Getting Growth Mindset Right

A growth mindset is when an individual believes they can develop their intelligence and talents through hard work, dedication, effort and the help of others.

Help develop confident pupils who embrace challenges in the classroom with these explanations and top tips for establishing a growth mindset classroom environment.

Understand how to introduce growth mindset into your school by, for example, modelling positive language in the classroom such as saying, 'I can't do this yet.' instead of 'I can't do this.'

Getting Growth Mindset Right:

Tips on training teachers and pupils

Refocusing on language used

Focusing on open questions

Encouraging challenge

Embrace mistakes