“…Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort and keep on learning” (Carol Dweck)

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ECED 531B 97A: Supporting Young Children’s Social Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Programs (Instructor: Dr. Molly Lawlor) 

Final Assignment – Workshop for teachers: Presentation 

This is a workshop about Growth Mindset: process-focused pedagogical thinking. It was created to provide Kindergarten teachers with some ideas and inspiration. The overall goals of this workshop are:

1.To learn how we can develop Growth Mindset to enhance both our personal and our professional lives.

2.To learn how to help our students develop Growth Mindset to support them in at school, at home, and in life.

Developing a Growth Mindset can help us acquire skills, including resilience, optimism, and  gratitude; skills needed to navigate an increasingly complex world and live the best life we can live. Once we stop focusing on the outcome, and start focusing on the process, we start seeing life differently. We start seeing success, health, and happiness differently. This shift in thinking allows us to make mistakes, take risks, learn, and grow by fully utilizing potentials and possibilities. When we experience the rewards of growth mindset: effort and perseverance first hand, we are more likely to take risks, learn from mistakes, focus on the process, and work through challenges. This presentation describes several strategies that can be used to support our own and our students’ development of growth mindset. Process-focused experiences, including play, encourage students to develop positive mindsets that allow them to acquire skills and traits that lead to personal and academic success, happiness, and well-being.

Link to Presentation: Google Slides

Download PDF: Growth Mindset Workshop

References

Dweck, C, S. (n.d). Retrieved March 1, 2021 from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/849006-if-

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