Growth Mindset and Changing the Way We Talk About Learning

I cannot stress enough how important growth mindset is as an educator and parent. It has to go to our core. We have to change the way we speak as adults, that's parents and teachers. When we say "your smart" we are saying that it is inborn and fixed, but if we open ourselves to look at the real effort and energy that leads to learning and not some innate ability, we begin to praise the work and energy. We stop allowing students to stop at not being able to do it and help them realize that it is not "I can't" and is instead it's "not yet." You will begin to realize how ingrained the fixed mindset ideas are in our culture when you begin to try to take away phrases like "your so smart" or "your so artistic" or "your so good at math" or "your good at science." when we are good at something those phrases overlook the real fact of the time we have spent on those things. When we are born we can't do anything on our own, but time and practice gives us the abilities we have today. Learning hasn't changed since those moments, only that we stopped thinking of time as the major factor influencing the amount we know and are able to do.

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