Encouraging the Growth Mindset

The concept of the Growth Mindset vs. the Fixed Mindset is one that I can relate to in my personal life. My 13 year old daughter as severe autism and sensory processing disorder. In learning to teach her, we have not only had to seek out alternative ways to communicate with her, but also to embrace the different way that she thinks. With any special needs students, it is very easy to get stuck in what they can't do, rather than focusing on what they can. I've learned over the years that we can find better success by celebrating what she can do, what she loves to do, and helping her explore those things in a way that incorporates other "more traditional" learning. This process is very similar to the "not yet" way of accepting that we all learn at a different pace. When we take the crushing failure mindset out of the equation and teach through success it creates a much happier way to learn.




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When I look around at my peers with typical children who are embarking on their teenage years, I see the stress that these kids face everyday. Stress to conform to what society and their fixed, "right now" mindset tells them they must achieve is overwhelming them. If we can retrain ourselves to appreciate our strengths and accept that the successes will come with time, we can effect a happier, healthier generation. 

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