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Created by: Amy Cochrane, Sarah Phillips and Kara Berge November 2013
Growth Mindset:
A belief that ones intelligence
develops over time through effort.
Create a risk-taking culture:
Risk-Taking Culture: an environment
where students feel free, safe and
comfortable to actively learn despite
making mistakes and facing struggles
Explain that mistakes are a natural
part of learning.

Teach the power of making mistakes
and celebrate the growth from them.

Praise Students for effort applied,
strategies used, choices made, and
persistence displayed while working
towards goals.

Grade for growth.

Have students write a letter to a
struggling student explaining growth
mindset.

Emphasize that speed in learning
varies; its important to go deeper!

Foster Grit:
Grit: putting forth effort towards goals
despite setbacks.
Teach students how to set and focus
on learning goals.

Instill intrinsic motivation to assist in
achieving the students goal.

Teach students to self-regulate and
succeed with delayed gratification

Instill the thought process that we are
all life-long learners. A failure is an
opportunity to grow.
Share stories of people who
persevered in the face of
struggles.
Take time to discuss setbacks:
Can you set a smaller goal?
Can you try a new strategy?
Can you get help?

Motivating Struggling Students to Persevere
I have failed many times but I am not a failure. I have
learned to succeed from my failures. Raskind &
Goldberg
Grit predicts success over and beyond talent. When
you consider individuals of equal talent, the grittier do
better. Duckworth

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