"Growth" vs. "Fixed" Minds

I thought this video was extremely interesting. The "Fixed" mindset which is one that makes students believe they have a fixed trait. It ends up making students concerned with how much they have. They worry about how they will be seen and base the things that they do on how their intelligence will be shown. Those with a "Growth" mindset believe that their intelligence is something that they can develop over the course of time through different activities and passions. Carol Dweck who is the author of "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success," discusses this workshop that was created to teach children the growth mindset. Half of the students got study skills and a growth mindset and the others got only study skills. They found that the students with the growth mindset workshop were taught how to apply things and ultimately ended up doing better than those who didn't because the others really had no motivation for applying those study skills.

I think this would be a great things to remember in my classroom because if I am going to try and teach my students to have a growth mindset I have to truly develop one and believe that it is the best thing. We cannot keep up with the changes in the world if we cannot learn and grow. One thing that was great to hear was that I cannot be a good mentor without having a growth mindset. I really do believe that this is true. I am not 100% sure how I will apply this in my classroom, but I do know that intelligence does develop over time through discovering new passions or new activities. I thought this was a great video and really made me think.