Growth Mindset CANVAS

What are your intentions about learning?
Is
your objective to:
Deepen knowledge & understanding of specific topics
Identify reliable facts & data
Consider new or broader perspectives
Challenge your viewpoints and dispel misperceptions
Practice and improve your ability to think critically
Evoke your curiosity and raise questions
Use your newfound knowledge to influence yourself and others
How should we direct our learning? Lets

focus on:
Objective research; not personal opinion
Verifiable facts from solid, settled research and respected experts
Double-check claims with reliable, credible evidence
Feelings and personal experiences are compelling but not always reliable
The learning process requires work & may not be comfortable or easy
Hold each other accountable for thoughtful reasoning, sensible ideas, and quality
work
FIXED VS GROWTH MINDSET
Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2007)
Psychologist Carol Dweck examines how attitude, motivation, and perspective strongly impact
every aspect of live, including your approach to education, relationships, parenting, and work.
Mindsets are beliefs about yourself – beliefs about your intelligence, abilities, talents, and
personality. Mindsets significantly influence how you approach learning, how you address
challenges, how you work, and how you cope with set-backs. These beliefs can both propel and
prevent your success as a student, friend, colleague, family member or sweetheart.
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What are your messages?
o What messages do you hear (from yourself or others)
about your own ability to improve your intelligence?
oAcademic behaviors – completing assignments,
coming to class prepared, participating in discussions,
studying for exams
oAcademic perseverance – maintaining productive
academic behaviors over time; persisting at academic
tasks, seeing a big project through completion,
buckling down when the work gets harder
oAcademic mindsets – attitudes & self-perceptions
o I belong is this academic community
o My abilities & competence grow with my effort
o This work has relevance & value to me
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Determined at birth
INTELIGEN Outcome of hard work
Can improve through practice
Talent alone creates success CE & Learning is gratifying &
Stick to what I know
SKILLS exhilarating
Give up easily
Avoid difficulty & discomfort
CHALLENG Opportunity to grow
Persevere through difficulty
Might reveal inadequacy ES Chance to prove oneself
Things should come easy

Exertion builds strength
Suspicious about the worth of
effort EFFORT Persistence is path to mastery
Inspired by effort of others
Why work so hard?
Feels threatened, defensive

Views as personal attack
FEEDBACK/ Useful & welcome
Essential for learning
I am fragile CRITICISM Identifies areas to improve
Easily discouraged Continue to persist

Sees failures as fruitless SETBACKS Opportunities to learn
Blame others or circumstances Make adjustments, seek help
INTENTIONAL STRUGGLING
STUDENTS STUDENTS
1. I practice personal responsibility and am the primary 1. I am a helpless, what happens to me is determined by
agent of my experiences and outcomes. fate, bad luck, toxic people and family troubles.
2. I access resources and supportive relationships by 2. I avoid accessing beneficial resources or seeking helpful
seeking help through campus resources, such as Canvas assistance or feedback from others (especially Librarians,
tutorials, Learning Assistance Center, tutoring, Library they might steal my soul).
workshops, the Writing Center, counseling, etc.).
3. In order to achieve positive grades on course 3. I struggle maintaining motivation; feel discouraged,
assignments and exams, I actively participate in class, read frustrated, overwhelmed and wait until the last minute to
the textbook, study key terms and concepts, manage time, complete assignments or study for exams. (Why should I
enroll in ENGL 1A, access campus resources, etc. exert effort when I when could be watching TikTok?)
4. When I encounter a challenging assignment, I eagerly 4. I resist improving my skills and abilities, especially
embrace opportunities to learn; I thoroughly read the anything that requires substantial effort or time. I prefer
assignment guidelines and course textbook; I carefully self-sabotaging habits and instant gratification (which I
follow assignment completion steps established by the find on TikTok).
professor; I schedule adequate time to read, critically think,
and thoroughly complete the assignment.
5. When I face setbacks, I consciously regulate my attitude, 5. I live at the mercy of overwhelming emotions such as
behavior, thoughts and emotions by … anxiety, anger, cynicism, depression, defensiveness,
dissatisfaction, fear, inadequacy and passivity.
6. I demonstrate my intelligence and competence through 6. I feel powerless, inadequate, evade hard work and am
daily persistence, perseverance, and hard work. doomed to repeated patterns of mediocracy and failure.
Read through each page of this
mini-lecture & count each time
you encounter the word:
WORK

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What are your intentions about learning?

How should we direct our learning? Lets

Things should come easy

Feels threatened, defensive

Easily discouraged Continue to persist

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