Revisiting Your Growth Mindset Plan

Revisiting Your Growth Mindset Plan

Looking back at the year, I said that I have a growth mindset. I still believe that I have that mindset, but at times I can fall from my thought process and slip into a fixed mindset. I really need to look at myself every day to ensure that I am continuing down the path of a growth mindset to create a good example for students. My overall goal is to build students that have a growth mindset, so that students will continue to grow after they leave me.

First, I am going to start off the year with a difficult task that will give every student a challenge. I am going to make it a group challenge where all students work together towards one goal. I am going to tell them at the beginning that they all have 100 just for coming in today. I will give everyone extra credit on their first major grade if the puzzle is solved. Throughout the course, I plan to talk about the process of everything. I will focus on complimenting the process for each student. I will focus on the process while grading. Then, I will give them the same puzzle at the end of the year.

My hopes for this is that students will become less concerned about grades and more concerned with the process of the learning. Grit is a hard thing to teach, but I believe giving students hard work to complete and raising the expectation, but rewarding the process and not the results will help grit grow.