Tag: Growth Mindset

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…

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…

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

Psychology-based strategies that help students learn include modeling, student choice, and a clear sense of progress in the learning process.

“Ohhh, I get it.” The iconic phrase that teachers value hearing. A sign you’ve moved a student. Something you want to hear…