Carol Dweck
Psychologist at Stanford University, where she holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology; known for research on motivation and mindset and the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
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A growth mindset is not just about effort
A growth mindset isn’t just about effort. Perhaps the most common misconception is simply equating the growth mindset with effort.
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A growth mindset is not just about effort
A growth mindset isn’t just about effort. Perhaps the most common misconception is simply equating the growth mindset with effort.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
Students need new strategies and input from others, not just sheer effort, to learn
Students need to try new strategies and seek input from others when they’re stuck. They need this repertoire of approaches—not just sheer effort—to learn and improve.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
A growth mindset means telling students the truth about their achievement and helping them improve
It is about telling the truth about a student’s current achievement and then, together, doing something about it, helping him or her become smarter.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
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Teachers should look for ways to help children learn rather than reasons they cannot
Must it always come back to finding a reason why some children just can’t learn, as opposed to finding a way to help them learn? Teachers who understand the growth mindset do everything in their power to unlock that learning.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
Reaching a growth mindset is a journey, not a declaration
But the path to a growth mindset is a journey, not a proclamation.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
Everyone is a mix of fixed and growth mindsets, and growth means staying aware of fixed-mindset thoughts
Let’s acknowledge that (1) we’re all a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets, (2) we will probably always be, and (3) if we want to move closer to a growth mindset in our thoughts and practices, we need to stay in touch with our fixed-mindset thoughts and deeds.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
Banning the fixed mindset, or using mindset measures for accountability, breeds false growth mindsets
If we “ban” the fixed mindset, we will surely create false growth-mindsets. (By the way, I also fear that if we use mindset measures for accountability, we will create false growth mindsets on an unprecedented scale.)
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
The growth-mindset message may have stressed effort too much and made change sound too easy
Maybe we originally put too much emphasis on sheer effort. Maybe we made the development of a growth mindset sound too easy.
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' (Education Week) Said 22 Sept 2015
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Site profiles.stanford.edu Stanford faculty profile
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