Growth Mindset MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is a blended professional development course which teaches educators, principals and staff the foundation of a growth mindset and empowers them with the tools and resources to cultivate a growth mindset culture in their classrooms and school. It is a combination of a Moodle e-learning and face-to-face training. The course also delivers knowledge how to implement a growth mindset into feature lesson plans, learning routines, assessments and instructional tools.
Draft macro-structure:
- how to help students believe that their effort and learning strategies are the sources of their success and highlight the relationship between learning and “brain training;”
- how to reframe mistakes as learning opportunities and disassociate improvement from failure;
- how to use growth mindset language in giving instructions;
- how to encourage positive perseverance;
- how to set high, challenging but realistic expectations of students’ performance and communicating this to the students;
- how to break learning goals into smaller steps;
- how to give effort and process-oriented feedbacks;
- how to help students to develop positive self-talk;
- how to cultivate a sense of purpose and real-life learning.
