Applying the mentor mindset to undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistant professional development in a laboratory course.

ABSTRACT: Practitioners of the mentor mindset in academic settings maintain high standards while providing strong support in and outside the classroom. They encourage the growth mindset by being motivating and transparent, reducing stress, and providing feedback that can help intellectual growth. The mentor mindset is the foundation of the professional development program for undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistants in the largest introductory biology course at Cornell University (Investigative Biology). The professional development program helps these teaching assistants gain pedagogical skills that they can immediately apply in the inquiry-based laboratory course. They provide feedback to each other and help with course improvement. Due to this professional development program, they

SUBMITTER: Sarvary MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369370 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature