GATE Parent Meeting & Book Club
Happy New Year!
Please join us for the upcoming GATE Parent Site Representative Meeting and book club. Our Book Club 2016-17 Selection is “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol Dweck. Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success.
We will meet at IUSD’s Learning Center, Room 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 18th. This meeting is intended for adult attendance only. Childcare will not be available. Please refer to location address and directions below.
Book Club Discussions will be held during the first hour of the meeting. The last 30 minutes will be reserved for general parent site representative discussion topics.
I look forward to seeing you.
Chapters 3-4 Discussion Questions
- Did you always assume that success came right from innate talent or ability? Discuss people you know who are brilliant or talented but never went anywhere. And people who are not so brilliant or talented, but are highly successful. How did they do it?
- Were you labeled a gifted or smart child? Did it help you or hurt you?
- Was there a difficult transition in your life where you fell into a fixed mindset and lost confidence in your abilities? Describe it.
- How can we help our children when they are stuck, struggling, or not feeling "smart?" How can we teach grit?
Meeting 2 Challenge: Change the way you praise!
This month intentionally choose the words you use to give people feedback by praising the process, not the person. Verbally praise others for skills that don’t sound predetermined: hard work, persistence, rising to a challenge, learning from a mistake, etc. Avoid praising children for being “smart”, “brilliant” or “gifted”.
Avoid Person-Praise. Focus on Process-Praise!
- · “Great job! You must be smart at this.”
- · “Great job! You must have worked really hard.”
- · “See, you are good at English. You got an A on your last test.”
- · “You really studied for your English test and your improvement shows it.”
- · “You got it! I told you that you were smart.”
- · “I like the way you tried all kinds of strategies on that math problem until you finally got it.”
Visit www.mindsetkit.org for more information.
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