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Tag: growth mindsets and language
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All the oven-ready tools you need to support parents at your school and get them onboard with growth mindsets
Exemplar Questions Once you have started communicating with parents about growth mindsets, the next step is to give parents growth mindsets parenting tools they can use at home with their…
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Nine growth mindset language strategies you can use to subtly alter how you communicate with parents
Changes to Reporting Reports are one of the main ways schools interact with parents. Changing the make-up of your reports gives you another way to communicate growth mindset ideas. Here…
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Put the power to shape learners’ mindsets in your hands by establishing a language of challenge in your classroom
Establishing a language of challenge in your classroom means finding ways to communicate to learners that challenge is good, that it is to be expected, and that it is to…
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The easy way to establish a challenge culture in your classroom and use this to promote growth mindsets
Learners working from the perspective of a growth mindset may be more likely to see challenge as a good thing. For them, challenges represent an opportunity to learn. There is…
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Twenty ready-made reflection questions that promote metacognition and help learners see their thinking as open to change
Reflective questioning asks learners to look at what they have done and to think critically about it. The aim is simple. To help learners assess and critique their own thinking,…
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Change how you talk about effort and change how your learners think about what it’s possible to achieve
Learners operating under a growth mindset are more likely to see effort as a path to mastery. For them, there is a connection between effort and growth. This gives effort…
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How to shift the way learners think about mistakes in your classroom
One of the most important reasons for changing learner attitudes to mistakes is that we need these mistakes out in the open if we are going to teach away from…
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Three strategies and 12 examples of how to reframe the way learners talk about mistakes
Reframing is where we take something learners say, something they think, or something with which they are familiar, and cast it in a different light. It is a semantic exercise,…
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How can changing the way learners perceive mistakes and failure help them develop a growth mindset?
If a learner believes intelligence, talent and ability are fixed, then they may be more inclined to perceive mistakes and failure in a negative light. This, in turn, may make…
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What is mental contrasting and how can you use language tweaks to get learners thinking with a growth mindset?
Mental contrasting is a technique that involves teaching learners a structure through which to think about the future. It works as follows: If … then … That’s mental contrasting. The…