Parents
How could a parent's expectations affect their child's mindset?
- Can cause stress on studies that can result in negative thinking about failure and one's self-worth.
- Encouragement of staying at the "smart level" because making mistakes and getting things wrong are considered direct to one's self-worth and not learning opportunities.
How does a coach's expectations affect the mindsets of their students?
When a skill or game doesn’t come easily to a player and requires effort, it shows they aren’t ready or talented enough to play well.
When every mistake or learning opportunity causes a negative reaction from coaches, players then can learn to have a similar reaction both on and off the playing field.
How does a teacher's expectations affect the mindset of their students?
They can separate students into groups of ones that can easily learn and ones that have more difficulty which makes the ones that take longer to learn discouraged and they have less chances to grow and learn.
If they have a negative approach to mistakes and failures it can affect how motivated children can feel about learning and growing.
Lowering expectations does not improve the self-esteem of students.
What is the false growth mindset?
It is a misinterpretation of the growth mindset
How can a comparison of success between children affect the growth mindset?
- Comparison between students can decrease their motivation and self-worth.
- Expectations and process of learning is different for everyone and comparing two children can make one seem better than the other which can negatively impact self-worth.
How do they send messages of success that help their students grow?
Coaches can have different and more growth-oriented reactions by encouraging more practice or one-on-one help to improve something they need to work on.
They can also work on praising effort instead of labeling the people who can easily play as talented and the rest of the players as unequal and less talented. (this emphasizes that you have to be naturally talented and can’t learn and grow into a skilled player)
How could/do they send messages of success that positively affect a student's mindset?
They can praise the effort that they put into work in classes instead of their direct intelligence which can directly connect their worth to their achievements or failures.
Push students to test and challenge themselves so they learn to grow and learn from their mistakes.
What outside aspects of a person's life could trigger a false growth mindset?
-Emotions such as embarrassment, frustration, and nervousness could trigger a false mindset
-Things like pressure and high expectations can also cause this
How does basing a child's worth on their success negatively affect their mindset?
They think that any kind of failure or mistake directly translates to the kind of person they are and what they are capable of.
They are always trying to reach expectations and not focusing on living life to the fullest.
When they make mistakes or “fail” that has a huge impact on everything in their life and even the things that seemed to be good are then somehow connected to that failure.
Why is it important to motivate the students to work hard?
Because with hard work there are so many more chances and opportunities to grow both on and off the court.
By encouraging them to work hard coaches can spread the idea that they can work and improve themselves in any aspect of their games and life in general.
Can teachers pass on their mindsets to students?
Yes, They can through their teaching methods and encouragements.
(this is more open to opinion)
Why do people pretend to have a growth mindset?
-People pretend to have a fixed mindset as a way of proving themselves
-They can also do it to receive others admiration
How does praising the intelligence instead of the effort or the outcome instead of the process affect the mindset?
This connects any mistake or failure to a person’s worth - they become no better than their mistakes (in their own head)
They think that if they easily did something (an example would be calling someone so smart for getting a high score) without much effort, the next time they need effort it would mean they aren’t as smart/brilliant/successful anymore.
How should a student feel or not feel during a game?
-Students should not fear judgment from the coach or peers and should feel confident in their moves during the game.
How does unequal treatment like favoring other students affect their mindsets?
When favoring students that seem to catch on to everything and are wired to learn naturally, the students that need a little more attention and time to get to those same levels can feel left out and discouraged which can affect their passion and want to learn.
How does praising intelligence over effort affect your interpretation growth mindset?
-It encourages the idea that success is a result of how naturally talented you are, and is not something that can be achieved. This can later send a message that the growth mindset is only about putting in tons of effort.
What can be done differently to help children improve?
- Effort put into achieving something can be praised rather than the person themselves. (attaches achievements to the description/worth of person)
- Can connect hard work ethic to the reason someone is so successful, (or smart, brilliant, etc.) rather than all the accomplishments being directly equal to the person.
What can be done differently to help the students improve?
When motivating the students they tend to have a more positive reaction to mistakes and can learn to choose to grow and practice more in order to improve themselves both as players and people in general.
Not connect every mistake or failure that has to do with the team directly to themselves because they tend to have much more negative reactions, become short-sided, and have tempers when problems or mistakes evolve.
What can be done differently to help students improve?
Discussion question that is open to opinions
How can you achieve a true growth mindset instead of a false one?
- The process is not quick or easy, however, to achieve this mindset the first step would be to accept that you have a part of it in you. Then you need to figure out what triggers your fixed mindset, and then work on removing that.