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What if everything you knew about mindsets and resilience was wrong?

Sep 24, 2018 | Category: Featured

Here are the slides I use for my talk at researchED Malmö: What if everything you know about mindsets and resilience is wrong? from David Didau The following is the English text of an article I wro...

#Growth mindset #Grit #resilience

Is resilience even a thing?

May 03, 2017 | Category: Featured

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. G. K. Chesterton Resilience - being able to bounce back from setbacks and cope with challenges - seems an...

#Grit #Angela Duckworth #resilience #Kathryn Ecclestone #Paul Tough #Tricot & Sweller #William James

Grit and growth: who's to blame for low achievement?

Jul 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

I’ve recently read a couple of interesting articles which question the efficacy of the research of Carol Dweck (Mindset) and Angela Duckworth (Grit). The complaint is that if we attribute an individua...

#Carol Dweck #Cristina Milos #Joe Bower #Growth mindset #Grit #Angela Duckworth #Gary Walsh

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 4: Practise

Jul 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

What does practice make? Well, it turns out that my mum was wrong. Doug Lemov points out in Practice Perfect that practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. What we practise we get good...

#deliberate practice #Ron Berger #Flow #Grit #Doug Lemov

The Grand Unified Theory of Mastery

Mar 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

Is this all you need to know about motivation, learning and professional development? No, probably not. But, it is a beguilingly complete way of tying together many of the theories which have baffled...

#deliberate practice #Growth mindset #Flow #Grit #Helsinki Bus Station Theory #talent