Beyond Content
Strategies for Fostering Effective ‘Learning Mindsets’ Among Students
This web site introduces the notion of learning mindsets as powerful determiners of how people approach learning situations, how they act as learners in the midst of such situations, and ultimately what they take away with them.Faculty are viewed not only as supporting student mastery of discipline-based content, but as influencing (whether we know it or not…and for better or worse!) the learning mindsets that their students practice and come to develop over time. These learning mindsets in turn influence, more or less effectively, the kind of life-long learners RIT graduates become.
Included here to fuel your lingering is a brief explication of learning mindsets and some guiding assumptions, an article providing an in-depth orientation with supporting research, a description of a recent Faculty Discussion Series about learning mindsets (sponsored by RIT Teaching & Learning Services), and an inventory of some instructional strategies used by faculty of various disciplines throughout RIT to foster effective learning mindsets in their students.
