Growth Mindset

Professor Carol Dweck, an American psychologist, found out that children (and grown ups) with a growth mindset believe abilities can be developed through effort, persistence, trying different ways of doing things and very importantly learning from mistakes. 

Have you ever said 'I can't do that!' or 'I'm not good at this!'?  Then that's a fixed mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe that our abilities are fixed traits; something that you are born with and that you can’t do anything about.

At St James we believe in a GROWTH MINDSET where we say 'I can't do that YET' or 'I'm not  good at this YET'.  We believe that achievement takes hard work and lots of effort and if we believe we can we will.  So next time something is tricky remember to use that important word:

YET

Have you received a 'Great Growth Mindset' award this term?  If you have then you have been remembering to persevere when things are tricky and to try to reach for the stars.

Learning Behaviours

To help us reach our goals we try to have good learning behaviours.  

Seeking a challenge

Concentrating

Listening

Learning from mistakes

Having a go

Persevering 

Talking

Helping others

Here are some of the stories which we think help to remind us to have a growth mindset.