Course Overview

Gifted and Talented (GT) students often face challenging curriculum that requires significant effort, determination, and resilience. Your goal to help your GT students persevere and to meet the high expectations of your classroom can be supported through Growth Mindset strategies. This online course provides you with the resources, strategies, and methods to foster Growth Mindset in your GT students. You will design an action plan for your classroom, develop an additional resource to support your plan, and analyze research to support implementation in the classroom. The course ends with you designing an implementation plan designed to ensure you are successful incorporating the lesson concepts, ideas, and resources into a future lesson.

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At a Glance

Approximately 45 hours
Access Time: 365 days
3 PDUs
Graduate Level Professional Development Credit
$380
No additional materials required

Program Highlights

Online education

100% Online

All coursework delivered fully online, so you can balance work, life, and study.

Standards

Graduate-Level PD Credits

Earn graduate-level professional development credits to support salary advancement and professional growth. Check with your school or district for approval before enrolling.

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Fast, Flexible, and Ready When You Are

Enjoy instant access, self-paced study, and an easy-to-follow, template-based course format.

Course Objectives

  • Develop Growth Mindset over 3 areas of classroom communication
  • Integrate Growth Mindset strategies and procedures into your daily lesson plans and classroom routines
  • Design assessment and assignments using Growth Mindset strategies
  • Build an expository unit plan for use in the classroom, along with a supporting resource
  • Analyze and defend an article on how these ideas apply to the classroom
  • Plan, reflect, and report on implementation progress using a Classroom Implementation Plan

Course Topics

  • An Introduction to Growth Mindset
  • Growth Mindset Snapshot
  • Teacher to Student Communication
  • Student to Peer Communication
  • Student to Self Communication
  • Assignment Modifications

Course Syllabus


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Program Partner

This course is offered through University of Massachusetts Global’s School of Extended Education in partnership with Model Teaching.

What are Graduate-level Professional Development Credits?

Graduate-level professional development credits are not part of a degree program but instead are primarily used for professional advancement such as salary increment steps and recertification. Students should seek approval from appropriate district officials before enrolling in these courses.

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