Growth Mindset Archives

How Games Naturally Promote A Growth Mindset

In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.

Athletes will rarely think, “I simply cannot make this shot.” Students–for whatever reason–are more likely to say, “I’m not good at tests.”

Help students develop a growth mindset with these sentence stems, categorized by collaboration, creativity, and other SEL pillars.

Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.

Teaching / January 20, 2021 / Growth Mindset

Help students understand that ‘help’ is the norm in the creative, scientific, and professional world. Asking for help is OK and necessary.

There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.

This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.

From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.

How can you help your students develop a growth mindset? Ask them to add ‘yet’ to the end of their ‘I can’t do this’ statements.

My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.

I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.

By using uniform standards and assessment forms, our education system often punishes errors, rather than rewarding risk-taking.