1. Helping Children Learn
www.jamesnottingham.co.uk

2.

3. Scottish National Football Team

4. Praise that can do more harm than good
Clever girl!
Gifted musician
Brilliant mathematician
Bright boy
Top of the class!
By far the best

5. Carol Dweck
www.carol-dweck.co.uk

6. The effects of different types of praise
Mueller and Dweck, 1998
In six studies, 7th grade students were given a series of nonverbal IQ tests.

7. Mueller and Dweck, 1998
Intelligence praise
Wow, thats a really good score. You must be smart at this.
Process praise
Wow, thats a really good score. You must have tried really hard.
Control-group praise
Wow, thats a really good score.

8. Number of problems solved on a 3rd test

9. Boys get 8 times more criticism than girls

10. The effects of praise
Swimming
You do your best swimming when you concentrate and try your best to do what Chris is asking you to do
Ballet
What a brilliant ballerina you are!
A new Dawn (Fraser) ?

11. Number of children who lied about their score

12. John Hatties Visible Learning (2009)

13. We praise children when they get 10 out of 10
10/10

14. Praise can make children afraid to try
Our praise often teaches children that easy success means they are intelligent and, by implication, that errors and effort mean they are not.
Prof Carol Dweck, Mindset

15. Comparing test scores
92
85
73
64
43
32
90
86
78
70
41
35
90
85
84
78
40
34

16. By the time they start school
Some children start school knowing 6,000 words.
Others, just 500 words.
Source: BBC 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8013859.stm

17. 500 words at age 5
Exam Pass Rates in UK
6000 words at age 5
100%
97%
73%
75%
50%
21%
0%
National Tests for 16 year olds
National Tests for 11 year olds

18. Does Australia do any better?

19. The Learning Challenge
Concept
Conflict
Clarity
1
2
Confusion
The Pit
107

20. A selection of thinking skills
GROUP
HYPOTHESISE
IDENTIFY
INFER
INTERPRET
ORGANISE
PARAPHRASE
PREDICT
QUESTION
RANK
REPRESENT
RESPOND
SEQUENCE
SIMPLIFY
SHOW HOW
SOLVE
SORT
SUMMARISE
SUPPORT
TEST
VERIFY
VISUALISE
ANALYSE
ANTICIPATE
APPLY
CAUSAL-LINK
CHOOSE
CLASSIFY
COMPARE
CONNECT
CONTRAST
DECIDE
DEFINE
DESCRIBE
DETERMINE
DISCUSS
ELABORATE
ESTIMATE
EVALUATE
EXEMPLIFY
EXPLORE
GENERALISE
GIVE EXAMPLES
GIVE REASONS
76

21. Eureka moments come from challenge
Eureka!
Concept
Conflict
Construct
Clarity
1
Confusion
3
2
The Pit
116

22. Contact Details
www.jamesnottingham.co.uk