The goal of this research is to investigate how the learning environment might help promote a growth mindset in students. Too many students focus on the final grade they receive on an assignment rather than identifying and learning from patterns of their mistakes. I believe that a positive learning environment can help change students' approach to learning by achieving a growth mindset. A positive learning environment is one in which students feel safe and comfortable making mistakes. It is a place where students feel supported academically despite their level of understanding of a particular topic. My guess is that student mindsets mirror the learning environment. My intervention is focused on getting students to focus on the learning process (i.e. thinking about how they arrived at the answer rather than what the right answer actually is). A support factor also includes the type of praise my students will receive from me. I hope to create an environment where praise is given during (not just after) the learning process and it will be a rewarding effort on the student's part regarding what they are learning. A student with a growth mindset will see a wrong answer as an indicator of what they need to work on a little harder than simply what they don't know or have failed to learn. Students with a growth mindset understand that with time and effort, their ability to learn the material will increase. On the other hand, a student with a fixed mindset will attribute their failures to their own abilities. They view learning as a product rather than a process, where the answer is right or wrong and if they get it wrong, they are simply not able to learn the subject... middle of paper... ..development and Health. Canadian Psychological Association. 49, 182-185. DeKock, A., Sleegers, P., & Voeten, M. (2004). New learning and classification of learning environments in secondary education. Review of educational research. 74.141-170.Dweck, C.S. (2000). Theories of the self: Their role in motivation, personality, and development. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Freitas, A., Gollwitzer, P., & Trope, Y. (2004). The influence of abstract and concrete mindsets in anticipating and guiding the self-regulatory efforts of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology.40. 739-752.Ricci, MC. (2013). Classroom mindsets: Building a culture of success and success in schools. Texas: Prufrock Press Inc.. Yeager, D., & Walton, G. (2011). Social-psychological interventions in education: They are not magic. Review of educational research. 81 (e.g. 2) .267-301.