Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Category: Growth Mindsets
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The Challenge Toolkit – Free Resource
Stretch and Challenge Every Learner in Your Classroom, Including the More-Able Viewed and Downloaded 240,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Easily increase the level of challenge for groups,…
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What does growth mindset questioning look like and can you give me 175 exemplar growth mindset questions I can use in my own classroom?
It looks like this, and yes I can! Here are 175 questions, all designed to help you promote growth mindsets. There are seven sections: Each is based on a different…
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All the oven-ready tools you need to support parents at your school and get them onboard with growth mindsets
Exemplar Questions Once you have started communicating with parents about growth mindsets, the next step is to give parents growth mindsets parenting tools they can use at home with their…
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Nine growth mindset language strategies you can use to subtly alter how you communicate with parents
Changes to Reporting Reports are one of the main ways schools interact with parents. Changing the make-up of your reports gives you another way to communicate growth mindset ideas. Here…
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What are the best ways to help parents at your school understand growth mindsets?
If learners are hearing the same growth mindset messages at home as they are hearing at school, then there is a higher likelihood they will internalise those messages. Engaging parents…
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How can you encourage your learners to think critically about the strategies they use in their learning? (including 25 ready-made questions for you to try)
Process Questions Process questions are exactly what they say they are. Questions that get learners thinking about the processes of learning. Here are twenty-five examples: And here are five ways…
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Three of the simplest, yet most effective, strategies you can use to get learners thinking about the process of learning
Modelling, Suggesting, Prompting and Clueing We can help learners to think about and refine the processes they use during any lesson. Four good ways to do this are modelling, suggesting,…
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Process, process, process. The unseen focus of growth mindset thinking.
Imagine someone is baking a cake. After a couple of hours, an end product appears. It sits on a plate, resting on the worktop. Smooth, white icing covers two layers…
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Stingrays, uncertainty and Bloom’s Taxonomy: three ways to shift mindsets that will change how you think about challenge
Stingray Questions In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates walked around the city streets of Athens posing difficult questions to the people he met. His aim was to press them on…
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Put the power to shape learners’ mindsets in your hands by establishing a language of challenge in your classroom
Establishing a language of challenge in your classroom means finding ways to communicate to learners that challenge is good, that it is to be expected, and that it is to…