Lesson 8: Building learning power
Growth and Fixed MindSets
- Professor Carol Dweck, ‘Mindset: a New Psychology of Success’, (2006)
- Professor Guy Claxton, ‘Wise Up’ (1999) and 'BLP' initiative
- Interested in ‘Metacognition’, how people think about thinking, identity and intelligence
- 'How do you know what to do when you don’t know what to do?’ Piaget
- The existing mindsets learners use to respond to feedback can dramatically alter the learning outcomes intended....
- Consider: any students fall into these categories, you?
What is BLP? |
- Interdisciplinary approach to creating an integrated system of developing learners 'learning power'
- Challenges the notion of 'Fixed Intelligence'
- Draws on 'mindset' approaches, flow and positive psychology and other 'Learning Sciences'
Core beliefs
Building learning power is based on three fundamental beliefs
This challenge is nowhere near being met yet. We need to go beyond the wish lists of ‘wider skills’ or ‘key competencies’. What is needed has to be seen as a gradual, sometimes challenging but hugely worthwhile process of culture change by schools and habit change by teachers.
http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/what_it_is.html (2014)
Building learning power is based on three fundamental beliefs
- BLP believes that the core purpose of education is to prepare young people for life after school; helping them to build up the mental, emotional, social and strategic resources to enjoy challenge and cope well with uncertainty and complexity
- BLP believes that this purpose for education is valuable for all young people and involves helping them to discover the things that they would really love to be great at, and strengthening their will and skill to pursue them.
- This confidence, capability and passion can be developed since real-world intelligence is something that people can be helped to build up.
This challenge is nowhere near being met yet. We need to go beyond the wish lists of ‘wider skills’ or ‘key competencies’. What is needed has to be seen as a gradual, sometimes challenging but hugely worthwhile process of culture change by schools and habit change by teachers.
http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/what_it_is.html (2014)
- How could you instill these qualities in your learners?
- Which problems might you encounter as a teacher implementing this?
Framework 2: Applying it in the classroom
- How could you embed these qualities in your teaching and the environment in which you teach?