The Stanford Challenge

This podcast was an interview with information about the growth and fixed mindsets. A student with a fixed mindset believes that their intelligence is fixed. The student can't do any better because of what they think of their own abilities. It is pretty difficult for students with a fixed mindset to learn in a strange environment or to learn unfamiliar concepts.
Students in the growth mindset easily adapt in different learning environments. For these students the brain gets larger and they have the potential to learn more. The importance of this category is that every student can learn unfamiliar concepts and learn more in general. There is always more room for knowledge because learning is not fixed.
I believe that each child has different learning abilities but they are all able to learn more. What I should do as their teacher is help them to understand the growth mindset to allow them to learn better just by believing that. This concept makes me think "Believe in yourself". You know it sounds cheesy and your students will probably think it is just as cheesy but if you make them believe in themselves it will only help them. Everyone is capable of learning more but if you have a fixed mindset it can render what you are able to do. At the age they are in school is the time they can absorb the most information, so if they miss out on that time because they have a fixed mindset then it will probably affect them the rest of their life.