Education Week – Starr Sackstein
“Often the messages students hear from families and teachers praise or criticize their innate abilities, and so they grow to believe they are one way or another, developing into a fixed mindset. For example, if a student hears over and over that they are gifted in math, they will be inclined to think so. Then when they encounter a struggle at any level, they may judge themselves and/or give up easily believing that math is supposed to be easy for them. Or on the converse side, the student doesn’t experience much success in a subject and therefore feels that math just isn’t for them.” (more)