How Games Naturally Promote A Growth Mindset
In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.
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Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO--failing gives the data needed to proceed.
Critical Thinking Is A Mindset
Critical thinking is certainly a 'skill' but when possessed as a mindset--a playful and humble willingness--it shifts from a labor to an art.
How To Make A Student Give Up
If you really want to make a student give up, set the bar high and withhold the praise until they reach it.
5 Strategies For Creating A Genius Mindset In Students
Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.
25 Social Emotional Learning Resources For Teachers
Here are 25 social-emotional learning resources for teachers that you can implement to help students grow in the affective domain.
8 High School Classroom Management Strategies That Empower Students
Exchange perspectives: Ask them to explain a situation from your perspective and you explain it from theirs.
10 Ways To Honor Mistakes In The Learning Process
From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.
How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset
How can you help your students develop a growth mindset? Ask them to add 'yet' to the end of their 'I can’t do this' statements.
The Importance Of Intrinsic Motivation
What motivates students? More specifically, what motivates them to be engaged at school to master the objective you've chosen for them?
25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset
Growth mindset sentence stems model the language, tone, and patterns that can lead to the development of a growth mindset over time.
I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students
I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.
8 Strategies For Helping Students Learn To Ask For Help
Help students understand that 'help' is the norm in the creative, scientific, and professional world. It's not just 'okay,' it's necessary.
Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
How We Shifted From Static Learning To Constructionist Learning
My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.