Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff | Edutopia - 0 views
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jenniferweening on 22 Jan 16- how many of us need to be reminded of this as well?! - we say that it's important for the kids to fail and try again, but how often are we willing to do the same in our teaching?
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Fixed mindset people dread failure, feeling that it reflects badly upon themselves as individuals, while growth mindset people instead embrace failure as an opportunity to learn and improve their abilities.
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We have to really send the right messages, that taking on a challenging task is what I admire.
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Besides just doing away with grades, how can we actually convince students that failure is part of the process? As much as we tell them that it's about challenging themselves, when it all boils down to it, at the end of the grading period we still have to put a number on their report card. So hard to reconcile!
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Parents around the dinner table and teachers in the classroom should ask, ‘Who had a fabulous struggle today?
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how to model a growth mindset amongst students and one of her key principles is encouraging teachers to see themselves as learners, and, just like students are all capable of learning and improving, so too are teachers
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A second principle requires that schools provide opportunities for teachers to try new things and make mistakes.
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what will teachers and the school learn as part of the process, rather than whether the new idea is going to be a success or a failure.
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inked to it, and equally vital, is providing a chance for teachers to reflect upon their new ideas and consider what they learned from the process. Ideally, this reflection should focus less on whether the idea was a success or a failure, but rather on what the teacher learnt from the process.
