The power of students’ beliefs about themselves affects become their willingness to try even if a task is hard, even if their grades are not what they are expecting. A growth mindset is very closely related to self-esteem. A child with very little self-esteem will not perform as well as a child who believes he/she CAN and WILL. Children can develop a growth mindset at an early age, and it is our job to promote a growth mindset in the classroom as much as possible. If we miss the opportunity, they may not adopt this valuable characteristic.
3 Powerful Methods
Give opportunities to face obstacles.
You don’t want everything to come easily for the students. We need to provide them with only easy tasks and praising them or giving unwarranted rewards will be counter-intuitive to your goals. Learning a growth mindset requires facing challenges. gives them the practice they need to build a growth mindset of “This is going to be hard, but I will try and follow the steps I know to tackle it.
Students who believe they can develop their talents and abilities see the challenges and critical feedback as methods to gather the information they could use to help themselves learn.
Teach and model good attitudes.
Find some good quality growth mindset book is one of my favorite “ I can’t do that yet” to read aloud that express or show examples of a growth mindset. You can also model good attitudes by speaking aloud as you solve any problem. Use words that show you are persisting, confident, and capable, and teach the children why you are speaking to yourself in such ways. Encourage them to speak to themselves and Model a positive, encouraging attitude in all that you say, do, and believe. Optimism is contagious. Positive thinking tends to breed positive outcomes.
My students love this book.
Celebrate Successes and Minimize Failures.
If possible, reward children for their positive outlook and catch them in the act of showing a growth mindset. Listen attentively to conversations with them, and verbally praise them when you hear comments or see behaviors that show hard work, determination, following steps/procedures, or speaking affirmatively to themselves or to their peers. When mistakes occur, show them ways they can learn from the experience and tell them verbally, instead of just providing them with a grade. Also encourage the students to the “grades” are only numbers. the most important is to see what they need to improve in their learning.
Provide Opportunities to Celebrate the Success of Others.
Encourage students to share in the joy of another student’s achievement in an area. work rather than talent. Celebrate, Praise, and reward things other than intelligence or good grades. When providing feedback or praise publicly, try to avoid saying “ Miguel is so smart,” and instead say “Look at how well Miguel took my instructions and followed them to a T,” or “Congratulations to Miguel for putting forth such good effort into this task.”
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