The missing component

Preparing students for
-life
-work
-global citizenship

Components for Deeper Learning:
-measurable
-teachable
-evidence-based

Components of Deeper Learning

• RIGOROUS CONTENT
• CRITICAL THINKING
• WORKING COLLABORATIVELY
• EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
• WHAT'S MISSING????

Searching for the missing component

You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are.

You are a kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that.

No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.

Academic Mindset

"The psycho-social attitudes or beliefs one has about oneself in relation to academic work."

Mindset= Motivator AND
Outcome

Academic Perseverance

academic Behaviors

Academic mindsets are:

4 Key Mindsets for Deeper Learning Outcomes

"I belong in this academic community."

"I can succeed at this."

"My ability and competence grow with my effort."

"This work has value for me."

Educators play a key role

Increasing student motivation to learn is ultimately contingent upon...

...creating a set of circumstances in which students take pleasure in learning...

...and come to believe that the information and skills they are being asked to learn are important and meaningful for them and worth their effort,

and that they can reasonably expect to be able to learn the material.

Academic Mindset

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2 needs
1 implement