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Fostering Children's Growth Mindset in the Early Years

Carol Dweck's groundbreaking work has long established that, when faced with a challenge, each of us can respond with either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset about our ability to deal with it. What is becoming increasingly clear is that, when children develop growth mindsets in their early years, they come to see struggle and challenge as opportunities for learning and development.

Fostering Children's Growth Mindset in the Early Years offers an insightful guide on how educators can foster growth mindsets in children from birth up to eight years of age. It centres on a set of nine design principles for positive change, along with practical strategies for integrating each one into your setting. This accessible approach, based in both research and practice, will support you to create a culture that inspires children to understand their mindsets, develop a love of learning and enhance both their achievement and their wellbeing.

Ages: 0-8 | Pages: 56 | Code: TS0336 | ISBN: 9781923193116

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Fiona Boylan

Dr Fiona Boylan is a lecturer and researcher in Early Childhood Studies in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. She has 25 years of experience teaching and leading in early childhood settings across the early years of school. Fiona’s research centres on developing children’s metacognitive skills to enhance their learning capabilities and agency toward learning. In particular, her PhD researched the implementation of Carol Dweck’s mindset theory to foster children’s growth mindsets in the early years context. Fiona has presented and published her research nationally and internationally as she seeks to support educators to foster a growth mindset culture in early learning centres, classrooms, and schools. She shares the power of having a growth mindset and of neuroscience wherever she goes and is learning all the time as a mum, educator, author, speaker, and leader. Her wish is for children to embrace challenges as opportunities, setbacks as lessons, and effort as the path to mastery.

Contents

Introduction4
About this book5
Putting the principles into practice7
Leading change8
1. Overview of mindset theory9
Two kinds of mindset9
Misconceptions about the growth mindset12
The mindset continuum13
Reasons for fostering a growth mindset in the early years15
Mindsets and positive education17
2. Mindsets, metacognition and executive function in the early years18
Metacognition and mindset18
Executive function and mindset19
3. Overview of the design principles to foster children's growth mindset21
What are the design principles?21
The role of educators22
What a growth mindset educator looks like23
4. The 'why' and 'how' of the design principles24
Principle 1: Educators develop knowledge of their own mindset and model effective learning using a growth mindset
Principle 2: Educators incorporate and model a common language to teach children about mindsets27
Principle 3: Educators help children to set goals and reflect on their learning28
Principle 4: Educators encourage persistence and focused effort, and normalise making mistakes in a safe and supportive learning environment31
Principle 5: Educators provide feedback on effort rather than on talent or ability37
Principle 6: Educators teach children how brains work when learning39
Principle 7: Educators hold high expectations and believe all children can learn and grow43
Principle 8: Educators provide children with strategies for struggle as they work towards achieving a goal45
Principle 9: Educators share mindset practices with parents, carers and the community48
5. Links to curriculum documents and professional standards50
Australia50
New Zealand54
Bibliography55
Further reading and resources56

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