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Do you have a Growth Mindset towards your students?
Carol Dweck’s extensive research around mindsets, has firmly established the benefits of students attaining a growth mindset. Those of us who have a growth mindset believe that we can improve intelligence, ability and performance with the right practice and effort. The opposite, a fixed mindset, refers to the belief that our talents and skills are innate and not able to be developed. Fortunately, research indicates that our mindsets can be altered from fixed to growth.
The advantages of a growth mindset include students:
  • More persistent in their learning and more included to seek feedback
  • More motivated and able to self-regulate 
  • Improvements in stress levels and general wellbeing
  • Improved learning orientation and a reduction in the sense of helplessness and giving up
While 98% of educators think developing a growth mindset in their students is important, only 20% feel confident that they have the tools to do so (Inner Drive, 2017). Reboot empowers young people to understand where they are at in their learning, when they need to ask for help and assistance and provides a clear problem-solving framework to support a step by step approach to learning and improvement.
BTW: Sometimes a fixed mindset is super: it’s healthy to think that you can’t manage a 30 meter drop without some form of support. And it is never as simple as a pure growth or fixed mindset: it’s more a continuum.

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Reboot strategies that help foster a Growth Mindset include:
  • Quadrants of Engagement
  • Busting the “I am dumb” myth (neuroscience of the brain as a muscle)
  • Using the Positive Change Highway as a feedback and praise tool
  • Positive Change Highway (developing identity goals and small actions, problem solving ability)
  • Self-regulation (5 Faces, check-in, breathing, reframing, refocusing and self-talk)
  • Student self-reflection (Positive Change Highway) 
  • Wall of Awesome
Reboot provides the visuals and language to establish peer norms in the classroom of learning tenacity and ‘giving it a go’ with problem-solving. It also provides a framework to aid meta-cognition and generate useful self-talk.

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