Summary
It is a fact that teachers have profound impact on student motivation but theories about the best practice and the pedagogical methods to achieve this vary. Instead of technical, teacher-centered, direct instructions that will suppress inquiry-based learning, our project builds on student-centered instructions to shape the students' mindset towards the belief that their own initiatives matter - a growth mindset. By helping students to develop a growth mindset, teachers make teaching - and learning - more effective. Growth mindset students request better feedback and have better learning orientation. They also show grit more often and thus persist longer.
This project is an upgrade of the previous successful project MindSet Go! - where the partners developed lesson plans based on a growth mindset. This project aims higher as we want to change the culture and learning environment at schools and also have an impact on parents. Teacher trainers and partner schools from Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and Reunion will cooperate. The geographical, social and economical diversity provides an added value as we will produce and provide material to address these factors also for social inclusion.
Recent PISA results show that students in our target countries are below average regarding growth mindset. Our project aims to equip teachers with the necessary tools for supporting students’ growth mindset but also to enhance the work with the entire school environment and its student support. Here, the stakeholders are principals, teachers and also parents.
1. The main goal of the MindSetGo! 2.0 project is to provide better continuous in-service training opportunities for teachers to increase their competencies and develop a growth mindset of their students. Our objective is also to foster a growth mindset school culture by increasing the number of teachers and principals using growth mindset in their practice. Moreover, focused work on a growth mindset will lead to higher teachers’ self-efficacy regarding their impact on students and higher students’ self-efficacy regarding their school work.
2. In order to achieve these objectives, we will ensure availability of free hands-on creative and inspiring material for developing a growth mindset of teachers, principals, students and parents.
3. Finally, our objective is also increased support and involvement of parents to enhance ways to cultivate a growth mindset in the families.
We address the need for developing students’ growth mindset holistically by offering accessible, free of charge, inspirational material in a European context:
(1) guidelines for a growth mindset school culture;
(2) a well-designed practice-driven and evidence-based MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for teachers’ continuous professional development;
(3) a digital hands-on toolkit collection for cultivating a growth mindset in the classroom;
(4) slides and a workshop design for parents;
(5) community of practice compendium with a collection of growth mindset projects with students.
Impact
The Intellectual Outputs developed in the MindSetGo 2.0 project will have an authentic transnational character. We will build on the well-functioning network project. At least 42 teachers and teacher trainers will be directly involved in transnational learning activities and contribute to the above mentioned project outputs. Hence, all outputs will be evidence based and practice driven following the bottom-up principles of innovation. Additionally, at least 60 students from 5 countries will cooperate in eTwinning school projects about a growth mindset. At least 200 parents will participate in growth mindset workshops for parents.
Incorporating our associated partners in the widespread dissemination on local, national, European and international levels will:
• raise awareness of a growth mindset,
• inform about teaching based on a growth mindset approach,
• engage in growth mindset activities and communication,
• promote the use of the project’s intellectual outputs.
Multiplier events will involve at least 240 local and 20 foreign participants from at least 100 different organizations. Engaging social media posts, active participation at conferences and proactive media exposure will reach more than 80.000 people across Europe who are key stakeholders in education.
A Pan-European Zoom conference for teachers across Europe will also be organized as part of the dissemination
The rich digital collection of high quality growth mindset material will have a sustainable impact on teachers, principals and other stakeholders involved in education. All the outputs will be available for free even after the end of the project. The MOOC will be part of an open education platform, hence widely exposed to our target groups, accessible and sustained in the long run. The partnership plans to continue its work on a growth mindset with future spin-offs such as partnerships between schools and for student mobilities.
This project is an upgrade of the previous successful project MindSet Go! - where the partners developed lesson plans based on a growth mindset. This project aims higher as we want to change the culture and learning environment at schools and also have an impact on parents. Teacher trainers and partner schools from Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and Reunion will cooperate. The geographical, social and economical diversity provides an added value as we will produce and provide material to address these factors also for social inclusion.
Recent PISA results show that students in our target countries are below average regarding growth mindset. Our project aims to equip teachers with the necessary tools for supporting students’ growth mindset but also to enhance the work with the entire school environment and its student support. Here, the stakeholders are principals, teachers and also parents.
1. The main goal of the MindSetGo! 2.0 project is to provide better continuous in-service training opportunities for teachers to increase their competencies and develop a growth mindset of their students. Our objective is also to foster a growth mindset school culture by increasing the number of teachers and principals using growth mindset in their practice. Moreover, focused work on a growth mindset will lead to higher teachers’ self-efficacy regarding their impact on students and higher students’ self-efficacy regarding their school work.
2. In order to achieve these objectives, we will ensure availability of free hands-on creative and inspiring material for developing a growth mindset of teachers, principals, students and parents.
3. Finally, our objective is also increased support and involvement of parents to enhance ways to cultivate a growth mindset in the families.
We address the need for developing students’ growth mindset holistically by offering accessible, free of charge, inspirational material in a European context:
(1) guidelines for a growth mindset school culture;
(2) a well-designed practice-driven and evidence-based MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for teachers’ continuous professional development;
(3) a digital hands-on toolkit collection for cultivating a growth mindset in the classroom;
(4) slides and a workshop design for parents;
(5) community of practice compendium with a collection of growth mindset projects with students.
Impact
The Intellectual Outputs developed in the MindSetGo 2.0 project will have an authentic transnational character. We will build on the well-functioning network project. At least 42 teachers and teacher trainers will be directly involved in transnational learning activities and contribute to the above mentioned project outputs. Hence, all outputs will be evidence based and practice driven following the bottom-up principles of innovation. Additionally, at least 60 students from 5 countries will cooperate in eTwinning school projects about a growth mindset. At least 200 parents will participate in growth mindset workshops for parents.
Incorporating our associated partners in the widespread dissemination on local, national, European and international levels will:
• raise awareness of a growth mindset,
• inform about teaching based on a growth mindset approach,
• engage in growth mindset activities and communication,
• promote the use of the project’s intellectual outputs.
Multiplier events will involve at least 240 local and 20 foreign participants from at least 100 different organizations. Engaging social media posts, active participation at conferences and proactive media exposure will reach more than 80.000 people across Europe who are key stakeholders in education.
A Pan-European Zoom conference for teachers across Europe will also be organized as part of the dissemination
The rich digital collection of high quality growth mindset material will have a sustainable impact on teachers, principals and other stakeholders involved in education. All the outputs will be available for free even after the end of the project. The MOOC will be part of an open education platform, hence widely exposed to our target groups, accessible and sustained in the long run. The partnership plans to continue its work on a growth mindset with future spin-offs such as partnerships between schools and for student mobilities.
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