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What are some techniques you have used, or currently use, to encourage a growth mindset in yourself?
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I have always had a growth mindset. My father who is 87 is still learning new things and has been his whole life, so I have followed in his example and read several new books each year so that I am broadening my understanding and learning new things at all times.
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I try to listen to radio programs, read articles, and of course study the Bible and constantly asking God to teach me and show me “which way to go” “how to live” according to His will and purposes.
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I think one of the techniques I use to keep a growth mindset is reflection. I need time to reflect in my classroom and in my daily life. It happens all the time, I think back on a lesson and how it can be improved. I also think back on conversations, on my answers and even my attitudes. I try to improve and many times, I have to go back and explain or redo. It is all a constant learning process.
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I try to learn something new each day from the Bible and from my students that I may be able to carry on throughout the day and learn grow from it. I may even use it to change how a lesson is taught in the next class or how I present materials from that point in the current class.
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My biggest motivator in keeping a growth mindset is reminding myself that it’s okay if I don’t know something because I may have never been taught that before. I can’t expect myself to have knowledge that has never been passed down, so I must give myself grace and time to either read and study the concept myself or allow someone else to teach me. I also remind myself that it’s better to go ahead and learn something and potentially not agree with it or use it than it is to never learn it and not know if it would have been helpful or not. I’ve never learned something new and then thought “Man, I wish I didn’t have this skill”, but many times I’ve missed an opportunity to grow and later thought “Man, if I had learned this earlier I would be super fluent in it now.”
