• Think of a time when you had to do something you did not want to and were successful. How did you navigate that challenge? By what means did you transition from, “I don’t want to do this.” to “I want to do this.”? Where did you find the motivation? How did you stay engaged?  Public speaking or class presentations was always a challenge…

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• What is the purpose of higher education? Depends on the student.  At least I feel it should be.  Higher Education is providing students a broad range of experiences to enrich student’s life experiences, primarily through academics, but the social and emotional learning and growth is such a big part of the overall college experience.  Le…

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As support staff, I have an introductory video students are required to watch as part of our “orientation”. In this video, I acknowledge how challenging the students immigrant experience is in NYC as a college student. I encourage them to seek me out for any type of support throughout the semester and reinforce “there are no stupid questions!!”.…[Read more]

As support staff, helping students explore how their own personal immigrant story has a before, during and after. Helping them idenitfy the part of their immigrant experience that connects to their current learning experience as a part of their bigger story. encouraging them to use their writing assignments to explore these connections as a…[Read more]

As a support staff to educators, when I am giving presentations to students on “Motivation” and “College Success”, I always incorporate my personal growth mindset challenges I faced in higher education and encourage them to identify their motivational factors that helped them overcome past challenges.

I would love to explore helping students set SMART goals with their educators at the beginning of the semsester (or without). This seems like a very concrete tool that can give them ownership over their learning.

As a support staff to Educators and students, I try my best to acknowledge the pressure and stress that comes with a fixed mindset. I encourage both parties to examine negative self-talk and negative messaging that contributes to this fixed mindset that can be very discouraging and unmotivating. Acknowleging where they are coming from and what…[Read more]

Having humility, flexiblity and openness to feedback from students when they are not feeling supported. Leading by example, sharing your experiences with positive growth mindset outcomes.

I think my strongest characteristic of experiencing a growth mindset has been my openness to contructive criticism. I did not find it discouraging, but as a learning opportunity to improve. If anything it would encourage me to try harder given the feedback I had to work with. I was able to incorporate the criticism into self-awareness and…[Read more]

Cultivating a growth mindset as an educator seems to be a great tool to model that the educator is a human being wiht flaws that can learn from others. Educators who present with an “I am always right” mentality may hinder students’ opportunities to share in the classroom if they are questioning or in oppostition to the Eductor.

Love this quote!  I totally agree though that the word “failure” is too loaded and subjective.  There is way too much emphasis on it and we should start looking at more appropriate “growth mindset” terminology.  Setbacks is a good one to consider for a start.