25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset
Help students develop a growth mindset with these sentence stems, categorized by collaboration, creativity, and other SEL pillars.
Growth Mindset
A collection of growth mindset resources, ideas, and strategies for K-12 teachers and students.
5 Strategies For Creating A Genius Mindset In Students
Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.
8 Strategies For Helping Students Learn To Ask For Help
Help students understand that ‘help’ is the norm in the creative, scientific, and professional world. Asking for help is OK and necessary.
9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
10 Ways To Honor Mistakes In The Learning Process
From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.
How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset
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.
From Static To Constructionist Learning
My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.
I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students
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.
Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
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.
10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
By using uniform standards and assessment forms, our education system often punishes errors, rather than rewarding risk-taking.
5 Psychology-Based Strategies That Help Students Learn
Psychology-based strategies that help students learn include modeling, student choice, and a clear sense of progress in the learning process.
16 Things I Want To Hear My Students Say
“Ohhh, I get it.” The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign you’ve moved a student. Something you want to hear your students say.