Practical strategies for fostering children’s growth mindsets for learning and wellbeing.

What is the Mindset Matters online course?

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There is more to learning than cognitive ability, curriculum and instruction. It is now acknowledged that developing children’s growth mindset for learning supports achievement and wellbeing.

FACT: Research has found that those students who have a growth mindset for learning are more motivated and achieve more (Dweck, 2016).

FACT: Providing feedback for effort rather than talent and natural ability reinforces a growth mindset.

FACT: Students with a growth mindset are more adaptive, self regulated and self determined (Dweck, 1999).

FACT: Mindsets can be changed (Yeager, 2019).

FACT: Recent reports recommend that developing a growth mindset is a key factor to enrich every element of a student’s life and future career for the 21st century (Department of Education and Training (Australia), 2018; Education Council, 2019; OECD, 2019).

Your instructor:

Dr Fiona Boylan is a lecturer and researcher in Early Childhood Studies in Perth, Western Australia. She has 25 years of experience teaching and leading in early childhood settings across the early years of school. Fiona’s research centres on developing children’s metacognitive skills to enhance their learning capabilities and agency toward learning. In particular, her PhD researched the implementation of Carol Dweck’s mindset theory to foster children’s growth mindsets in the early years context. Fiona has presented and published her research nationally and internationally as she seeks to support educators to foster a growth mindset culture in early learning centres, classrooms, and schools. She shares the power of growth mindset and neuroscience wherever she goes and is learning all the time as a mum, educator, author, speaker, and leader. Her wish is for children to embrace challenges as opportunities, setbacks as lessons, and effort as the path to mastery.

Course Curriculum

The course consists of 4 modules:

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