Description
Nurture your equity journey with NAPE’s Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student™, Realizing Potential with Mindset, and Inspiring Courage to Excel through Self-Efficacy self-paced online courses.
*Note: Please allow up to 3 business days to receive access to the course material. If you have any questions or concerns, email learn@napequity.org for assistance.
Audience: Educators, Counselors, Advisors, Administrators (NOTE: the theories, principles and strategies are useful for K-12 and post secondary, however many of the examples focus on a secondary setting.)
Length: ~1-2 hours per course
Certificate: Upon completion of each course, you will be able to print certificates of completion to provide to your institution’s human resources office for evidence of continuing education.
Micromessaging to Reach And Teach Every Student™
Overview: Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student™ is a research-based, professional development program to increase educators’ awareness and understanding of the effect subtle messages and unconscious bias can have on student learning, participation, persistence, and engagement. Through interactive and reflective activities, this unique program provides participants with an awareness of the power of micromessages, which include looks, gestures, tone of voice, and the framing of feedback that subtly yet powerfully impact our culture, classrooms, and the individuals within them. Participants will obtain a set of simple tools and strategies to address micro-inequities and improve their classroom culture.
Objectives: After completing this module, participants will be able to:
- define the six types of micromessages.
- define micro-inequities and micro-affirmations.
- recognize implicit biases as they relate to micromessages.
Realizing Potential with Mindset
Overview: Based on the work of Dr. Carol Dweck, Stanford University social and developmental psychologist, Realizing Potential with Mindset focuses on educators’ capacity to reevaluate and transform their approach to understand their own behavior and reactions to feedback and how that personal self-assessment can then impact their students. By reflecting on and analyzing their own mindset, participants will gain the skills to reframe their understanding of their students and classroom community as a whole.
Objectives: After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Identify behaviors associated with fixed and growth mindsets
- Articulate the benefits of a growth mindset for yourself and for students
- Apply strategies to promote a growth mindset
Inspiring Courage to Excel through Self-Efficacy
Overview: NAPE defines self-efficacy as “the belief one holds in their ability to perform a specific task or achieve a specific goal.” Students who have higher self-efficacy are more likely to have higher persistence, interest, and achievement in meeting challenging goals. Inspiring Courage to Excel through Self Efficacy challenges educators to create more equitable learning environments and in turn encourages students’ self efficacy by developing a keen understanding of factors affecting students.
Objectives: After completing this module, you will be able to
- Differentiate between self-efficacy and related terms such as self-esteem and self-concept
- Identify the four sources of self-efficacy
- Describe how educators can help students use strategies to build their own self-efficacy
- Select and apply strategies to support self-efficacy in specific situations