University of North Texas 
Growth Mindset Faculty Focus
- Student Success Areas
- Academic Advising
- Overview for Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Inclusive Curricula and Pedagogy Review Process
- Chairs
- Learning Center
- Office of Academic Integrity
- Office for Strategic Retention Initiatives
- Small Grant Program
- Ricco Ethics Scholarship
- Student Perceptions of Teaching
- Thank a Teacher
- Growth Mindset - Faculty Focus
- Inclusive Curriculum Review Working Group
- Student Retention Resources
Best Practices: What growth mindset strategies lead to a sense of belonging and self-efficacy for students?
Professional Development: What UNT professional development opportunities support growth mindset, retention, and student wellbeing?
Syllabus Development: How can the syllabus be used as a tool for creating a sense of belonging for students?
Mindset Assessments: How can beliefs about the malleability of intelligence, status of learning, and attitude about struggle and failure be measured?
Research: What studies provide a measurable effect of mindset on student success?
Literature, Podcasts, and Videos: What literature and audio-visual resources support growth mindset theory?
Best Practices
- A Growth Mindset Approach to Establishing Expectations: Ensure your messaging conveys a consistent growth mindset throughout the term.
- Growing the Growth Mindset: Best Practices for College Instructors: Learn Stanford University's tips and takeaways for mindset pedagogy.
- Meaning Makers: Cultivating Growth Mindset Environments: Uncover successful strategies for implicit and explicit mindset communications from three separate controlled studies.
- Mindset Kit: Select online lessons and practices for fostering adaptive beliefs about learning.
- MIT Teaching + Learning Lab: Growth Mindset: Model growth mindset in the classroom by employing practices recommended by MIT's Teaching + Learning Lab.
- Cultivating a Growth Mindset: Learn how a culture of growth mindset within organizations is the foundation for resilience and persistence from UNT System's Organizational Development and Engagement.
- Fostering a Growth Mindset in Higher Education: Develop an understanding of mindset and the impact it can have on students and faculty.
- Growth Mindset: Sample ideas for encouraging student success through activities that encourage a growth mindset.
Syllabus Development
- The UNT Syllabus: Access UNT Course Syllabi Requirements Policy and the DSI CLEAR Syllabus Template. The syllabus template is a development tool that provides a model for presenting with standards and procedures with growth mindset language.
- First Day Toolkit: Utilize the Student Experience Project's First Day Toolkit to revise syllabi and other communications students receive to create support systems that foster a positive student experience. Apply practical tips for developing syllabi by completing the Student Experience Project's online module.
Mindset Assessments
- Measure mindset beliefs by accessing:
- Mindset Assessment from MindsetWorks
- The Mindset Survey from Positive Psychology Practitioner's Toolkit
Research
- Learning Environments Research Brief: Read “Leveraging Mindset Science to Design Educational Environments that Nurture People's Natural Drive to Learn.”
- Growth Mindset in the Classroom: Read "Towards Fostering Growth Mindset Classrooms: Identifying Teaching Behaviors That Signal Instructors' Fixed and Growth Mindsets Beliefs to Students"
- Growth Mindset Post COVID-19 Pandemic: Read "Rethinking the Multidimensionality of Growth Mindset Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Framework Proposal"
- Motivation & Engagement: Read "Teachers With a Growth Mindset Are Motivated and Engaged: The Relationships Among Mindsets, Motivation, and Engagement in Teaching"
Literature, Podcasts, and Videos
- Read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success to weed out false growth mindset messaging and apply growth mindset to the culture within classrooms and groups within an organization.
- Listen to The Psychology Podcast: The Latest Science of Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck to discover the effect of teacher mindset on mindset effectiveness.
- Watch Carol Dweck's TED Talk and/or Talks at Google: The Growth Mindset to learn the positive and negative consequences of both mindsets.
- Read Challenging Mindset: Why a Growth Mindset Makes a Difference in Learning and What to Do When It Doesn't to examine how mindset theory works and explore the relationship between mindset and grades.