Just believe
I believe that your mindset develops with your experience in life. There are four Academic mindsets: growth, fixed, belonging and believe in yourself. A growth mindset is where you know that you can grow your brain like a muscle. The traits of this mindset are that you embrace challenges, learn from criticism and that you find lesson and inspiration in the success of others. A fixed mindset is the opposite. Saying that your brain can’t grow the traits of a fixed mindset are avoiding challenge, feel threatened by others success and giving up easily. A belonging mindset is more social. It’s a feeling that you are a part of something. The flaws in the educational system led me to create a fixed mindset toward my abilities to learn, which has hindered me as a student both in high school and college. When I was in elementary school I had a hard time doing my homework I’d always say, “Mom it feels like my brain is on vacation.” To translate I’d get distracted easily; my mom had me tested. The test found that my brain process slower than the other kids and that I had Attention-Deficit Disorder or ADD. The school put me into an extra class in middle school that had less than ten students and three teachers. In that class we worked on homework and got help for my other classes. I didn’t study or take notes and I still got good grades. I was able to breeze through class and homework. That lead me to believe that I was smart without trying. When I entered the 10th grade that’s when things started to get hard. It was then, that I found out I had an IEP and my teachers held me at a different standard and I had a class just to do homework. I started to think that I was not good enough for school and I avoided work. I believe that class hindered me because it helps so much that I’m never did homework at home instead I sat home played games and watched tv. I had gotten lazy and I didn’t develop a process for work. I do think the School System (SS) needs to be changed. In The Perils of “Growth Mindset” Education: why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system By Alfie Kohn he states that a lot of schooling consists of students cramming facts into short term memory. Kohn citizens Dweck and others for saying if you have a positive mind then you can be successful. “…… to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir”. ( Kohn) In short he does not like how schools are now generic, conservative and are a competition for students and we don’t learn. I now see the faults in the way that I was taught. I do think Kohn is right in his argument school needs to change. Now that I am in college I am struggling so mush so that I feel that I am standing still. My accommodation letter only allows for extra time on tests and I only can use that in my math and maybe my art history class. Don’t get my wrong I loved my high school they were a help to me, but I feel that I didn’t learn what I need to learn to live. What’s mainly wrong with SS is that it’s not practical. In Don’t Stay In School by Boyinaband he talks about how his childhood was wasted. I do agree that school doesn’t teach us practically. For example, we are not taught how to do our taxes or even basic first aid. He also says it’s not the students but the parents who are to blame. Boyinaband’s response is “If you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then.” Meaning that if we had schools with a class about child development, students may have a better understanding of what it takes to raise a child. A growth mindset is where a person believes that their intelligence can be developed. Someone who has a growth mindset wants to learn, values effort and responds well to setbacks. I do think I’m starting to have this mindset. In the beginning of this semester I was taking three classes: Math, English and Art. Two classes took up a day and In my art class I needed the full week to do my projects. I am an art major but because the art class took up time that I didn’t have I had to drop it. I do think it was the right thing to do because I can now concentrate on my studies. Even now I told my mom to hide one of my major distractions. Going forward I’m going to finish my last English class and not do Art classes until my general education is done. It may be a setback but I need to do learn this at the right pace for me. Along with a growth mindset I’d like to have belonging. In conclusion I think I need to work on getting a new mindset. I need to work on developing a process for homework. I do think Kohn is right in his argument school needs to change. Now that I am in college I am struggling. My accommodation letter only allows for extra time on tests and I only can use that in my math and maybe my art history class. The test found that my brain process slower then the other kids and that I had Attention-Deficit Disorder or ADD. The flaws in the educational system led me to create a fixed mindset toward my abilities to learn, which has hindered me as a student both in high school and college. lost of self
I was with my mom, dad and older brother going on vacation for a few weeks in Florida. My brother didn’t go out much so I was surprised and happy when he came with us. We were visiting my mom’s side of the family. My mom is the youngest of 7 sisters. Most lived in panama but I do have one aunt and cousins that live in Florida. After the flight my dad get the car we rented, and drove to the hotel. I had thought this was a normal vacation visiting family, but little did I know my dad I had a surprise. That surprise would change my life. My dad had put me in a horseback riding camp which I went to for a week. I was happy. On the first day of the camp I saw there was a lobby was a glass case with pictures and trophies on display. The whole building was made out of wood with window in the back showing the forest. They gave me boot, helmet from the front desk and gave me a tour. There were a lot of stables, which seemed like a maze for the eight year old self. I had tried several horses but I that pick out the horse named bunny. His coat was white with black spots. He loved to bite my boots. I learned a lot about horses. They showed me how to adjust the saddle, how to feed and brush the coat and to stay in the horse’ line of sight. I made a few friends during the week. I learned how to ride and how it felt with the wind in my face and seeing the blurs of green and brown go by as I rode along. It was a lot of fun. We practiced half a day, mornings, for the week. We did a small meeting and then go to the ring. The rest of the day was spent with my family. my aunt carol and my cousins Lucia and Dalys, they are very fun. Lucia and Dalys are both doctors like most of my mom side of the family. On Friday there was a contest my mom and dad came with me. My brother stayed at the hotel I only remember him coming to the camp with us