Mindset

Walk in song of the week: Fight Song

Topic

  • Attitudes Toward Learning Content

    • Description

      • Having the mindset necessary to approach and persist in learning content in a postsecondary environment

    • Next steps

      • Focus on ways your education adds value to your life and career

      • Take challenging courses to maximize learning

      • Get help early when challenges arise

      • Research "growth mindset" to learn how effort (and mistakes) can build intelligence

      • Ask for help from people other than the professor

      • When you get confused, go back and try to figure it out later

      • Don't give up!

      • When challenged, take a break and then come back and try a new method or approach

      • Ask instructor to clarify or help when you don't understand something

      • Ask other students for help when you don't understand something

Lesson

  • Video: Stuck on an Escalator

    • okay to ask for help but try to help yourself first

  • Rule Yourself video 1:31

  • Grit

  • Growth Mindset

    • Something you have said or thought about yourself in the past, or related to starting college, that was your fixed mindset voice.

    • Something you could say to talk back with a growth mindset voice.

  • Academic Integrity

    • Turnitin

  • Learn from failure