Kids seeing mistakes as opportunities to learn

A recent study confirmed that kids who think they can get smarter if they work hard (have a growth mindset) are more likely to bounce back from their mistakes than those who think their level of intelligence is set in stone (fixed mindset). http://www.livescience.com/57700-kids-mistakes-brain.html  

A new study looks at how teens’ ability to remember is tied to their tendency to be driven by rewards: http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/how-teenagers-learn-differently-than-adults-3075386/  

A new study in Psychological Science found that parents who saw failure as a chance to learn tended to have children who had a growth mindset, whereas parents who saw failure as more negative and bad for learning tended to have children with a fixed mindset. This seems to be because parents with a negative attitude toward failure respond to […]

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University who coined the term “growth mindset” in her 2007 book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.” Dweck identifies two mindsets: the “fixed mindset” and the “growth mindset.” Students who have a fixed mindset believe their intelligence, basic abilities, and talent are unchangeable. In contrast, people who have […]