Fostering Growth Mindset

Eight Tips for Promoting a Growth Mindset in Kids:

1. Help to understand that the brain works like a muscle: it can only grow through hard work, determination, and lots and lots of practice.

2. Don’t focus on smartness, gifted, or talented areas, since this implies that born with the knowledge and does not encourage effort and growth.

3. Recognize incidents when demonstrate a growth mindset.

4. Praise the process. It’s effort, hard work, and practice that allow one to achieve their true potential.

5. Don’t praise the results. Test scores and rigid ways of measuring learning and knowledge limit the growth that would otherwise be tapped.

6. Embrace failures and missteps. Sometimes one learn the most when they fail. Let know that mistakes are a big part of the learning process. There is nothing like the feeling of struggling through a very difficult problem, only to finally break through and solve it! The harder the problem, the more satisfying it is to find the solution.

7. Encourage participation and collaborative group learning. one learn best when they are immersed in a topic and allowed to discuss and advance with their peers.

8. Encourage competency-based learning. Get excited about subject matter by explaining why it is important and how it will help in the future. The goal should never be to get the "correct" answer, but to understand the topic at a fundamental, deep level, and want to learn more.

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