{"id":566,"date":"2017-01-12T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2017-01-12T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:14:47","slug":"what-is-a-growth-mindset","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/growth-mindsets\/what-is-a-growth-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a growth mindset?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has your child ever said to you \u2018There\u2019s no point, I\u2019ll never be able to do it\u2019 or avoided doing something because they\u2019ve failed at it in the past?<\/p>\n

Feelings like this can be related to what children believe about what makes them \u2018good\u2019 at something \u2013 whether it\u2019s school work, sport, or even their ability to manage their emotions and behaviour.<\/p>\n

Some children will tend to give up on challenging tasks easily, or avoid tasks they\u2019ve failed at before. They tend to believe that being \u2018good\u2019 at a particular activity is a fixed state, and is something they can\u2019t control. In psychology, this way of thinking is called a \u2018fixed mindset<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Others might bounce back quickly from failure and be more likely to explore how they can get better at doing something. They tend to be children who believe that you can improve your abilities by practising, or by finding a different way to achieve your goal. This way of thinking is called a \u2018growth mindset<\/strong>\u2019, and developing it can help make children more resilient for life.<\/p>\n

The key to instilling a growth mindset is teaching kids that their brains are like muscles that can be strengthened through hard work and persistence.<\/p>\n

There are lots of small things you can do every day that can help your child develop a growth mindset<\/p>\n

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Professor Carol Dweck, an American psychologist, found that we all have different beliefs about the underlying nature of ability.<\/p>\n

Children (and adults!) with a growth mindset<\/strong> believe that intelligence and abilities can be developed through effort, persistence, trying different strategies and learning from mistakes.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, people with a fixed mindset<\/strong> believe that our intelligence and abilities are fixed traits; something that you are born with and that you can\u2019t really do anything about.<\/p>\n

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Has your child ever said to you \u2018There\u2019s no point, I\u2019ll never be able to do it\u2019 or avoided doing something because they\u2019ve failed at it in the past? Feelings like this can be related to what children believe about what makes them \u2018good\u2019 at something \u2013 whether it\u2019s school work, sport, or even their … Continue reading What is a growth mindset?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7452,"featured_media":629,"parent":557,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions\/609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/holmstonps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}