Hello, Friends!
I have spoken with several teachers who have shared how they
started the last school year with teaching the fundamentals of growth mindset,
and how it positively and profoundly affected their classroom climate last
year. I’ve talked to even more teachers who plan to start with this approach
this year. I even watched my own daughters blossom last year after a teacher they
shared spent several days focusing on the importance of having a growth
mindset. Therefore, when a teacher asked me to create a Growth Mindset PowerPoint
a few months ago (that she could use to introduce the concept at the beginning
of this upcoming school year), I immediately thought, Genius! Why didn't I think of that myself?
After creating the PowerPoint, I thought I was done… until,
during a recent loooooong road trip, I was inspired to create some growth
mindset stations, and make them available for free to my blog readers.
The station I have shared below is simply a sort. Students
cut out a statement, read it, and determine whether it is a statement made by a
person who has a fixed mindset or a person who has a growth mindset.
Click HERE to download these free printables. Then, hop on
over to Upper Elementary Snapshots, where I wrote an accompanying blog post. You’ll
find FOUR MORE FREE STATIONS there
that you can download!
Also, feel free to check out my PowerPoint and partner
plays- just click on the images below. These stations would be an excellent
followup activity after working through the PowerPoint with your students.