For over 30 years, Carol Dweck has studied students’ motivation in order to find out what makes motivated students tick and she says: “Here is the most important thing I have learned: The most motivated and resilient students are not the ones who think they have a lot of fixed or innate intelligence. Instead, the most motivated and resilient students are the ones who believe that their abilities can be developed through their effort and learning”.
Read [[http://www.cea-ace.ca/pub.cfm?subsection=edu&page=onl|Dweck’s article]] for more about teaching students about learning.
(Source: Canadian Education Association )
Learn more about [[http://changelearning.ca/books/mindset-new-psychology-success|Mindset: the New Psychology of Success]], Dweck’s book on the topic.