You may have heard people talking about the importance of having a 'growth mindset' as opposed to a 'fixed mindset' recently. These words have been especially popular in many schools, as we look to encourage children to view the effort that they put into their learning as a path to mastery, rather than seeing their level of ability or intelligence as 'fixed'.
Carol Dweck is a popular researcher in this field. You may like to listen to one of her talks on the subject here.
Last Friday during assembly Room 14 shared an animated video presented by Class Dojo that tells the story of Mojo, a student who discovers that his brain is like a muscle that can grow and improve with effort. All of the Class Dojo videos in the series can be viewed here.
After the story about Mojo, Room 14 shared some of ways we can rephrase our responses to challenges in our learning. We found the ideas online and hope they made an impression on our assembly audience!
Instead of saying i can't do this say i can do this i just have to figure it out and solve it.
ReplyDeleteInstead of saying I can't make this better try thinking I can always improve so I'll keep trying
ReplyDeleteinstead of thinking hhhuuuuuhhh plan a didn't work
Deletestart thinking good thing there's 25 more letters in the alphabet
Very thoughtful comments room 14! Listening to that made me think about my work and what I can do to improve. Like me and Kerryn said "Instead of saying it's good enough, try thinking is this really my best work?".
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