261Waterloo Street, #3-14, Waterloo Centre, Singapore 180261, Fax No: 63374261, Phone: 63389201
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Singapore ASCD is proud to include Dr Ong Ai Choo to our pool of facilitators for Teacher’s
Professional Development. Dr Ong has more than 25 years in teacher education and
educational staff development. She was assistant professor at the National Institute of
Education; associate professor at Hong Kong Institute of Education, acting head of Learning,
Teaching and Technology Centre, and head of Outcomes based Unit, HKIED; and
educational development specialist at Singapore Polytechnic.
Now an Education Consultant, Dr Ong conducts workshops for teachers and students in
Singapore and Hong Kong, and was part of an international consultant team to BrancoWeiss Institute, Israel, in the area of social-emotional learning to youths at risk Dr Ong’s
teaching and research interests are in thinking skills and social emotional learning. She is
also author and co-editor of the book, Teaching Strategies that Promote Thinking.
Growth Mindset and Intrinsic Motivation:
Unleashing Potential for Learning
14 & 15 November 2013
(2-day workshop)
Dr Ong is presenting the above new workshop on a very important topic of developing students’
growth mindset. To develop 21st Century skills, it is imperative that students develop a mindset
that enables them to take on challenges and value efforts. We can help students how not to be
deterred by setbacks but to be resilient.
Read about the Growth Mindset (“The Effort Effect,” March/April 2007) and download an article
by Carol Dweck in ASCD’s Educational Leadership September 2010:
www.ascd.org/publications/.../sept10/.../Even-Geniuses-Work-Hard.aspx
Why Growth Mindset?
Workshop Details
World-renowned Stanford university professor, Dr Carol Dwek, and her team, in decades of
research on achievement and success, have made a ground breaking discovery about the power
of our mindset. When students have a growth mindset, they enjoy a heightened sense of
confidence and competence, demonstrate significant improvement in their grades, and become
motivated, self-regulated learners. Directly related to this, Professor Edward L Deci, University
of Rochester, and colleagues have identified three keys that drive human motivation beyond the
traditional carrot-and-stick approach, that have tremendous implications for the ways teachers
motivate students and ignite their passion for learning.
Objective
This workshop introduces participants to mindset theories and their applications to classroom
practice. Participants will also learn and share how they can move students along the extrinsicintrinsic motivation continuum based on the Self-Determination theory.
For whom?
All educators who are want practical tools on how to help students to be resilient and be the
best that they can be.
What you will learn!!!
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The intelligence debate: Two views of mindsets.
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Where mindsets come from.
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Inside the mindsets of successful vs. unsuccessful learners
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Strategies to facilitate a mindset change
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Speech act: the tool you cannot ignore
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How teacher’s behaviours and beliefs support or hinder growth mindset of students
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How to to nurture a growth mindset classroom environment
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Three key elements of motivation: A Self-Determination Learning Perspective
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Strategies for awakening motivation in your students
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Instructional activities and learning tasks that tap into students’ intrinsic motivation
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Planning for growing mindset and motivation through course design: A spiral curriculum
approach.
Duration: 2 days (8.30 am to 4.30 pm)
2-day Course Fee:
$260 for ASCD members or $300 for non-ASCD members
(Fee includes tea, lunch and course materials)
Venue:
Academy of Singapore Teachers
2 Malan Road S109433
Application
Please complete the attached form and fax it to 63374261 or email it to ascdsing@gmail.com
attention to Norman.
For enquiries please call 91385667.
Closing date of applications: 4 Nov (Monday).
Registration Form
Workshop
GROWTH MINDSET & INTRINSIC MOTIVATION:
UNLEASHING POTENTIAL FOR LEARNING
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