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Doubts about Dweck? The problem with praise

Jan 27, 2012 | Category: learning

Back in 2010 I was introduced to Carol Dweck's research into fixed and growth mindsets and the scales fell from my eyes. It was an epiphany. A veritable Damascene conversion. And like Saul before me,...

#Carol Dweck #mindsets #John Hattie #Effort #Peanuts #praise

Easy vs Hard

Sep 16, 2011 | Category: Featured

We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. - JFKWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleA teachers' job is not to...

#mindsets #Dweck #Gove #Effort #John Fowles #Michael Jordan #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Susanna Rustin

Do It Yourself

Sep 05, 2011 | Category: learning

There is a certain amount of irony in the title of today's post in that I haven't written it myself. Instead it comes from the typing fingers of the marvellous Kenny Pieper. His excellent blog Just Tr...

#mindsets #Kenny Pieper #Sugata Mitra

How to fix your attitude

Aug 31, 2011 | Category: learning

Can you change how intelligent you are? Can you alter your personality? Can a student predicted a D grade get an A*? Are there things it is simply impossible for us to do?I’ve always fancied the idea...

#Carol Dweck #growth #mindsets #fixed #motivation

The Learning Loop

Jul 12, 2011 | Category: learning

For last few years we (the English faculty) have been teaching our GCSE course over 3 years. I made the decision this time last year to begin our three year programme of study with a scheme of learnin...

#learning #Belbin #Carol Dweck #critical skills #growth #learning spies #messy learning #mindsets #PLTS #process #product