Lesson 3: What is a mindset?

What skills, characteristics, and strategies are essential for becoming a successful entrepreneur, and how can these be developed and applied in the real-world?

mindset, fixed mindset, growth mindset, entrepreneurial mindset

HS.CTE.1D - 1D. Communicate effectively using course content.

Evidence-based reading and writing sections that require analyzing arguments and identifying logical flaws.

Purpose: to have the students assess their characteristics as it pertains to the question: Are you right for entrepreneurship?

DOK 1:
What is the difference between a fixed and growth mindset?
DOK 2:
Compare and contrast traits of both mindsets
DOK 3:.
Investigate how having a growth mindset can impact an individual’s success as an entrepreneur
DOK 4
Complete a research project that analyzes the role of failure in developing an entrepreneurship mindset.

Students apply personal assessment data to make a decision and look at what type of future they want to work towards

Mindsets cannot be changed.

Modeling, one on one instruction, Google classroom or Moodle. Online instructional tools, videos, real world application of information, textbook, online or paper assignments, Spanish version available for ELL students

Guided notes, questionnaire on mindsets, analysis of questionnaires, mindset activity

Entrepreneurship, 6th edition, online/paper edition. class notes, Carol Dweck’s Growth vs. Fixed Mindset Assessment, entrepreneurial mindset question, mindset activity