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UNLOCKING YOUR GROWTH MINDSET

SEL Lightspeed Grade 9

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Unlocking Your Growth Mindset

Unlocking Your Growth Mindset

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What is a Growth Mindset?

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What is a growth mindset?

Why is it important to have a growth mindset in school?

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  • Slide Suggestions:
  • Engaging title slide with definitions of "Growth Mindset" vs. "Fixed Mindset."
  • Visuals illustrating the differences, such as a flourishing tree for growth and a static rock for fixed.
  • Discussion Questions:
  • What is a growth mindset?Possible Answer: It’s believing that abilities and intelligence can be developed through effort and learning.
  • Why is it important to have a growth mindset in school?Possible Answer: It helps us see challenges as opportunities to improve and learn, not as barriers.

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Identifying Fixed vs. Growth Mindset

What’s a fixed mindset statement you’ve thought before? How can you change it to a growth mindset?

Why is changing your mindset from fixed to growth beneficial?

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  • Slide Suggestions:
  • List of fixed mindset statements and their growth mindset alternatives.
  • Interactive poll: Students choose whether statements reflect a fixed or growth mindset.
  • Discussion Questions:
  • What’s a fixed mindset statement you’ve thought before? How can you change it to a growth mindset?Possible Answer: "I’m just not good at math." Can change to "I can improve at math with more practice and help."
  • Why is changing your mindset from fixed to growth beneficial?Possible Answer: It makes me more open to learning and less afraid of failing.

Strategies for Developing a Growth Mindset

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What is a goal that can help you develop a growth mindset?

Developing a growth mindset can look like setting learning goals, embracing challenges, and reflecting on learning processes.Role-play some of these scenarios or have a group discussion to practice these strategies.

How can embracing challenges help you grow?

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  • Slide Suggestions:
  • Tips for developing a growth mindset, like setting learning goals, embracing challenges, and reflecting on learning processes.
  • Role-play scenarios or group discussions to practice these strategies.
  • Discussion Questions:
  • What is a goal that can help you develop a growth mindset?Possible Answer: To ask for feedback on essays to learn how to write better.
  • How can embracing challenges help you grow?Possible Answer: It exposes me to new things and teaches me that I can overcome difficulties through effort.

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Applying Growth Mindset to Overcome Challenges

Choose a challenge and describe how a growth mindset could change your approach to it.

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List some personal challenges and discuss how to apply growth mindset principles to those scenarios.Try discussing in groups to develop and discuss different action plans for using a growth mindset to overcome these challenges.

How could viewing it through a growth mindset lens change your feelings about it?

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  • Slide Suggestions:
  • Students list personal challenges and discuss how to apply growth mindset principles to these scenarios.
  • Group activity to develop action plans for using a growth mindset to overcome these challenges.
  • Discussion Questions:
  • Choose a challenge and describe how a growth mindset could change your approach to it.Possible Answer: Instead of getting frustrated with difficult science concepts, I can view them as a chance to expand my understanding through study and asking for help.
  • Reflect on a past failure. How could viewing it through a growth mindset lens change your feelings about it?Possible Answer: Seeing a failure as a learning opportunity rather than a setback could make me less upset and more motivated to try again.
It exposes me to new things and teaches me that I can overcome difficulties through effort.
Instead of getting frustrated with difficult science concepts, I can view them as a chance to expand my understanding through study and asking for help.
It’s believing that abilities and intelligence can be developed through effort and learning.
Seeing a failure as a learning opportunity rather than a setback could make me less upset and more motivated to try again.
To ask for feedback on essays to learn how to write better.
It makes me more open to learning and less afraid of failing.
"I’m just not good at math!" can change to "I can improve at math with more practice and help."
It helps us see challenges as opportunities to improve and learn, not as barriers.