Today my Year 13 class were really lucky as the HOD of PE at Tamaki College (Mr Brenton Moyes), came to talk to them about mindset and how he did Art and Graphics when he was at school.
They started off being really polite when we asked them if they thought the head of PE was good at drawing. They then relaxed and were more honest. They all answered "no!". He brought in his art boards from school and they were really impressed.
Brenton did a great presentation, talking about :-
- failure
- trying again
- practising
- improving
- trying new things
- being outside of your comfort area
They did a warm up exercise to start with where they had to draw a face by not taking their pencil off the page. They then did it again with less time and had to put more detail in. After comparing their first and second efforts, they had to choose which one they liked the best.
This was then linked to trying a new thing, not being sure, having another go - a growth mindset.
Brenton then described the process he went through for his art boards and how much trial and error he went through, getting things wrong, improving, trying again. This was linked through to a sports mindset of training and practicing.
I spoke to them afterwards about putting people into boxes when we see them. We all do it and it is normal but we have to be able to break the boxes when we find out more about people.
They are guilty of putting themselves into boxes which is stopping their progress.
The "I can't" mindset related to drawing is killing their creativity in some cases, and the need to be perfect in everything they do is killing it with others.
A great presentation from Brenton today and I will have to get him back to do more as a lot of the class was missing today.
Awesome work team! Great to see the collaboration and thinking outside of the box to engage and encourage our learners. Using a sports analogy will encourage a growth mindset as they are passionate about their HPE and sports in general. Does the last statement imply there could be a DVC/HPE integrated studies unit in the planning?
ReplyDeleteThanks Russel
ReplyDeleteMy students loved listening to Brenton today. Their faces were a picture when he opened up his art boards.
What a heart warming post Karen. Great to see the cross department support here. I am super impressed he still has those art boards!
ReplyDeleteA fabulous message for our young people
Thanks Dorothy. The students were really shocked when he told them he was no good at PE at school!. We had a really good talk about putting people into boxes afterwards.
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