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?