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– Growth Mindset Post-Mortem

Growth Mindset Incomplete Project Post-Mortem

Can we make a flowchart for students who need to process the fact that they cannot finish their project, or finish it in time, or don’t want to finish it.

Or would a nested outline work better?

1. I/we will not finish in time

1. This is due to “naive planning”

1. Reflection - How could you plan differently next time so that this is less likely to happen for future projects?

2. This is due to unforeseen problems

1. Did you conduct a pre-mortem?
2. Did you fill in the possible difficulties section of the proposal?

3. This is due to lack of focus or effort
4. This is due to …

2. A failure has ended my/our project
3. I/we do not want to continue our project

1. Bored

1. Selected too easy of a challenge
2. Did not think through all the steps and the time required for each
3. Selected a project based on a partner’s interest, not your own

2. Too hard

1. Can’t find help (web page, video, person)

3. Too long
4. Can’t/Won’t because ...

How did you arrive at this point? How have you shown grit? How have you shown that you have learned/grown from this experience? How have you left information for future students interested in this project to learn from your …?

Questions

• How do we know when to let students stop/quit/move on? How do we teach students to know when to quit vs persevere?

• The Upside of Quitting (not appropriate for student listening)

• Are there existing Reflection Prompts they could choose from?
• Add

Related Resources

• FAILure Rubric
• Reflection Prompts

Sophie - Giving up when he/she thinks their product cannot be perfect (or as good as they imagined)?

1. Why? Diagnose your problem/reason/difficulty?
2. Yes you can change - Not if they have been through elevator pitch and/or proposal