Learn from social and educational psychology in this one-part workshop on how instructors can foster growth mindsets in their students, and how that in turn can foster greater student motivation, achievement, and belonging. What factors hold back or push students forward in learning and performing the best they can? How do students react to successes and challenges? By the end of this workshop, participants will be prepared to:

• Understand the differences and relationship between growth mindset and sense of belonging
• Consider how students’ and instructors’ mindsets can impact student achievement and motivation
• Identify concrete strategies to foster a growth mindset and sense of belonging in students

Instructors

Emily Potratz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lauren Woods, University of Illinois at Chicago

Workshop Schedule

This one-session workshop meets online in Zoom on Thursday, October 23rd at 7-9pm Gulf / 11am-1pm Eastern / 10am-12pm Central / 8-10am Pacific/Arizona.

Audience

This workshop is for any educator interested in learning more about how to foster a growth mindset and develop a sense of belonging in their students.

Registration and Enrollment

No cap; registration opens on Monday, September 29th at 10am CT and closes the day of the workshop.
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Accessibility

If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Zoe Zuleger (zmzuleger@wisc.edu), who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:

• Using alt-text on images in reading materials
• Sending pre-session reminders to all students
• Sharing materials for synchronous sessions with students (slides, activity instructions, etc.)
• Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
• Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions

About CIRTL Programming

CIRTL Network programming is designed to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices to create undergraduate educational experiences that are accessible to all learners. Participants can explore our programming in any order, and to whatever extent supports your own teaching development needs and interests. To help participants understand what they can expect across all our programming, all CIRTL programming aligns with four broad learning goals; within those goals, programming might provide participants with an introductory, intermediate, or advanced learning experience.

This course supports the following CIRTL learning goals at an introductory level:

• Goal 1: Develop evidence-based teaching knowledge. See more Goal 1 programming.
• Goal 3: Cultivate teaching skills through reflective improvement. See more Goal 3 programming.