Title: Ready, Set, Grow: Fixed versus Growth Mindsets.
Presenter: Andrea Swayze
Date: 11/4/15
TLC Track: High Impact Online Teaching & Learning Practices
Synopsis: Does your online classroom and feedback promote a growth mindset in your learners? A growth mindset changes the way one views the basic beliefs about our self and abilities. A fixed mindset assumes success is based on inherent intelligence or skills, while a growth mindset posits one achieves success through effort and deliberate practice. Failures are no longer viewed as a setback, but rather a learning opportunity. Challenges, setbacks, and constructive criticism are seen as sources of information toward self-development. The growth mindset change is based on over thirty years of research on intelligence and motivation by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Research has shown that learners who have been instructed using a growth mindset have a marked improvement in their academic achievement and learning habits. Each participant will have an opportunity to self-evaluate their own mindset as an introduction. During this session, the vocabulary and interpretive process underlying the growth mindset will be covered using a multimedia format. Specific strategies and practices for immediate use in the online classroom will be provided and discussed.