Faculty Reading

Equips educators and students with the tools to foster lifelong learning and adaptability. Drawing from research on growth mindset and talent development, it offers practical strategies for enhancing 21st-century skills and guiding students to reach their full potential through choice, practice, effort, and unlimited growth.

Delves into Carol Dweck's theory of mindset, addressing why mindset interventions often fall short in schools and offering effective strategies for implementing growth mindset practices. It provides a nuanced approach to fostering a growth mindset in educators, students, and classrooms.

This concise guidebook on desirable difficulties is designed to be a resource for academics who are interested in engaging students according to the findings of peer-reviewed literature and best practices but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The book also includes chapters on teaching first-year and at-risk students to embrace this approach, on negotiating student resistance, and on using this approach in teaching online.

Outlines how to create powerful, student-centered learning experiences using research-backed strategies and a structured approach. It includes updates on active learning, online teaching, and handling student resistance, helping educators design more impactful courses.

David Shenk challenges the myth of genetic giftedness, presenting compelling scientific research that reveals greatness is within everyone's reach. He argues that our potential is shaped by the interaction of our genes and external factors, and that we have the power to unlock this potential.

This guide teaches you how to build resilience, develop grit, and foster a growth mindset to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. With practical tips and actionable advice, it helps you conquer self-doubt and self-sabotage, empowering you to tap into your inner strength for long-term success.

This book explores how recent research on the brain, cognition, and culture deepens our understanding of learning and how that knowledge can improve teaching and assessment. With a strong focus on translating theory into practice, it offers educators actionable insights to design more effective learning experiences for both children and adults.

Builds on earlier research to incorporate recent findings about how learning is shaped by brain development, sociocultural contexts, and the structure of learning environments. It offers educators and researchers a deeper understanding of the diverse factors that influence learning across the lifespan, with implications for designing more effective, inclusive, and personalized learning experiences.

Offers practical, research-informed strategies to help teachers foster growth mindset, grit, and self-regulation in students. Through classroom activities, assessment tools, and ideas for home-school communication, the book supports educators in creating a resilient, challenge-ready learning environment that promotes perseverance and continuous development.

Introduces a flexible, cross-curricular strategy called structured SELf-questioning, which helps teachers and students develop academic, social, and emotional intelligence together. By building metacognitive habits into daily instruction, the book offers a practical way to reduce classroom stress and anxiety while strengthening self-awareness, critical thinking, and responsible decision-making.

This book presents practical strategies to help learners overcome difficulties with math, science, and other challenging subjects by building flexible thinking, using both focused and relaxed modes of learning, and embracing mistakes as part of the process.

Argues that college fosters a growth mindset by helping students build confidence, resilience, and adaptability through meaningful relationships, learning opportunities, and personal effort—skills essential for lifelong success in a rapidly changing world.

Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be open to change in order to achieve fulfillment and success.

This book aims to deepen the conversation about the noncognitive factors that significantly impact student success. Not just a book about how to support the development of learning mindsets such as belonging, growth mindset, and resilience in students, it will also include strategies for college personnel to consider as they create initiatives, programs, and assessments to develop these noncognitive factors.

In The Student Mindset, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organize and execute successful learning.

A complete, accessible, evidence-based guide to better teaching in higher education, with helpful advice on active learning, interactive lecturing, self-regulated learning, the science of learning, giving and receiving feedback, and so much more.

This accessible guide shows how teaching students simple, research-based learning strategies can dramatically improve their academic performance. Focused on metacognition and motivation, it offers practical, easy-to-implement methods that help students take ownership of their learning—often with transformative results in just one class session.

Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college and secondary school, the author introduces her readers, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners.