This is at the heart of all we do in our classroom, facilitating that "give it a go" attitude along with an understanding of how the brain learns, to develop independent, responsible lifelong learners.
Below are some links to the research findings, that informs how we teach and which you may find interesting.
All the children are have seen
How We Learn and we regular refer to this as we are learning.
Carol Dweck - The Power of believing that you can improve.
JoAnn Deak's elucidating book "
My Fantastic Elastic Brain" is also available as a
paid app for iPad and includes a range of activities to grow the different areas of the brain.
