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Growth Mindset - Counter Argument to Boaler - 1 views

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mindset Talking Points

shared by j0emcrae on 13 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • I believe that helping our students to find their way a growth mindset is so important it must become one of the pillars of our math teaching
  • The bottom line is this: if you believe that a learner can simply let go of their fixed mindset just because you tell them to, then I have a bridge to sell you.
  • start developing a more mindful approach to helping students engage with a growth mindset.
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  • The only successful way to work with defense mechanisms — the only way that has been shown to bring about long-term inner change, either in a therapeutic or in an inner development context, such as mindfulness — involves empowering learners to gently and non-coercively notice their own defense mechanisms when they pop up.
  • j0emcrae on 13 Sep 16
     
    The blogger describes some of the dangers in simply telling kids to adopt a growth mindset. Then offers an alternative approach - see additional posts on talking points.
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