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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.
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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 threated by others success and you give up easily. A belonging mindset is more social. It’s a feeling that you are a part of something. The last is just as it sounds you believe that you can do well. My mindset in my early years was a fixed one. As long as I can remember school was easy for me. I didn’t study or take notes and I got good grades. I was able to breaze through class and homework. When I entered the 10th grade that’s when things started to get hard. It was than 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 was shocked. I thought I was normal. I started to think that I was not good enough for school and I avoided it. However because of great friends who where in my classes and teachers my mindset changed to one of belonging. I started to go to class and ask my teachers and friends questions and asked for help. More and more I grew and then I started to want to be challenged. Now that I’m older I realized that it was easy because I was being taught the subject but wasn’t really learning. Now that I’m in college I know that I have a growth mindset. 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” 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 arugment school needs to change. In Don’t Stay In School by Boyinaband he talks about how he’s childhood was wasted. What I agree with is that in schools we are not taught pratically. For example, we are not taught how to do ours taxes or even basic first aid. He also says its not the students but the parents who are to blame. Boyinaband’s responds it that is “If you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then.” Meaning if we need to talk to kids about how to parent earlier. In Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research by Carol Dweck ,a psychology professor at Stanford University, says that the parents need to be more careful when praising children and if done poorly the child will develop a fixed mindset. Dweck wants you to praise the effort, tell your child to try harder and that you as the parent well keep a positive mindset. What Kohn thought Dweck was saying was to praise the work alone that wrong. What Dweck is sayed is to praise the effort alone is useless when there is no progess. What you want to do is praise the effort in child’s process and strategies. I worked with the help of my older brother. I had email it to him. I do think it was the right approach. My brother helped with spelling and saw the thing that I had missed. The most difficult part in my writing process was getting the words out of my head and organizing. Other teachers have say that I have good idea but I always forgot the sentence that I was typing. I don’t know why this is happening maybe I just need to train my brain more. I need to find a way to fix this maybe write all my ideas on paper and then have my mom type and print what I said; then I re-type it. I started the 22th it was not a good approach but life happened. I also had a lot on my mind. I did this in the basement of my house. I think it was an better approach this time. Because I didn’t hear our naberiors kids were quiet. So this time I don’t have be out of the house. I choose to write about your real life experices molded your mindset. I think this is true because I has had all 4 of the mindsets. I had dinner before I did this, I was also playing music lastly I was taking breaks in between.
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In order to be successful in life you have to work hard for what you want. Nothing worth having comes easy. When I enrolled at DCCC the staff made me feel very welcome and I had this feeling that everything was going to work out. My first semester was great I had breeze through my classes(I have math two electives). My second semester I had started my art classes. I went into them thinking that it will be like my other classes boy I was dead wrong. I had gotten some bad grades and now I’m douting myself. Is what im doing wrong? Im I talented enough? I wasn’t doing well in some thing I love. I remember my older brother drawing with me in his bedroom. The douts I have are now starting to affect my school work. I do the best I can be my art is not good enough? No I can do it I just need to believe in myself. But I cant waste time ill give it a few more semesters and it I don’t do well than ill change my major.
Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn)
“Kids tend to fare better when they regard intelligence and other abilities not as fixed traits that they either have or lack, but as attributes that can be improved through effort.” the psychologist Carol Dweck used a series label “incremental theory” to describe the self-fulfilling belief that one can become smarter. Rebranding it more catchily as the “growth mindset” allowed her to recycle the idea a few years later in a best-selling book for general readers. He talks about grit and how schools making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. Carol dweck is a professor at Stanford university has become “a cult figure in education and parenting circles”. She research a way to boosting student motivation. Dweck says kids with what she calls "fixed mindsets" stop trying when confronted with a challenge because they've convinced themselves that they're not good at math or writing or whatever the subject is. She believes too many students are hobbled by the belief that intelligence is a fixed trait and argues that adults can, instead, help foster a "growth mindset" – the belief that the brain is like a muscle that can grow stronger through hard work. Dweck theorizes that parents' well-intentioned praise contributes to the formation of unproductive fixed-mindset thoughts. Parents and teachers say that Dweck's work to mean that they should praise a child's effort. Effort, Dweck says, is only one route for a student to make learning improvements. If a student doesn't have strategies for solving a problem, or the necessarily skills, or the steps for completing an assignment at his fingertips, all the effort in the world might not help. |
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