Power of the Growth Mindset

How can you help your learner develop a growth mindset?

 

While reading the book Mindset by Dr. Dweck, I reflected on the type of mindset that exists mainly in me. Sometimes I act with a growth mindset but other times with a fixed mindset. Also, reflect on how students with a fixed mindset and sometimes with a growth mindset act. There are many factors to consider to develop a growth mindset in students. The first is to know and understand the growth mindset. Dr. Dweck says that we can develop the skills and get better every day with hard work even if we have failed to reach a specific goal. Another factor to consider is the teaching style of the teacher. According to my experience and what I read in these 16 weeks, I believe myself to be of the constructivist model because I consider that everything around us helps us to create and build our learning. When writing my learning manifesto, I had the perspective about learning that it is essential to know styles and theories to find different didactic resources to teach and learn.

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We cannot teach students to have a growth mindset, but we can model the growth mindset to children. As an educator, there are many moments where we can model a growth mindset, and one way is to praise the children where each student's effort is praised, and thus we do not hurt the students' feelings. By honoring the students' efforts, we can develop a growth mindset in the apprentices. Understand that learning is a process that requires effort, dedication, failures, and successes. We can develop abilities and skills during this path called "YET" to achieve or acquire learning or goal. We can teach students the power of " YET " during book reading to students, and through teacher-guided questions during circle time, we can teach students the power of "YET."

 

I believe that a growth mindset can help students accept feedback positively and change their attitude toward cheating in their actions and will make them reflect on making good decisions and reflect on the consequences in the short and long term. When children have certain attitudes such as cheating, it is because of their environment, and we cannot change it, but we can help them by modeling a growth mindset and the power of "YET." As an educator, I am committed to ensuring that all my students have access to an equitable education where they are treated with love and respect in an environment where COVA+CSLE exists to feel comfortable and thus have a happy learning experience.

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I believe that having a growth mindset can help students feel less stressed and have a positive attitude towards learning. Although the educational system continues to implement grades to measure knowledge and academic level, the educational system must have a reform where grades are just a number.

 

After reading Dr. Dweck's Growth Mindset book, I reflected that we could achieve everything through perseverance and effort and that each failure is a sign that we keep working. I can relate a growth mindset to passion and long-term determination and that everything requires effort and dedication.

 

I believe that when we acquire and develop a growth mindset, we can no longer stop thinking that way and consciously reflect because I adopted a growth mindset, which helped me have less stress. Everything requires small changes and starting to act with a growth mindset. It is a good start, and I know it is not enough, but with the perseverance and passion we put into changing every day, I can model it to the people close to me. As an educator, I can help my students reactivate the learner's mindset in many ways. First, modeling a growth mindset; second, reading books during circle time; and last, asking questions where the students reflect on their actions.