'360' Newsletter Ramin Yazdanpanah, Ph.D. | September 7, 2023 |
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This easy-to-digest weekly newsletter presents a resource for students and teachers, a quote to inspire, and a question to ponder. It really is the little things we do consistently that lead to great outcomes. |
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Mistakes are opportunities, praise effort not performance, learning to make mistakes |
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Happy '360' Thursday! Here are this week's resources, quote, and question. |
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Mistakes are opportunities This very short and enlightening article "Mistakes are opportunities" explains three types of mistakes: slow-down opportunities, review opportunities, and feedback opportunities. Once you are aware of what kind of mistake you are making, you can apply strategies for transforming them into opportunities to grow your brain. To read the article, click here. |
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Tip for students Think about some of the mistakes, or "beautiful mistakes" as I call them, that you have made recently. Categorize them into slow-down opportunities, review opportunities, and feedback opportunities. Reflect on how you can learn from these mistakes the next time as opportunities to grow. |
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Praise effort not performance This podcast by Standford professor and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman "How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset" will be of interest to anyone who is learning anything or teaching anyone. If you are short on time, listen to the "5 Tools" he presents at the end of the video. I present them here with timestamps that will take you directly to his explanation in the video:
01:25:45 Tool 1: Student & Teacher Mindset
01:28:17 Tool 2: Effort Praise/Feedback: Verbs not Labels
01:31:24 Tool 3: Errors & Seeking Help
01:32:58 Tool 4: Self-Teaching & Growth Mindset
01:34:35 Tool 5: Reframe “Mind is Like a Muscle” Analogy
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Tip for teachers Discuss these research findings with your students, kids, friends, and coworkers, anyone that you engage in teaching and learning with. Ask yourself and others how you think about making mistakes, what it means to be at something, and how you measure success. Is it the product or the process? |
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"When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes." -Carol S. Dweck |
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What is something that you do, not only perform well, but also to create opportunities to learn from your mistakes? |
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Until next week, Dr. Yaz P.S. Go 'Noles! |
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