For the past few months we have been exploring the ideas around this simple but positive approach to improving learning. In our lessons, assemblies and displays we have been promoting effort as a personal quality, building resilience in learners and celebrating mistakes as excellent learning opportunities. Recent research studies have shown that consistently emphasising these qualities assists in developing more independent and resilient learners.
We shared some of these thoughts at our Parents' Consultation Evening and we offer these links for those of you who wish to know more.
Here are a number of short articles explaining the origins of Growth Mindset
This site attempts to use some graphics to separate Fixed Mindset thinking from that of Growth Mindset
Here is a summary of the precepts behind Growth Mindset thinking