THE GROWTH MINDSET CLASSROOM

         The purpose for this website is to help you (teachers) to understand what the growth mindset is and enable you to implement it in your classrooms—you will find that it really does illustrate best teaching practices!  And it is supported by all that the Common Core State Standards are trying to establish.  Many of the programs being developed in schools nation-wide today are based on non-cognitive factors, such as effort and grit, but called a variety of things, (students’ dispositions, metacognition, socio-emotional learning outcomes, non-cognitive indicators, affective factors, behavioral objectives and skills, and grit-oriented reforms), all of which stem from the growth mindset and Carol Dweck’s 30 plus years of research.  Today we know that intelligence is responsible for only 25% of one’s success; the other 75% comes from factors that each of us has control over, those non-cognitive factors that are not based on the intelligence we are born with. [1]  After months of research and a great deal of reading, I wanted to put the information on this topic I am so very passionate about in one place and make it easier for my fellow teachers to understand and implement, as well as to have additional resources at your fingertips without all the time-consuming research I did.   If you are reading this, congratulations on your effort to learn, grow, and change; without it your teaching career becomes just a job.  Good luck as you begin to create your own growth mindset classroom; it will take commitment and effort on your part, but seeing how it transforms your students and classroom will make it all worth it…persevere with passion!