Growing Mindset: beliefs for embrace challenges and love to life-long learning for young children
Keywords:
Growth mindset, Young children, Confidence, Inspiration, Embrace challenge, Love to learnAbstract
This academic article aimed to present knowledge for early childhood teachers about the meaning of growth mindset, teacher roles, and activities that help develop a growth mindset for early childhood. So that early childhood teachers can apply it to develop a growth mindset for early childhood children as appropriate. A Growth mindset is a belief about intelligence and that ability is something that can be developed or can be changed. A growth mindset for early childhood can be developed by early childhood teachers providing Learning Experiences through integration learning with a focus on process. Setting an environment and use communication to encourage children to think of new ways and have confidence in solving problems. Teachers can also be a model of learning from their own mistakes. In addition, choosing activities that allow children to learn through practice and focusing on the process more than the outcome. Teachers should be considering the selection of activities by the development and age of the child is important, such as storytelling, role-play, cooking activities, playing games, unplug coding, etc., which aim to inspire children's curiosity in new things and Helping children be ready to embrace challenges and change. As children grow up, they will be able to learn from their own mistakes. This is since children are being cultivated with a proper set of beliefs, and it brings them to the love to learn and be happy.
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