The Year 10’s in study skills have been looking at growth mindset. The idea of growth mindset was developed by Carol S. Dweck Ph.D. Her research is focused on why people succeed and how to foster success. A growth mindset comes from the belief that your abilities and intelligence are things that can develop and grow with effort. A person who has a growth mindset thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of lack of intelligence, but as a springboard for growth and for stretching their own abilities. According to Dweck’s research, people who have a growth mindset reach much higher levels of achievement and success.

The Year 10’s each received their own individual piece of the puzzle with a prompt to complete, ‘I will work longer when I am trying to figure something out. I will not give up quickly. Strategies or things that I might do to help reach my goal:…’. This is displayed in the Year 10 Home-group as a constant reminder to the students to not give up and that they can achieve anything they put their minds too.

Tamisha Roberts