5 ways to teach children the growth mindset

• Reward effort, not attainment.
• Encourage them to take risks with their learning.
• It’s ok to make mistakes. Use it as an opportunity to learn what could improve the outcome next time.
• When praising your child,  focus on the strategies and skills they employed to learn about a specific subject, rather than their innate talent or skills.
• Be mindful of the messages conveyed at home. For example, referring to yourself as ‘bad at maths’ or ‘no good at spelling’ can reinforce the idea that intelligence is fixed.

‘I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures…I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.’  Benjamin Barber