once, after a lot of bugging, He is twelve years older than me and liked to stay in the hotel and play video games. I had a few minutes to talk to my friends as we prepare. Just like always I get my black boot, helmet and saddled up bunny. The ring was decorated with fake flowers and had a judges’ table with three people sitting on it. As soon we lined up the contest started. I was doing just fine and then something went wrong. Somewhere between here and there I could only hear voices and only see blackness. The next time I woke up I was on the couch in the ranch house and one of my friends was sitting next to me. I had asked my mom that happened mostly because I didn’t remember, she said bunny got spooked and I had fallen. The ribbons were awarded, then we left. I can’t remember the rest so I’m going to speak(type) for my mom. While driving to my aunt’s I threw up. It was then that my mom, being a nurse, told my dad to go to the nearest hospital. On the ride there I felt sleepy, but my mom was with me in the back seat and she told me to stay awake. At the hospital I got a CT scan of my head.” this was done for someone who suffered head trauma” (my mom). After the scan I was told I can finally sleep.” The hospital recommended I follow up with my primary doctor because there was something unusual about the CT scan” (mom). My ordered a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MRI showed I have a tumor in the center of my brain, near the nerves of the eye. If the tumor to grow I may lose my sight and I can have scizers. I was taught what symptoms to look for if it grows. The biggest symptoms are head ache. I now have to follow up with many doctors to monitor the tumor. The number of doctors has tripled I now have pediatric oncologist, pediatric neuro-opthalmologist, pediatric endocrinologist. The Pediatric oncologist specialized in cancer. She the one that orders everything. Although surgeons and radiation oncologists may treat cancer in pediatric patients, the term 'pediatric oncologist' usually refers to physicians who have specialized in pediatrics and then received further training in medical oncology and hematology. This means that rather than using surgery or radiation therapy to treat cancer, pediatric oncologists typically use medications and chemotherapy. Pediatric neuro ophthalmologist is for my eyes. My doctors name is Grant T. Liu, MD, is a Pediatric Neuro-ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and holds the Raymond G. Perelman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. He’s the one doctor I don’t like the most because I hate the eye drops but I like him as a person. Pediatric endocrinologist is for my hormones. If a child has problems with growth, puberty, diabetes, or other disorders related to the hormones and the glands that produce them, a pediatric endocrinologist may treat your child. Pediatric endocrinologists deal with hormone disorders at all stages of childhood and the teen years. Thankfully the tumor has not grown in the twelve years. I now see all my doctors every two years. Oncology thinks its benign. Personally I think it effects my memory. The reason why I think It effects my memory because I can’t remember important date like birthdays or the names and faces of the students in my classes. For now my life is peaceful with nothing major wrong, but I always have to remember I can go blind and have to stop working on my art. This week someone thought my blogs were scary. This person was scary because I wrote about the antagonist. I bet this person don’t watch sprited away like that person said, maybe he will over the summer. This post will be my top 5 anime. This will be hard because I there is a lot of anime.
Number 1: Blue exorcist is my favorite anime of all time. Mostly because its nature vs nuture. Number 2: akame ga kill Tatsumi is a fighter who just got robbed by a pretty girl, but his luck seems to be looking up, as another pretty girl has taken him in. What he doesn’t know is that this girl is about to be visited by a family of assassins (including the girl who robbed him) and they might be the good guys, and be recruiting. Number 3: black cat Train Heartnet, also known as "Black Cat," was an infamous assassin for a secret organization called Chronos...until he abandoned that cold-blooded existence to live on his own terms as an easygoing bounty hunter. But is Train's past as far behind him as he thinks? Number 4 Fairy Tail Celestial wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a guild for the most powerful wizards. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu's not your typical hero - but he just might be Lucy's best hope. Number 5 Hana Yori Dango Although Tsukushi Makino is from a poor family, she attends an elite school for the super rich, where her life has become intertwined with the "F4," the ruling boys of the school, in a whirlwind of love and confusion! Next month will be amazing. School will be over soon, im going on vaction, getting a new game, a new season of miraculous ladybug lastly its my birthday month. As any student I want school to be over so that I can spend my time having a lot of fun. For my vaction we plan on going to Florida. Visiting my moms side of the family were probably going to celebrate my birthday there. When we go all I want to do is go to burger 21 they have all kinds of burgers some hot dogs shakes and cookies. The last time I was there I got a burger and a chocolate peanut butter shake, It all was amazing. I loved the shake I still talk about it to this day. It sad that I can only get it in Florida.
The new game is fire emblem echoes that I pre-ordered. It comes out on Friday the 19th which is four days before my birthday. I have been waiting for this game for months at least five. I plan on getting it as soon as the doors open, But if you cant know about it a tactical RPG. Miraculous ladybug is another teen age super hero show. It will be on Netflix hopefully that can translate it to English. The story is about a modern-day paris marinette and Adrien are two middle school kids with a difference: they are the chosen ones to save Paris from evil. Marinette transforms into Ladybug and Adrien becomes Cat Noir. But Ladybug and Cat Noir do not know each other’s true identity. Marinette is unaware that, beneath the Cat Noir costume nestles Adrien, her secret crush. Similarly, Adrien doesn’t know that Ladybug is, in actual fact, just Marinette - one of the girls in his class. Lastly my birthday is on 23 ill be 21 I may drink some. what im hoping for is camelon pens for art classes and personal use. That, burger 21 and FE echoes the only thing that can make next month better is if they can post new blue exorcist or my brothers can come with their girlfriends. |
Elisa Blow
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December 2017
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