How can we encourage children to attribute their effort to their

success?

• Whole class

• Reluctant writers/RAP – all boys

Identified Groups

Areas of interest:• Self-reflection• Recognising success• Identifying how feedback affects success

• Types of feedback• Quality of work• Building self esteem

• Using research evidence of Dylan William – Providing feedback that moves learners forward

Introducing the wider concept:

• Explicit use of ‘mindset’ language used by all adults during discussion/marking

• Displays to promote positive mindset

• Self evaluation prompts

• Change of class dynamics – more time spent with pupils on feedback

How did practice change?

Collecting evidence

• Questionnaires

• Work sampling

• Sliding scale continuumFindings:

• Children gave up easily

• Fixed mindsets

• Didn’t take note of written comments

• Only looked when they knew they had worked hard on a

piece of writing

Measuring impact

The effect of different types of feedback on:

• Future learning• Self esteem• Effort• Chance taking• Self reflection• Improved understanding• Independence

What happened?

The preferred method of feedback was verbal feedback because:

• It was personalised• It was instantaneous • Showed what was going right and wrong• Could be acted upon immediately to make

improvements • Effort = success = improved self esteem• Reward for improved risk taking

Sharing Success!

What the children said…

Closed, because when the challenges are laid out I would always go for the

easy challenge but now I don’t.

How would you describe your mindset before we started our enquiry?

Closed because if questions were too

hard I would just give up and say it to

another person ‘Help me this is way too

hard’.

My mindset was probably closed.

If you give it a go it doesn’t matter

if you get it wrong.

What have you learnt from the mindset enquiry?

You should always have a go at doing

something. You can’t just look at

your task then say I can’t do it.

I used to go for the middle challenges but now I go for the harder ones.

How would you describe your mindset now?

Open-ish because I try and try and

try again.

My mindset is open now and if I can’t do something at first I will understand it

eventually.

You don’t give up. You say ‘I can’t do

it yet’.

What has the enquiry taught you about effort and learning? It’s taught me to keep

on working on it and putting in as much

effort as I can even if the questions go

wrong.

To never give up even if something is really

hard.

If it’s hard you are learning and it isn’t all about getting them

right. It’s mainly about your effort.

• Growth mindset culture is fully embedded

• Continue to apply verbal feedback wherever

possible

• Promote ethos of ‘critical friend’

http://discoveryden.wordpress.com/mindset-enquiry/

Where are we now?