MIndsetsResources


 * Additional resources for //Multiple Intelligences//, //Mindsets,// //Using Mistakes for Learning// **

Assumptions about intelligence are one or the other:
// This is // untrue //. //
 * Many teachers assume intelligence is a fixed entity and no amount of tutoring or schooling changes that.**

// This is // true.
 * Teachers', tutors' coaches' instructional power to help all students achieve resides in what they say to convey confidence in students' abilities to learn and belief that students' efforts in and out of class **** develop skills. **

===Carol Dweck: The Effect of Praise on Mindsets===

In a video of Carol Dweck and researchers with 5th graders, testers deliberately praise students using one of two different types of statements:
 * Affirming **innate ability**: "You are smart" or "Good job"
 * Affirming **hard work and effort**: "You tried really hard" or not speaking at all, only smiling.

What did 5th graders **who had received praise for being innately smart** choose to do when offered harder puzzles to solve? They **DECLINED** !

What did 5th graders **who had received praise for applying effort and trying** choose to do when offered harder puzzles to solve? They **ACCEPTED** !


 * Multiple Intelligences **

Multiple Intelligences Bar Graph Survey Take the survey to learn your personal learning style.

Image of Multiple Intelligences

An Educator's Journey Toward Multiple Intelligences Scott Seider, who worked with Howard Gardner, describes how he understands multiple intelligence teaching now, and its power for learning.

The Power of the Pentatonic Scale Bobby McFerrin teaches the pentatonic scale to scientists.

Pentatonic Songs We Sing Beth's Notes blog lists well known songs.

Meet the Elements - They Might Be Giants. See and hear how music and video illustrate the periodic table.


 * Mindsets **

__Google's Doodle for the 2016 Paralympic games__

Praise not just effort but work toward an outcome Praise in ways that produce growth and also in ways that celebrate accomplishments.

The Growth Mindset Playbook--Train Ugly

TED-ED Growth Mindset Lesson Plan & Resources

Derek Coleman Seattle Seahawks - The Sound of Silence Told he could not, would not, would never, the growth mindset of overcoming all odds is Derek Coleman's means to achieving his goals.

Malcolm Mitchell and The Book Club A student/a teacher & coach/a mother, all together they create a winning team.

Capping a full life with a diploma How old is too old to earn a diploma? Does determination every stop?

Picture Books and Ideas to Explain Different Mindsets, Growth and Fixed "//These books help us to make the point that, much more than ability, productive effort and practice influence how well a person can do something, not ability."//

TED Radio Hour: Amateur Hour How do we learn to do something we know nothing about or have never done? Five people tell us their stories.

TED Radio Hour: Courage What happens when others say, "you're wrong", but the person does not quit or give up the effort?

Black: My journey to yo-yo mastery Yo Yo Master, Black, describes his journey from not knowing anything about yoyo to the world known performer of yo-yo that he is today.

__ Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor __ In this audio interview, Justice Sotomayor describes how she changed her life beginning in 5th grade by asking a classmate to teach her how to learn in order to earn gold stars.

2012 Teacher of the Year on What Helps Teachers and Students Succeed Rebecca Mieliwocki, middle school teacher, describes how she demonstrates that she does not have all the answers but that students can help each reach his or her individual potential by the direction that she sets for the learning.


 * //Dr. Carol Dweck, Stanford University researcher and author of MindSet: The New Psychology of Success //**
 * //(New York: Random House, 2006//**

Carol Dweck's Attitude

Even Geniuses Work Hard Carol Dweck explains the power of growth mindsets and how even geniuses value challenge and effort.

You Can Learn Anything John Legend, American singer, songwriter and actor describes how failure motivated his success.

Writer's Almanac Learners all: Nobel prize winner, Ernest Rutherford, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, ruler and richest woman in the world, R. Crumb, cartoonist and record collector, Brushoff DeLaurent, creator of Babar the Elephant! Read the poem!

50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Written by Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe, describes people whose growth mindsets propelled their work.

Practice Makes Possible: What We Learn By Studying Amazing Kids


 * Don't Prevent Student Mistakes: Prepare For Them **

Mistakes Grow Your Brain - Jo Boaler, Stanford Professor of Mathematics, explains what happens to brains when mistakes are made, whether or not the mistake is corrected.

How A Mistake Led to the Invention of Post-It Notes

Liquid Paper, or White-Out

[|Play-Doh: a creative toy?]

15 Life Changing Inventions Created by Mistakes

Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Has 19th-Century Roots

No Deficit Model: Assuring Students of Learning Success

Don't Prevent Student Mistakes: Education Week Teacher

[|Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes,] //Edutopia//, March 20, 2014

Science Bob, not Mr. Pflugfelder Making mistakes is why science is about questions not answers.

Ancestors Talk Through Drums A 5th grader expects to make mistakes as he learns something he wants to do--play the African drums.



Mistakes Used As Devices for Revising One's Thinking Allison B. Hintz analyzes class discussions as a power for revising one's thinking mathematically.

That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It: Burkins and Yaris Burkins and Yaris explain that celebrating mistakes and changing child perceptions of 'mistakes are bad' will change the child's learning process to revise their own thinking.

College and Career Readiness: What Else Matters? Burkins and Yaris explore what failure or lack of achievement provides each of us when reflected on and valued.

The Resilience Project: Stanford University What is failure good for? So much! Videos of big thinkers who have failed.

Steve Jobs and Calligraphy Course Steve Jobs addresses Stanford's graduating class, 2005, as a non college grad who used college to pursue learning. View the transcript here.

Small Words: UpGoer Simplifies Words If you can explain an idea, concept, procedure in simple, simple terms, the audience has a chance at understanding. But can you do this?

Sir Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity (0:00 - 6:20) Sir Ken Robinson describes why we need creative thinkers and how trying not to make mistakes negates our ability to be creative.

How an Unconventional Principal Turned Around A Struggling Urban School Do things differently or unexpectedly and see the results.

F.A.T. CITY Visual Perception from SchoolTube 0:00-0:40
 * Class Opener**

A Walk Back In Time

 * Galaxy Song by Eric Idle **
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44DlSj6bnn4**
 * song lyrics for Galaxy Song**

**Back in Time iPad App trailer** @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLAsyG1U1U




 * Boston's John Hancock Tower**

History of the Earth in 24-hour clock

Deeptime Clock

Earth's Evolution