Free SEL Growth Mindset Activities: Teach Your Students About Grit, The Power of Yet, & Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
Are you ready to give your students the "power of yet" by teaching them about Growth Mindsets? I teach my students about growth mindsets during our morning meetings. It’s the perfect structure for discussing the concept of growth mindset and helping students develop the attitudes and skills of a growth-minded person! Read on to see my entire Growth Mindset Theme unit and be sure to subscribe to Tarheelstate Teacher to get your free Growth Mindset activities sent straight to your inbox!
I use a theme-based, literature-focused SEL morning meeting that incorporates picture books, videos, student reflections, whole-group discussions, activities that inspire students to engage with the SEL topic, and analysis of related quotations. I couldn’t be happier with how students respond to this SEL morning meeting routine and with how I can target literacy standards with the variety of activities included in these SEL morning meetings.
These Growth Mindset activities and materials allow you to provide your students with morning meeting activities and lessons that encourage social-emotional learning and growth, character education, and community building at its best!
Best of all, you can use these growth mindset anchor charts, quotations about growth mindset, suggested growth mindset books, growth mindset bulletin boards, and growth mindset activities and lesson ideas even if you don't incorporate them as strict morning meetings!
What's Included in the Free Growth Mindset ACTIVITIES resource?
a Growth Mindset Bulletin Board that includes quotations about growth mindset, key vocabulary words (like growth mindset, fixed mindset, grit, neuroplasticity, and more), and a shared goal component; this bulletin board gives you the language necessary for introducing growth mindset!
HELPFUL NOTES AND GROWTH MINDSET LESSON IDEAS FOR GETTING STARTED
A detailed teacher overview of the SEL growth mindset theme offers you suggested growth mindset books for read alouds, discussion questions, growth mindset activities and extension ideas, and links to growth mindset videos and online resources that will enhance your lessons. These plans have been a lifesaver for me. As I strive to implement good-quality, SEL morning meetings, I have what I need at my fingertips, but now, most of the planning is done for me—especially if I don’t have much time to prepare before the week gets going!
Wondering how to get started with a literature-based SEL morning meeting? I’ve included an outline for getting started and will share more information in the emails after sending your free growth mindset activities and resources.
STUDENT JOURNAL PAGES & GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITY SHEETS
Student journal cover pages for your SEL growth mindset unit include the important vocabulary and related quotations about growth mindset. On the first or second day of a new SEL morning meeting theme unit, students receive theme cover pages to glue into their journals.
Student self-assessments: It's important for students to complete a self-reflection at the launch of a new SEL morning meeting theme. These questions focus students’ thinking on how they have used a growth mindset in the past, recalling when they have learned to do hard things, and whether or not their current beliefs are “growth-minded.” Students use their initial reflection to set a personal growth mindset goal and identify strategies that they could use to improve in that area.
Student journal pages align with the suggested growth mindset activities and discussion prompts are included.
The 4-quadrant set of prompts help you initiate discussions about growth mindset. I use this discussion prompt journal page to allow students to jot down ideas before I begin the whole group discussion. This allows me to hold everyone accountable for thinking about the questions and it's a great way to ensure that each and every child could contribute something to the conversation. I often turn prompts from these journal pages into growth mindset anchor charts that we can refer back to at anytime.
Additional growth mindset activities include teaching students about growth mindset concepts—like Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset comparisons and “Flip that Mindset.”
QUOTATIONS ABOUT GROWTH MINDSET
Inspiring quotations about growth mindset are embedded throughout the growth mindset materials—in the bulletin board, journal cover pages, and in quotation response sheets where students reflect on what the quotation about growth mindset means. It is my hope that these quotations about growth mindset help students develop ways of thinking about growth mindset and mantras they can use to encourage themselves and others!
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THEMES TO GUIDE YOUR SEL MORNING MEETINGS ALL YEAR LONG
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