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Growth Mindset


Many students think they are born either dumb or smart; this thinking has the greatest impact on a student’s mindset of learning. If students are able to approach new concepts or skill with a growth mindset of “I can do this with hard work”, then the chances of them succeeding or growing is much greater. I have seen students respond to a failure with frustration, shutdown, anger, sadness, and numbness. The idea of changing their responses from the beginning of something new sets them up for a less frustrated response. We have to instill in them that feedback is the greatest resource that is going to allow them opportunities to grow and be successful in the end. Students will learn to train their thinking and eventually their responses to feedback will change.

On my campus this school year the big continuous growth that we are adopting is Growth Mindset. The statement of YET symbolizes that we are still in progress to reach our goal. For example, we do not know how to solve that problem YET but we are still working hard to figure it out. Students are using this word to continue to work towards successful outcomes and not giving up the first, second or third time they try something new. If students have not failed at something then they have never tried anything new. Students will see new challenges as opportunities to learn, this will create the love of learning. As educators, we have to applaud their efforts, which will help them learn the skill of growing.


PLEASE USE THIS PREZI TO PRESENT GROWTH MINDSET
https://prezi.com/ueys7xqwcb-g/edit/#31_30863873  (My Plan to introduce into my classroom)

In my classroom, I have implemented growth mindset. Here are a few resources I used to introduce and continue to revisit.

Carol Dweck- Developing a growth mindset  

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