Mindset Kit | Celebrate Mistakes

Number of Lessons 5

Designed For Teachers

Time to Complete 20 min

A growth mindset means embracing challenge and mistakes

Learn why mistakes, challenges, and struggles can be key ingredients for success.

Make challenge the new comfort zone

Leading growth mindset researcher, Professor Carol Dweck talks about the downside of easy and the importance of challenge.

Three ways to celebrate mistakes in class

Professor Jo Boaler describes three ways to get students comfortable challenging themselves and making mistakes.

Give work that encourages mistakes: See it in action

Watch a second grade teacher give her students challenging work and guide them in persevering through it.

Downloadable activity ideas

Three ideas to help make challenge the new comfort zone.

Grow your brain.

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Mindset Works blog post: Mistakes Are Not All Created Equal

A great blog post from Mindset Works on the most useful types of mistakes and how to best learn from them.

Activity: Crumpled Reminder

This activity helps participants understand that mistakes help us learn. It can used with students or during a PD.

Highlighting Mistakes

Instead of handing back a test with a grade at the top, hand back a test that highlights students' mistakes.

Students are given a test completed by fictitious student to identify mistakes and describe how they would approach or solve the problem.

Three Ways to Celebrate Mistakes

Three strategies that incorporate the idea that mistakes are important and necessary for growth and learning.

Help students reflect on mistakes: See it in action

In this video, watch a second grade teacher, Mari Montoy-Wilson, help one of her students reflect on a mistake.

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