Current Movements in Higher Education – Growth Mindset, STEM Opportunities, and Career Readiness
Join Professor Elayn Martin-Gay, University of New Orleans, to discuss how to best convey skills and concepts to our students. We’ll explore some of the recent movements, including Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, STEM vs. non-STEM opportunities, and Career Readiness vs. College Readiness.
Professor Elayn Martin-Gay, University of New Orleans
In this session, we’ll discover new ways to combine promising movements with proven pedagogy to help our students succeed. We’ll discuss how in this time of change, we are increasingly presented with new methods, techniques, trends, etc. regarding how to best convey skills and concepts to our students. We’ll also explore some of the recent movements, including Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, STEM vs. non-STEM opportunities, and Career Readiness vs. College Readiness.
About the speaker
Professor Elayn Martin-Gay
Elayn Martin-Gay firmly believes that every math student can succeed. She has taught math at the University of New Orleans for more than 25 years and earned numerous teaching awards along the way. Early in her teaching career, Martin-Gay developed a series of highly acclaimed lecture videos to support developmental math students in their quest for success. These videos formed the foundation for the fourteen arithmetic and algebra texts she would author.
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