Shifting Your Classroom Culture from Traditional to Transformational

23/09/2025 21 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3
Shifting Your Classroom Culture from Traditional to Transformational

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Episode Synopsis

Based on the article Impact of Higher Education Culture on Student Mindset and Success by Apple, Jain, Beyerlein, and Ellis, published in the International Journal of Process Education (June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) https://www.ijpe.online/2018/culture.pdfThis insightful deep dive explores the subtle yet powerful impact of educational culture, contrasting traditional approaches with transformational cultures that actively cultivate student success in higher education, rather than merely managing it. Using a comprehensive framework, it reveals how your faculty mindset and daily practices are not just influential, but causal, directly impacting student mindsets and behaviors and offering immense power to mitigate conditional risk factors. By examining crucial aspects like academic challenge, cognitive complexity, learner ownership, and the student-faculty relationship, the discussion illustrates how intentional shifts—from 'making things easy' to truly empowering students through challenge, fostering deep understanding, nurturing self-direction, and building supportive mentorships—can lead to students becoming resilient, self-motivated, critical-thinking intellectual explorers. This is more than just adopting new techniques; it's about embracing a fundamental cultural shift that empowers every student to believe in their potential, discover their own strength, and become the architect of their own success, creating lasting ripple effects far beyond your classroom.