A Mindset for Learning

We are continuing to learn about different mindsets.  We have looked at brains grow, empathy, persistence and optimism.  We will be looking at resilience and flexibility next.  We are writing about some of our learning.  Below are some examples of when we are learning about the different mindsets.

Brains grow and we learn from our mistakes

Empathy - we can say or show we care

Persistence  - Try, try, try and then you'll fly

We first tried to draw a bird flying.  I said we had to be quick!  There were some grumbles around the class.  Afterwards the children wrote down what they were saying to themselves.  For example, that was hard, that was quick, I'll do my best.  Afterwards we were sharing what we could be saying to ourselves that would be helpful.  We also learned our persistence phrase to help remind us - try, try, try and then you'll fly.  

Optimism

First we answered a couple of questions.  If you were given an ice-cream but not your favourite, how would you feel?  If you did not get to play the math game you wanted at math time, how would you feel?  We had a variety of feelings.  

We then learned about being optimistic and being pessimistic.  We are learning that we can have a choice in how we feel or react to a situation.  We are also learning there might be different ways at looking at something.