Growth Mindset
"It turns out that the mindsets predict how well students end up doing. Students with growth mindsets tend to stick with it, tend to persevere in the face of difficulty, and tend to be successful in challenging classes. Students with the fixed mindset tend not to.
"So for teachers, the lesson is that if you can talk to students and suggest that a growth mindset really is the more accurate model - and it is - then students tend to be more open to trying new strategies, and sticking with the course, and working in ways that are going to promote learning. Ability, intelligence, and learning have to do with how you approach it - working smarter, we like to say."
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It turns out that mindsets perdict how well students end up doing.
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Research by psychologist Carol Dweck suggests that there are two basic mindsets that influence how people think about themselves and their abilities: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.
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