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.🧠 What does a growth mindset believe? (a) smart is born (b) skills grow with effort (c) effort is useless (d) talent is fixed
- 2.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: avoiding challenges? (a) growth habit (b) fixed habit
- 3.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Feedback is an attack on me.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 4.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) ignoring feedback (b) giving up quickly (c) asking for help early (d) envying others
- 5.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: hiding your mistakes? (a) growth habit (b) fixed habit
- 6.True or false: “envying others” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 7.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) trying new strategies (b) giving up quickly (c) sticking to easy tasks (d) envying others
- 8.True or false: “I will ask for help and try again.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: enjoying challenges? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 10.True or false: “Let me try a different way.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🌱 Which word turns “I can’t do fractions” into a growth statement? (a) again (b) ever (c) never (d) yet
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding your mistakes (b) envying others (c) enjoying challenges (d) sticking to easy tasks
- 13.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 14.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: envying others? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 15.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) praising effort (b) asking for help early (c) trying new strategies (d) envying others
- 16.True or false: “I am just not a maths person.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: “I can’t do this yet, but I’m learning.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 18.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) learning from feedback (b) enjoying challenges (c) trying new strategies (d) giving up quickly
- 19.True or false: “praising effort” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 20.True or false: “I only do what I’m already good at.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 21.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) ignoring feedback (b) sticking to easy tasks (c) praising effort (d) hiding your mistakes
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practising hard skills (b) ignoring feedback (c) praising effort (d) asking for help early
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) giving up quickly (b) praising effort (c) learning from feedback (d) practising hard skills
- 24.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Mistakes help me learn.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 25.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) practising hard skills (b) hiding your mistakes (c) giving up quickly (d) avoiding challenges
- 26.True or false: “Feedback is an attack on me.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 27.True or false: “She is just born talented.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: “learning from feedback” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practising hard skills (b) ignoring feedback (c) sticking to easy tasks (d) envying others
- 31.True or false: “enjoying challenges” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) asking for help early (c) trying new strategies (d) avoiding challenges
- 33.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: ignoring feedback? (a) growth habit (b) fixed habit
- 34.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) learning from feedback (b) trying new strategies (c) avoiding challenges (d) enjoying challenges
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding your mistakes (b) avoiding challenges (c) giving up quickly (d) trying new strategies
- 36.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Why try? I’ll fail anyway.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 37.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) enjoying challenges (b) trying new strategies (c) sticking to easy tasks (d) asking for help early
- 38.🎨 A classmate draws better than you. A growth mindset says… (a) “She is just lucky.” (b) “I’ll never draw well.” (c) “I can learn from her.” (d) “Drawing is silly.”
- 39.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I can’t do this yet, but I’m learning.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) praising effort (c) learning from feedback (d) hiding your mistakes
Answer key
- skills grow with effort
- fixed habit
- fixed mindset
- asking for help early
- fixed habit
- False
- trying new strategies
- False
- growth habit
- False
- yet
- enjoying challenges
- growth mindset
- fixed habit
- envying others
- False
- False
- giving up quickly
- True
- False
- praising effort
- ignoring feedback
- giving up quickly
- growth mindset
- practising hard skills
- True
- True
- True
- False
- practising hard skills
- False
- avoiding challenges
- fixed habit
- avoiding challenges
- trying new strategies
- fixed mindset
- sticking to easy tasks
- “I can learn from her.”
- growth mindset
- hiding your mistakes
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