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As a first and second grade teacher, I believe an important part of my teaching philosophy is to teach my students the necessary adaptive life skills in addition to academic content. Immediately upon beginning my teaching career, I was shocked that many of the children I was working with, even at the early ages of six and seven years, seemed terrified to make mistakes.
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Santiago, R. (2017). Fostering a Growth Mindset. In: Hernandez, F., Endo, R. (eds) Developing and Supporting Critically Reflective Teachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-986-7_6
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