Management Education / Formation en gestion (MED)

Individual students usually hold a believe about their own intelligence and ability. A teacher also develops individual student level believes about their intelligence and ability. These beliefs have significant implications for students’ learning and achievement. Researchers have distinguished two categories of assumptions or believes concerning students’ intelligence. They might have a fixed mindset that regards intelligence as a fixed characteristic: some pupils are intelligent, and that’s that. A growth mindset, on the other hand, holds that intelligence may be developed through a variety of methods, such as effort and proper instructions. Studies demonstrate that having a growth mind-set is especially important for students who are labouring under a negative stereotype about their intelligence and abilities. Adopting a growth mind-set helps those students remain engaged and achieve well, even in the face of stereotypes. The proposed workshop is aimed at creating an awareness among the participants about the importance of creating a growth-mind set context in teaching and then, through various in-session activities, prepare the participants as how to inculcate a growth-mindset culture in their teaching courses/classes.

Presenter:
Mahbubul Alam, Faculty of business and Economics, Algoma University
Jody-Lynn Rebek, Faculty of business and Economics, Algoma University

Coordinated by the Management Education division