Professional Learning for Busy Educators

elow is a handy visual we created based on Marcus post. It features  10 practical strategies you can use to foster a growth-mindset culture in your class. These include: avoid praising intelligence and sheer effort, use diverse teaching strategies, teach the values of challenges, introduce simple gamification elements, encourage students to expand their answers, explain the purposes of abstract skills and concepts, use success folders and many more. We invite you to check it out and share with us your feedback.

We educators may be tempted to believe that once students develop growth mindset, they are adequately prepared to face life’s challenges and changes. But growth mindset is not nearly enough by itself to thoroughly outfit anyone with all it takes to attain their full potential.

Possessing a positive perspective is but one instrument in what must be a cohesive quartet that meets each child’s fundamental needs. Growth mindset is indeed crucial, but not any more or less so than three other sets of readiness. Educators must nurture the whole child. The following four core capabilities are equally important and inextricably intertwined.