S3EP01 Ten ways to cultivate a growth mindset & enjoy teaching more
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As much as we’d like to believe that we’re growth mindset oriented, most of us (myself included!) will likely discover upon reflection that there are old fixed mindset thought patterns that we haven’t quite let go of. Fortunately, we can examine these self-defeating thoughts and replace them with growth mindset thoughts that are empowering and energizing. See if you can recognize yourself in any of these 10 fixed mindset traps, and practice exercising a growth mindset instead.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, episode 1 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into |
| 0:11.8 | the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the |
| 0:15.0 | week ahead. Today I'm going to share some thoughts on cultivating a growth mindset |
| 0:19.8 | in you and your students so you can enjoy teaching more. |
| 0:23.8 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, |
| 0:26.7 | links to recommended resources, |
| 0:28.6 | and share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:31.1 | So it feels so good to be back with you guys. I hope you had a restful holiday season. |
| 0:36.0 | I used November in early December to get ahead on a few projects including season three of the |
| 0:41.9 | podcast and then I took a week off to be |
| 0:44.8 | with family which was amazing and I'm just so excited to be back with you all for our |
| 0:50.0 | third season now I can't believe it's spent a whole year since I started the |
| 0:55.1 | podcast. So this season is going to run until just before Memorial Day weekend in |
| 1:00.7 | May. So hopefully that will give you some weekly encouragement to get you |
| 1:04.7 | through the winter and spring almost to the end of the school year. So a couple housekeeping |
| 1:10.0 | kind of things before we dig into the week's topic. In case you don't normally |
| 1:14.0 | visit my blog at the Cornerstone for teachers.com I wanted to let you know that |
| 1:19.1 | there's a new and improved podcast player that's embedded directly into my podcast blog |
| 1:25.5 | posts. So for every episode of the podcast going all the way back to season one |
| 1:30.5 | there's a corresponding blog post with most of the podcast content that |
| 1:35.6 | transcribed. It's formatted a little different to be optimized for reading rather |
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