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Growth Mindset

CONCEPTUAL
Personal & Social Development›Self-Regulation & Resilience|Ages 7—9|ID: mt_pAuo9Op89t

Understand the concept of a growth mindset — that abilities and intelligence can grow with effort, practice, and good strategies — as opposed to a fixed mindset where you believe you're either good at something or you're not

Mastery Evidence

  • Explain the difference between growth mindset and fixed mindset in their own words
  • Use 'yet' language when describing something they find difficult
  • Give an example of something they got better at through practice and effort

Assessment Prompt

“When [child] finds something difficult like learning to ride a bike or mastering times tables, do they say 'I can't do it YET' rather than 'I'm just not good at this'?”

Curriculum Standards2 alignments

PSPE-ID-CU-P2-4IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequencecodes only
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PSPE-ID-LO-P2-12IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequencecodes only
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Prerequisites3

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  • Vocabulary: resilience and self hard

    The growth mindset concept requires understanding the vocabulary pair 'growth mindset' vs 'fixed mindset'

  • Learning from Mistakes hard

    Growth mindset builds on understanding mistakes as learning opportunities

    • Words for Big Feelings soft

      Framing mistakes as learning uses the vocabulary of feelings management and coping with setback

  • Making Sense of Problems soft

    Growth mindset understanding (SEL) is grounded in the concrete experience of persevering through mathematical problems — the abstract principle is made real through mathematics

    • Checking Your Own Work soft

      Checking whether a maths answer makes sense applies the universal self-checking habit to a mathematical context

    • How Many in Total? soft

      Problem sense-making at 5-6 requires cardinality understanding to make sense of 'how many' problems

      • One-to-one counting hard

        Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

    • Listening to Texts Read Aloud soft

      Making sense of word problems requires listening comprehension skills

    • Addition as combining or putting together two soft

      Making sense of addition problems requires understanding addition as combining

      • How Many in Total? hard

        Understanding addition as combining groups requires knowing numbers represent quantities (cardinality)

        • One-to-one counting hard

          Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

    • Persisting When It's Hard soft

      Mathematical perseverance with problems is the domain-specific application of the universal persistence habit

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