Mindsets

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be invited to a meeting at my sons school about mindsets.
It was really quite interesting and thought provoking.

Professor Dweck has done research in the area and she says"In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don't necessarily think everyone's the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it."

Below is an image explaining the difference.

My daughter has a growth mindset but I can see my son has a fixed mindset in many areas so we'll need to do some work with him so he can fulfil his potential.