Lessons with Dad

Lessons with Dad

By Ruthie Egger and Dad, Jim EggerParentingKids & Family
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Lessons with Dad episodes

  • Mindset - Part 2, Implications of a Fixed Mindset
    We continue our discussion of Carol Dweck's book - Mindset.  
    If you have to work hard to learn something, does this mean you are not talented?  What do we think about the Icons in achievement - Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Elon Musk?  Are they geniuses that had tremendous success on their own with little effort?  We discuss the attributes of success and the Growth Mindset.
    We have seen that this applies to things like intelligence, but what about something like Art.  Some people are just gifted and have the ability to draw.  Let's see what the Growth mindset has to say...
    23 min
  • Mindset - Part 1, What is a Growth Mindset?
    An introduction to Carol Dweck's book: Mindset.
    FIXED MINDSET: Believing that your qualities are carved in stone. You have only a certain amount of intelligence, sports ability, artistic talent, business skill, a fixed personality type or a certain moral character.
    GROWTH MINDSET: Your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies and help from others. Your current skill level is just a starting point for development.
    18 min
  • Intelligence and How to Get It - Part 2, What Makes a Good Teacher/Tutor
    Intelligence and How to Get It by Richard Nisbett. Are we Smarter than our Grandparents?
    We discuss what makes good schools, teachers and tutors and give some ideas on how you can increase your intelligence.
    For more information on Cooperative Learning, check out Robert Slavin's book on these techniques.
    TUTORS
    A lot of teaching is in the form of 1-on-1 teaching from tutors. Mark Lepper did research on this and made some great discoveries:
    A surefire way to be a BAD tutor:
    -Consider yourself a debugger. Explicitly tell the student she has made a mistake and give direct guidance in how to fix the error. None of Lepper’s most effective tutors took such a strictly cognitive, error-correction stance.
    How do you become an effective tutor? Lepper gave us the 5 Cs.
    1.CONTROL
    a. Foster a sense of control in the student, making the student feel that she has command of the material and the capability to learn
    2.CHALLENGE
    a. Challenge the student, but at a level of difficulty that is within the student’s capability
    3.CONFIDENCE
    a. Express confidence in the student, assuring the student that the problem she just solved was a difficult one highlighting what the student got correct and not their failures…I will jump ahead to MINDSET and say that you should reward and recognize EFFORT and not failure or success. Effort and trying new things is critical to gaining confidence.
    4.CURIOSITY
    a. Foster curiosity by asking leading questions and by linking the problem to toher problems the student has seen that appear on the surface to be different.
    5.CONTEXTUALIZE
    a.Place the problem in a real-world context or in a context from a movie or TV show
    WARNING: Never dumb down the material for the sake of self esteem. Most of what expert tutors do is ask questions. They ask leading questions and then ask students to explain their reasoning. They are less likely to give positive feedback...don’t make the teaching about RIGHT AND WRONG. This is not an evaluation, but an exercise in learning and effort.
    27 min
  • Introduction - The Psychology of Excellence

    Introduction to the second series in our podcast.  See the Top 10 list we discussed below:

    10 Things that Require Zero Talent and No Money $$$

    -Being on Time

    -Work Ethic

    -Effort

    -Body Language

    -Energy

    -Attitude

    -Passion

    -Being Coachable

    -Doing Extra

    -Being Prepared


    27 min

About Lessons with Dad

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Join Ruthie and her dad on a journey of learning. We learn life lessons and important skills not taught in school. This is everything I want my children to know before they go off to college and into the world. Faith, Finances, Personal Safety, Relationships, Negotiating, Influencing Others, Communication, Work Ethic, etc.