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Barriers to a growth mindset

Over the last few months, Ross McWilliam has been looking at adopting growth mindset approaches, particularly for key stage 2 pupils. In this final article in the series, he considers some of the barriers to this way of teaching

For the final article in this four-part series, I would like to focus on the consideration that must be given to those pupils who may have difficulty initially accessing growth mindset strategies and those who might need more support as they encounter barriers to learning.

One possible solution is to build a confident mindset from which a growth mindset can be grown. The solutions I propose will focus on strategies for pupils, teachers and parents.

Having delivered mindset training for a few years now, I have seen and recorded fabulous progress in many schools. Yet amid this progress, there will always be pockets of conscious and subconscious resistance.

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