James Nottingham-Keynote 3

Growth Mindset - Carol Dweck

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Feedback
Draw a house and give feedback - always refer to questions:
What am I trying to achieve?
How much progress have I made so far?
What could I do to improve?

When asking for a house discuss features, size etc. Give students the opportunity to give each other better feedback.  Decide on the criteria for better feedback together.
WALTS and success criteria is pointless unless it refers to feedback

7 Steps to Feedback Heaven  ...

                      being clear about what the focus is on.

     1. Set goals

2. Draft One
3. Peer/self assessment - teachers don’t jump in and take over. Kids are learning how to coach each other.
4. Edit - represents what they can do by themselves - ‘wobbling’ - independently
5. Teacher feedback - BEFORE they finish so they can apply it now instead of next time.
6. Finalise work - 
7. Grade - keep it separate from feedback. Good grade = don’t need to improve. Bad grade = can’t improve!

growth mindset amplifies the progress people have made to get to where they are.

Michael Phelps story - growth mindset emphasises the journey they took to get there. Fixed mindset is, they are born with it.

is in a fixed or growth mindset - you don’t have one or the other. You are in

The power of YET- I can’t do this yet

“I can’t do this yet”  reply - no you can’t not yet.

 

So What? What next?

I have been using the language of Growth Mindset for the last 2 years. We share the 'Yet' mantra often. Next, I need to make a greater shift to the students giving each other better feedback. Supporting, modelling and co-creating criteria to give them the language they will need to achieve this.