Growth Mindset – TeachThought University

25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset

Library / By Terry Heick / 4 minutes of reading

Growth mindset sentence stems model the language, tone, and patterns that can lead to the development of a growth mindset over time.

Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.

Help students understand that ‘help’ is the norm in the creative, scientific, and professional world. It’s not just ‘okay,’ it’s necessary.

There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.

From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.

Library / By TeachThought Uni Staff / 11 minutes of reading

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.

My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.

Library / By Terry Heick / 4 minutes of reading

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.

Library / By Terry Heick / 5 minutes of reading

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.