UNDERSTANDING & SUPPORTING GROWTH MINDSET FOR TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

A growth mindset enables personal development as it believes intelligence, abilities and talents can be improved through learning and continuous effort. Cultivating a growth mindset sets a person up for success as she is willing to persevere through initial failure or unsatisfactory outcomes and confront new challenges.

A fixed mindset, however, traps a person in a cycle of negative beliefs that limit personal ability and progress as this fixed mindset believes human abilities are determined at birth and cannot be changed.

Learning objectives:

• differentiate between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset
• understand how a growth mindset nurtures learning and progress
• cultivate a growth mindset
• support the development of a growth mindset in self and colleagues