In episode 89 I look at how I integrate Growth Mindset and Mindfulness into my Outreach Programme, I also look at some of the research behind the whole area of Growth Mindset and I have included this in the episode notes.
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Growth Mindset:
When working with children who have been placed in some of the most challenging situations it is therefore even more important for us as educators to give them some skills that they can use to help them deal or cope with their own circumstances. I took the view that if this type of intervention could benefit children within schools, then it could hopefully have a positive effect with those who firstly are struggling in formal education but who also come from deprived and difficult home circumstances and also those with social, emotional and behavioral difficulties.
We are all working continually by looking at and coping with everyday situations by approaching them from two distinct ‘mindsets’:
A “Fixed Mindset” assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can’t change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.
A “Growth Mindset,” on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligent but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities. Out of these two mindsets, which we manifest from a very early age, springs a great deal of our behavior, our relationship with success and failure in both professional and personal contexts, and ultimately our capacity for happiness.
So I have attempted to try and encourage my students to adopt a number of statements/affirmations that they will work on for a given week and then revisit the theme and look at another agreed affirmations, over time the student becomes more proficient at applying these to their own situations both inside and outside the classroom.
I have also linked this closely to a Mindfulness Programme so that by paying more attention to the present moment – to their own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around them – they can also improve your mental well-being and that this in turn will have a direct correlation to their own embracing of the Growth Mindset affirmations.
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