Strategies to help develop or correct Ned’s view

1        Improving Time management skills

A strategy to develop or correct Ned’s view could be identifying that he’s only been training for a relatively short period of time (3 months), so he might need to realise that such a short period of time doesn’t constitute major physical results. He never considers that devoting more time to his weight lifting may have been beneficial. So improving his self-efficacy would help him begin to think of strategies he can use to save time. This would help him realise that devoting more time to his training would help him see better results. The extra time he devotes to his weight training may lead to increased muscle mass and therefore change his mindset.

Students writing up timetables and discussing time management skills with the teacher will help increase self-efficacy. So if a student’s struggling in a certain area, you can discuss ways of how they can devote more time towards task and encourage them to actually enjoy the activity. So they want to spend time improving. If students improve self-efficacy they are more likely come up with strategies they can use to improve ability; therefor creating an incremental mindsets.   

2        Working with a partner    

He might need to develop a different routine or workout with a partner, who also does the same workout. By doing this he can compare results with his partner. If his partner showed positive results, this would encourage him that people are able to change their physical build therefore taking more of an incremental view towards his training. Working out with a partner would also help increases motivation and intensity, as the partner would be able to offer encouragement and feedback. Again looking at the concept map if Ned can see that ability is not fixed he’s more likely to continue to work harder at his weights training and achieve positive results.  

In the case of physical education teaching this strategy could be used in students who also believe that they are not able to change their ability. So having partner activities where students can partner up and monitor each other’s progress, will be a way that we can help create malleable mindsets in the future. The belief that ability can be changed will lead to change in behaviour and therefore lead to results.