Instilling a Growth Mindset in Students Grades K-12

This online course for teachers is designed for K-12 educators who wish to explore the concept of growth mindset in detail. Teachers will be introduced to the concept of growth mindset and will understand how it differs from its counterpart — fixed mindset. This course takes teachers through the entire process of instilling a growth mindset in students as well as teaching students strategies to become confident risk-takers. Specific topics include learning how to make mistakes meaningful, the importance of meaningful feedback during the learning process, the role that growth mindset plays in both literacy and mathematics, and how to integrate the mindset model in a data-driven classroom. Teachers will learn how to ask better questions so that students are supported in the development of their social-emotional skills and soft skills as they work through productive struggle. Teachers will also learn how to model through think alouds in order to model a growth mindset attitude.

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Professional Development Institute
Lindsey Maranto
949-263-4931
lindsey@webteaching.com

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