Importance Of Growth Mindset

A person’s beliefs about their own abilities and skills can contribute to the person’s overall behavior pattern along with forecasting their success later in life. So it is important for a person to have a growth mindset to better themselves throughout their schooling and life. To understand how to help a child develop growth mindset, I need to discuss what a fixed mindset is so we can avoid encouraging that stagnant mindset.

A fixed mindset is where the person believes that their intelligence is static. If a teacher continuously told a student that they were bad at reading then the child will continuous think that they are bad at reading, which will turn to loathe towards reading. Having taken up the fixed performance narrative, we tend to live into it, becoming the character with the fatal flaw (Johnston, 2012, p.15). These children who believe that learning is fixed will believe that they will not grow as a learner no matter how hard they try. Unfortunately, this is how many children in feel in the classroom due to the teacher’s choice of feedback.

A lot of times when teachers walk around the room to check on their student’s progress, they often say, “good girl” “good job” or “perfect” which implies that the student’s efforts were good enough. This gives the students a fixed mindset that they are good at they particular

A person who has a growth mindset believes that his or her intelligence can be developed and is always changing. Children that have a growth mindset actually use deep processing when reading difficult material and more confident in their problem solving abilities (Johnston, 2012, p.15). This means that the person knows that they can grow as learners whereas a person with a fixed mindset believes that they are good or bad at something and that how it always is. This is why promoting a growth mindset in children is important for teachers to foster in the