Title: How to Help Children Develop Mastery Orientation
Headings: How Parents Can Help Children Develop Mastery Orientation
How Parents Can Help Children Develop Mastery Orientation
What Sets Students With Mastery Orientation Apart
What Students With Mastery Orientation Believe
How Parents and Teachers Can Encourage Mastery Orientation

Content: Psychologists have said that mastery orientation is more positive than performance orientation because it fosters a sense of resilience in children, allowing them to work through failures or setbacks. 2 ﻿ Mastery orientation can help students of all grade levels -- from elementary school to college. How Parents and Teachers Can Encourage Mastery Orientation
Mastery orientation can be encouraged through positive parenting techniques and parental involvement in education. Parents and teachers alike can nurture mastery orientation in students by giving children tasks they care about and tasks that are challenging but attainable for them. The goal should be for students to master a certain skill or lesson rather than for them to earn a certain mark or score for performing the task. Teachers can encourage mastery orientation by changing classroom structure and giving children the learning strategies necessary to become self-motivated instead of performance-motivated. Teachers should praise a student's effort when they excel at a lesson and offer constructive criticism when their work shows room for improvement. Educators should especially heap on praise when students complete challenging tasks. Teachers can inform students that mistakes are part of the learning process. They should also let students know that academic success is first and foremost about effort.