Growth Mindset in teachers

https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/developing-growth-mindset-teachers-and-staff

The first time I met the "Growth Mindset" was several years ago. To be very honest with you, this mindset helped me a lot.

I am Japanese. I am from the country where all students are assessed with scores, by using standard deviation and other benchmarks to see how better/worse you are compared with others. Needless to say, I did not have any of growth mindset at all.
Actually I did know that my mindset was very fixed at that time, and simply that's not so good. When EQ (or EI:Emotional Intelligence) became a hot topic - it was late 90s in Japan - I was teaching at Japanese primary school. With my colleagues I discussed a lot, especially how we use the quotient in school. We couldn't reach the conclusion. Instead, we kindly laughed at it like "Japanese will never value it". We might be right. Still.

So now I am thinking about an easy question. What if the teachers fixed mindset only? The answer is too easy to write here. But here is the next question. So what about you? How do you show your growth mindset?

So I started

I have been teaching International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) for 10 years, and I am the PYP Coordinator as well.

Knowing many educators writing blogs, I initially hesitated to do it. First of all, I am not good at writing so much. Secondly, there was a fear of making mistakes. And finally, I had tons of excuses for not spending time for writing - yep I am always busy as you are.

Instead, I love to read educational articles. I am hunting for good ones all the time via Twitter, Facebook, etc, etc. Then I thought it would be great if I can discuss those with some people, preferably face to face. Our school has a PTA closed page on Facebook where I have been sharing those articles. But I eventually occupied the page and pushed some other info away. I felt simply bad. So, I decided to start this blog. Also, since this blog is open for public, I hope I can connect as a professional educator with other people who are interested in education. I would like to share the information/ideas/thoughts with:
- Teachers I work/worked with
- Parents of our students
- People who would like to know what's happening in international education

Voila!