A growth mindset is the new hot topic in education. Who doesn’t want their students to embrace failure and not be discouraged when things are a struggle. So how do we continue teaching a growth mindset?

A growth mindset is a key to helping our students embrace failure. It is the mental state where students are encouraged to fail in a way that they learn from their failure.

Learning from failure and persevering when things get tough can be taught with the power of yet. Just because something is hard doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to succeed. It just means that you don’t have it yet.

How do we teach growth mindset?

Start by creating an environment that is safe to fail. Students are constantly failing and need to feel safe when this occurs. If students feel safe in failure then they aren’t afraid of it. They can take the power to improve what they are working on.

Remember the power of yet. This is a great tool to teach students. It helps them understand that just because they don’t have it yet doesn’t mean that they won’t ever achieve it.

Model a growth mindset. Don’t be afraid to talk about things that are challenging for you and show students how you have a growth mindset.

Praise effort instead of achievement. Take a look at the way you compliment students. Instead of praising A’s or telling them how smart they are start praising progress and effort. This encourages students to keep working.

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