Growth Mindset Class Meetings

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One of my goals this year has been to incorporate more meaningful class meetings into my day. After 6 years, I have learned the importance of teaching students more than just the curriculum!

Growth Mindset has been a buzz word for a while now. My school counselor would come in and teach a lesson once a year on Growth Mindset. I loved hearing the lesson but I did not think one lesson was enough! My students heard the importance of a Growth Mindset but didn't put it to practice. 

This year was the year that all that would change! I started the year by introducing a Growth Mindset with the students and continued weekly reminders for 10 weeks! 

Everything you need to foster a growth mindset in your class is in these short class meeting lesson plans! The students will see the Growth Mindset in action, practice identifying a growth mindset, and change their own mindset!

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Download Includes:

• 10 Growth Mindset lessons
• Slideshow for lessons
• Posters and worksheets related to lessons
• Videos relating to the lessons

Here is a sample of one of the lesson plans that can be found in the Growth Mindset Class Meetings!

Objective: Students will determine in a given situation whether the student has a fixed or growth mindset.  

Supplies: growth mindset slideshow, fixed or growth mindset task cards.

Procedures:

1. Start discussion with: Does anyone know what a fixed or growth mindset is?
2. Define Fixed and Growth Mindset.
1. Fixed Mindset - Believing that you only have a certain amount of talent or brain power.
2. Growth Mindset - Knowing that you can learn and have the ability to improve!
3. Have students turn and talk to tell their partner in their own words what fixed and growth mindsets are.
4. Group students into 2-4 students. Give each group a set of task cards.
5. Have the students separate the task cards into 2 piles: Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset.

Closure: Review which cards went into each pile and have the students redefine what a fixed mindset and a growth mindset is.

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What do you think? How do you foster a growth mindset in your classroom?