ABSTRACT
More and more studies are surfacing that emphasize the importance of teaching students about their own brains. Increase of motivation, willingness to accept new challenges, and healthier reaction to failure are only a few of the benefits a child will experience when he or she understands how his or her brain works. English teachers can also highlight characters that exhibit growth or fixed mindset traits. Science educators can begin the school year with a mini-unit or weave a thread of neuroscience through an entire year of biology. Therefore creativity is needed when looking for ways to embed some conceptual neuroscience and growth mindset knowledge into the instructional day. After each group states their argument, cards should be classified into three possible groups: Fixed Mindset, Growth Mindset, and Both Fixed and Growth Mindset. Students can then look at the categories and possibly begin to make some generalizations about authors, literary philosophies, and movements in relation to a growth or fixed mindset.
