Growth Mindset Activities

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With these New Years activities for your SEL and school counseling lessons, your students will make a New Year's resolution to help someone each day of the year. Students will then reflect on their goal and consider how they have helped people and how they can help others in the future. The activities can be used with the book Squirrel's New Years Resolution.

The book How To Catch A Star will help you talk about growth mindset, goal setting and perseverance with your students. These book companion activities will help your students set goals and develop a plan for perseverance. These are great for back to school counseling lessons #GoalSetting #GrowthMindset #CounselorChelsey #SchoolCounseling

These executive functioning lessons for kids will help your upper elementary students learn about organization, goal setting, perseverance and staying on task. Includes 6 lessons with activities. Also includes data collection sheets to help monitor your students work completion. Perfect for IEP data collection, and for students who struggle with executive functioning. Can be used in individual, small group or classroom school counseling lessons!

These four self esteem activities for kids will help your elementary students use positive affirmations, identify their strength, learn positive self talk and learn coping skills for low self esteem. This bundle includes cut and paste activities, worksheets, games, and an interactive notebook. They are perfect for building confidence through your character education or school counseling lessons. These can be used in individual, small group or classroom settings!

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Use these perseverance activities for kids to teach your kids not to give up! These worksheets, posters, task cards, activities, etc. will teach your students 9 perseverance strategies to help them persevere and maintain a growth mindset! These are perfect for character education lessons in your classroom, or for individual, small group or classroom school counseling lessons!

Looking for new years themed school counseling activities? These behavior reflection and goal setting activities will help your elementary students set positive behavior goals for the next year and reflect on their behavior for the past year. This is a fun way to work with students who have behavior goals. The activities are in printable and digital formats, and include seasonal positive reinforcement charts to help students track their goals!

Teach primary children to reflect on learning and set goals using the 3 stars and a wish activity. Includes 2 FREE printables to print and use in your classroom for assessment.

Use these perseverance activities to help your students learn 9 coping strategies they can use when they feel like giving up. These will encourage upper elementary students to have a growth mindset and not give up. There are activities, posters, and data sheets included in this resource. #Perseverance #GrowthMindset #CounselorChelsey #SchoolCounseling

Help your students build their self esteem with these positive self talk activities for school counseling. These ideas will help your students learn to believe in themselves and replace their negative self talk with positive thoughts. These activities can be used with individual students or in small group or classroom counseling lessons. #CounselorChelsey #SchoolCounseling

Recommend these novels that inspire a growth mindset to your middle school and high school students. These growth mindset novels are a perfect addition to any middle school ELA or high school English classroom library. #secondaryELA #2ndaryELA #Englishteacher #Teacher #classroomlibrary #growthmindset

Your k-2 students will love learning about making mistakes and having a growth mindset with the book Beautiful Oops and these growth mindset companion activities. Students will learn to embrace mistakes and use positive self talk as a way to overcome challenges. These are great for students who have anxiety, or struggle with self esteem and perfectionism. #CounselorChelsey #GrowthMindset #SchoolCounseling #BooksInSchoolCounseling

These self esteem cut and paste activities will help your students learn about self esteem concepts such as positive self talk and coping skills. These are great to have on hand with individual students who have low self esteem, and can also be used in your school counseling small group and classroom lessons! #CounselorChelsey #SelfEsteem #SchoolCounseling

Encourage a growth mindset in your elementary students with this winter themed board game. This board game will help students to review what a growth mindset is, how it affects them, strategies they can use, and how to re-phrase negative talk. It is a great game for small groups, individual, or classroom counseling lessons. #GrowthMindset #SchoolCounseling #CounselorChelsey

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