Classroom Posters: Reinforcing Growth Mindset and Positivity with Visual Cues

Getting a new classroom ready for the beginning of the school year isn’t about reveling in the still orderly collections of supplies and perfectly curated bulletin boards. Well, okay, that’s part of the fun. But there is also science behind making classrooms warm, inviting, inspiring and visually interesting. Really.

Sharing concepts via posters can improve metacognitive practice
Posters can not only be a way to reinforce learning, but also a method to spark group discussions
The visual display of information helps with both verbal and non-verbal processers

While much of the research cited above is about learning concepts in more traditional disciplines, they can also be applied to sharing and reinforcing concepts like growth mindset, which is why we have created a set of classroom posters.