Promoting A Growth Mindset In Students

Promoting A Growth Mindset In Students. The growth mindset is something that many students and parents have heard about reacting to teaching in the classroom. The growth mindset is defined as understanding that our abilities and intelligence can be developed upon. This is the opposite of a fixed mindset where intelligence and knowledge is considered unchangeable. “I am bad at math” is a fixed mindset, while “I can strengthen my math skills through practice” is a growth mindset. Training students to have this growth mindset is a great way to improve their GPAs and persistence in school through the more challenging classes. Through development of a growth mindset all students can claim ownership and control over their own learning. This ownership has been known to lead to better performance on assessments. Teachers and parents can advocate a growth mindset in many ways.

Teachers and parents should have their students view failure as a good learning experience. This can take the form of stories about teachers or parents’ own failures in life and how they overcame and learned from them. This gives the student hope and a more positive outlook from the experience. Encourage the student to seek help when they need it and reward them when they do finally get the help they need. Ask students to write down the one or two things that they find most confusing about what they are learning. This sets the president that questions are encouraged and expected.

Tests can be stressful for students and a bad grade on an assessment can really hurt a student’s motivation. Teachers might offer smaller and lower stakes assignments like classwork or quizzes. It is critical that on these assessments the parents and teachers express to the students that confusion and getting things wrong are expected and the teacher is there to help them and walk them through it.

It is also important for parents to reflect on their own fixed mindsets about their students. This helps set a positive environment for growth and makes parents or teachers more able to help struggling students.

Parents who adopt their own growth mindset also use the practices that they are trying to teach the students to gain feedback about their own performance. This can take the form of asking students what they like or don’t about their learning environment and explaining to them that parents are trying to improve alongside their students.

By adopting the growth mindset, students are more flexible and willing to work on skills that will help them in the future.

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