SEL: Growth Mindset

What is a "Growth Mindset"?

• When you notice that your body is growing.

• Knowing that you have gifts and talents that can grow and deveop.

What is a "Fixed" Mindset"?

• A fixed mindset limits one's abilities to grow. Someone with a fixed mindset believes that their abilities are what they are and can't improve.

• A fixed mindset is the belief that one can be fixed.

This is a fixed mindset: My family doesn't like to read, so I'm not good at reading.

• True

• False

This is a growth mindset: Even though people in my family don't like to read, I can become a better reader.

• True

• False

Growth or fixed mindset: I'm an ethnic minority, so it's hard for me to succeed.

• Fixed mindset

• Growth mindset