Helping Learners Move Beyond “I Can’t Do This”

I was excited about the references to growth mindset in the Twitter stream from #InstCon today, and here's a fantastic new infographic from Jackie Gerstein that has a lot of relevance to the growth mindset approach; read the blog post for details about each item in the infographic: Helping Learners Move Beyond “I Can’t Do This” — and here's the infographic, with the transcription below:

Helping Learners Move Beyond "I Can't"

• Help learners focus on “I can’t do this . . .  YET.”
• Teach learners strategies for dealing with frustration.
• Encourage learners to ask for help from their peers.
• Give learners tasks a little above their ability levels.
• Emphasize the processes of learning rather than its product.
• Reframe mistakes and difficulties as opportunities for learning.
• Focus on mastery of learning; mastery of skills.
• Avoid the urge to rescue them.
• Provide multiple opportunities to learn and build upon previous learning.
• May need to push learners beyond self-perceived limits.
• Help learners accept an “it’s okay” when a task really is too hard (only as a last resort).
• Build reflection into the learning process.