Growth Mindset – TeachThought

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.

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.