EDUU 9350: Developing a Growth Mindset in the Primary Classroom

Course Overview:

Discover practical ways to develop a growth mindset for your students. It must first begin with you! You will begin to establish having a growth mindset in order to develop the same in your students. Growth mindset is an effective approach to helping your students reach their full potential. Your students will learn that their brain has limitless potential to learn. This course will offer you an opportunity to instill gratitude practice and create monthly lesson plans for developing a growth mindset in your student.

Course Objectives:

This course will give student opportunity to:

•  Reflect on your own mindset and develop a plan for personal development of a growth mindset.
•  Explore how attitude and effort play a role in developing a growth mindset.
•  Discover ways to teach students about growth mindset
•  Create monthly lesson plans for developing a growth mindset in your students.

Course Relation to CCS or other Professional Standards

Standard I: Using Knowledge of Child Development to Understand the Whole Child

Standard II: Partnering with Families and Communities

Standard VI: Managing the Environment for Development and Learning

Standard VII: Planning for Development and Learning

Standard VIII: Implementing Instruction for Development and Learning