not their limitations as penguins? We must take our role as flight instructors to assist and support them with "the technical parts" seriously. How will you grow your mindset so that they have permission to grow theirs? What an amazing opportunity lies ahead as we launch into a new year.
I've had a lot of frustration this year with students that aren't willing to try. I often hear, "I can't" or "I don't want to" or "this is too hard." There have been several nights when I have laid awake thoroughly depressed over my inability to motivate them. Then I stumbled across something interesting on Pinterest (yeah, Pinterest!) yesterday: the concept of growth mindset vs. fixed mindset. I spent the next two hours (oops! forgot about dinner) reading everything I could find. It all started with a post on Twitter that someone had pinned, and ultimately led me to an excellent PowerPoint presentation by Eve Coates on Teachers Pay Teachers. I showed it to my kids today, and it was amazing! In clear, concise, kid-friendly language it explains how in order to learn you need to do hard things. But it also goes into how hard things can be fun and engaging. It talks about making mistakes, and how mistakes can actually help your brain to grow. My second graders were thoroughly engaged throughout, and it led us into a wonderful discussion on what it means to be a successful learner. My only regret is that I didn't find it sooner in the year! After watching the PowerPoint, we made a chart to remind us of what growth mindset language and fixed mindset language sounded like. Normally, I would share, but I can't since I used copyrighted images of Calvin. It will have to suffice to say that it was easy to make with images that I found on the internet. Once I made it, I printed it on my school's poster printer. I added the speech bubbles as we had our discussion after watching the PowerPoint. Oh! I also found some great videos having to do with growth mindset and persistence here.
We know our students tend to struggle with more than just the areas our assessments have indicated. Many of them tend to receive more than just speech because they are challenged by the overall learning environment of their classrooms, and for many students this leads them to feel defeated, unintelligent, angry, etc. We know our students have more potential and possibilities than they realize, so it is important to use the right type of language with them to help to start to undo all those negative thoughts and feeling. I am talking about using language from a 'Growth Mindset' standpoint.
Do you have the right mindset? This lesson is based off the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck. After reading about the fixed vs. growth mindsets and their consequences, I knew this concept was too important not to share. If I wasn't clear in this video, I recommend that you read
I am so honored you’re here! Teaching is hard work. I help elementary teachers ease the burden and bring the BLISS into teaching.
3 Activities to Help Your Students Overcome Making Mistakes Creativity % %
People with growth mindset have a better approach towards things than the fixed mindsets. It is always required to improve in life and rise above than your existing performance. But if you feel that you are a fixed mindset, then what do you do? Don’t worry; it is possible to develop growth mindset too. Both are things related to our minds, and can be developed or altered as per our choice. To do so, here are the suggestions one should follow to develop a growth mindset. It will help you to look at situations and problems from a new perspective.
Hey Trev, how about a 1 min. 16 sec. mindset refresher before we start? No prob. The premise is pretty straight forward: Our mindsets and views on learning have a massive impact on our success in the short and long term. People who believe that they can grow their intelligence and abilities are said to have …
Help students develop a growth mindset with this easy to use 5 week school counseling group. Growing Minds is a low-prep growth mindset group set to ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. Students will learn how their brain is like a muscle, how they can learn from mistakes, and why challenges are beneficial. Group Outline Week 1: Your Brain is like a Muscle Week 2: Learning from Mistakes Week 3: The Power of Yet Week 4: Learning from Challenges Week 5: Reflection Click here to save 20% with the COUNSELING GROUP BUNDLE WHAT’S INCLUDED Each Week: ↠ Group Rules: Suggested and DIY Group Rules poster so students can take ownership of the creation of the group rules and norms ↠ Feelings Check: Feelings Check Poster to serve as a visual aid for students to self-reflect on their emotional state at the start of each session ↠ Journal: Self-reflections with writing prompts ↠ Outlines: Easy to follow outlines with clear objectives and how they meet the ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. ↠ Games & Activities: A wide variety of games and activities each week including board games, interactive crafts, collages, sort and paste, logic puzzles and other crafts. ↠ Self-Assessments: Pre and post group self-assessments to track student growth and make data collection easy! Discussion Icebreakers Include: 2 Sets of Growth Mindset Discussion Cards 2 Discussion Games Discussion Dice Videos Include: Links to 5 Class Dojo© Videos to supplement activities and facilitate discussion BENEFITING STUDENTS Each week students will develop skills they can use at home and in school to help them foster growth mindsets . In addition, they will improve communication skills and gain a better understanding of how they can grow from their challenges. At a minimum, being in the counseling group allows students to identify and share their feelings, develop self-esteem through participation, and practice empathy while hearing others’ experiences. SAVING TIME With easy to implement outlines and activities, this group curriculum is very low-prep. Simply print out each session before students arrive and keep them in a file folder. The self-assessments are a great way to get students to self-reflect on their progress and you can then share this information with teachers, parents, or in your program report. Also make sure to track your data and compile it in an end of the year report. Here is an outline I created to make it easy! Who is this Group Designed For? Growing Minds is designed for small groups of students grades 2-6. It can also be modified to work for other grades and individual lessons. RELATED SCHOOL COUNSELING RESOURCES: ⁕ Group Curriculum Bundle ⁕ Ready to Regulate- Self Regulation Group ⁕ Mission Growth Mindset- Guidance Lesson ⁕ Growth Mindset Board Game Visit Bright Futures School Counseling Blog and subscribe to my email list to gain access to my Small Group Cheat Sheet. You will also receive a weekly email with my latest school counseling tips, research, and freebies! Follow me on social media to be the first to learn about sales and new resources! School Counseling Simplified Podcast Bright Futures Counseling INSTAGRAM Bright Futures Counseling FACEBOOK
When you shift your pattern of behavior, you will change your life.
In one of the courses that I am taking for my Master’s of Education, I came across a topic that really struck a chord with me. I am taking two courses at the moment ( my March “Break” has been pivotal
