Leadership Skills Worksheet: Growth Mindset
Leader's tip (Not yet — but learning): Growth mindset: “Mistakes help me learn.”, “If I practise, I will get better.”, “Let me try a different way.” Fixed mindset: “I’ll never be good at drawing.”, “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.”, “She is just born talented.” Turn fixed into growth by adding “yet”, praising effort (“You worked so hard!”) and changing the plan, not giving up.
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- 1.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “If I practise, I will get better.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 2.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) enjoying challenges (b) sticking to easy tasks (c) avoiding challenges (d) hiding your mistakes
- 3.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) avoiding challenges (b) asking for help early (c) hiding your mistakes (d) sticking to easy tasks
- 4.True or false: “Why try? I’ll fail anyway.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) envying others (b) practising hard skills (c) ignoring feedback (d) sticking to easy tasks
- 6.True or false: “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: “sticking to easy tasks” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 9.True or false: “hiding your mistakes” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding your mistakes (b) enjoying challenges (c) practising hard skills (d) learning from feedback
- 11.True or false: “I am just not a maths person.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I can’t do this yet, but I’m learning.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 13.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I’ll never be good at drawing.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) asking for help early (c) sticking to easy tasks (d) trying new strategies
- 15.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: ignoring feedback? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 16.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Let me try a different way.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 17.🌱 Which word turns “I can’t do fractions” into a growth statement? (a) never (b) ever (c) again (d) yet
- 18.🧠 What does a growth mindset believe? (a) effort is useless (b) skills grow with effort (c) smart is born (d) talent is fixed
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) avoiding challenges (b) giving up quickly (c) envying others (d) asking for help early
- 20.📉 You failed a test. A fixed mindset thinks… (a) “I’ll ask for help.” (b) “I am not smart.” (c) “I need a new plan.” (d) “I will practise more.”
- 21.True or false: “ignoring feedback” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: “Mistakes help me learn.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: avoiding challenges? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 24.🏅 Which praise builds a growth mindset? (a) “You are a genius!” (b) “It’s easy for you.” (c) “You worked so hard!” (d) “You were born smart.”
- 25.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 26.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Hard work helps me improve.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 27.🎨 A classmate draws better than you. A growth mindset says… (a) “I’ll never draw well.” (b) “She is just lucky.” (c) “Drawing is silly.” (d) “I can learn from her.”
- 28.True or false: “Let me try a different way.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) envying others (b) avoiding challenges (c) trying new strategies (d) hiding your mistakes
- 30.True or false: “envying others” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: “avoiding challenges” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: sticking to easy tasks? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 33.True or false: “hiding your mistakes” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sticking to easy tasks (b) giving up quickly (c) trying new strategies (d) ignoring feedback
- 35.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Mistakes help me learn.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 36.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: praising effort? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 37.True or false: “envying others” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: “avoiding challenges” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sticking to easy tasks (b) ignoring feedback (c) praising effort (d) envying others
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) learning from feedback (c) practising hard skills (d) ignoring feedback
Answer key
- growth mindset
- enjoying challenges
- asking for help early
- False
- practising hard skills
- True
- False
- False
- False
- hiding your mistakes
- True
- growth mindset
- fixed mindset
- sticking to easy tasks
- fixed habit
- growth mindset
- yet
- skills grow with effort
- asking for help early
- “I am not smart.”
- False
- True
- fixed habit
- “You worked so hard!”
- fixed mindset
- growth mindset
- “I can learn from her.”
- False
- trying new strategies
- True
- False
- fixed habit
- True
- trying new strategies
- growth mindset
- growth habit
- False
- True
- praising effort
- ignoring feedback
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