Carol Dweck's 'Power Of The Word Not Yet'

While reading Ken Bain’s book “What the Best College Students Do” of the five different types of students he describes, I feel like I fall under the label of one having mediocre grades but achieving success. I make good grades, however I do not necessarily believe my grades always reflect my hard work, determination and effort put in, similar to his theory on false hope in standardized testing. Throughout my school career, I have consistently made A and B grades. I can remember only one C grade, which was a quarter grade, and very disappointing, but a lesson learned. At the same time though, and as Bain helped me realize through his text, grades are not everything and making a C is not something that is going to kill me; there is simply more to school than a letter grade. In fact he points out through most of the 1800s schools only used two grades, pass or fail. As seen nowadays, schools have since adopted the letter grade system.

“ In praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry, the author has her point that flunking students is a way that can help students do better in school. Flunking students can be helpful in getting them motivated and lead to success in their education. Students who don’t want to put in effort because they are lazy, a troublemaker, or good student that gets just passed along to next grade deserve to fail. Is it not going to be easy for students to be successful in their education. The students need to try hard to get to their goals. The students have to pass through failure to have the motivation to do better in school. If more students go through the teacher’s threats of failing, the students will want to put in the effort to able

People believe that in order to be Smart, you have to become Smart, in other hands the brain works like a machine, the more you teach it, the more it learns. Usually students with a Growth Mindset are most likely to Succeed in Society. The changes that should be changed in Schools is that Students should be Congratulated on how hard they’ve worked on an Assignment etc.,“Wow… that’s a really good score, must of Worked hard” (25). The Researcher has Experimented the students with Test to see how they do and how they react to it. College students may pick up this Article to Study for Child Behavior, Counselors may also read this Article to get an ideal on how and why students Fail or Succeed. Schools should complement on how they're doing their work for it can motivate them, “We found that intelligence praise encouraged a fixed mindset more often than did pats on the back for effort” (25). Comparing the Two Articles “Marita’s Bargain” shows how they got their Intelligence unlike this article which states why students Fail or Succeed. After all, the students should be Praised for their efforts and not their

In Chapter 7 of the novel “Doing School”, Denise Clark Pope, a Stanford Alumni and Senior Lecturer at Stanford, describes Faircrest High School functions and how the upsides and downsides present themselves throughout the school’s system and how they “do school.” Based on Pope’s claims “Doing school” is when students are not engaged with learning and they don’t commit themselves to school or the values that the school has. Pope observes the school’s five “best and brightest” students and their behaviors over one year to discover what these young people do to get “good grades, win awards, pursue extracurricular interests, do community service, and help teachers and administrators.” She uncovers the truth behind achieving great success in school: the students are thought to be hard working, intelligent, and

Matthew Misiura is a math teacher at Susquehanna Community High School. Mr. Misiura explains that he always pushes for “content mastery” in his math classes. However, Mr. Misiura’s teachings are more than an average algebra and precalculus class. Mr. Misiura pushes for students to learn about the real world. He pushes for students to always work to their full potential. In a year in his classroom, I not only learned precalculus and trigonometry, but I learned how to view situations from a different perspective. Some students, when given back a test in which they failed, would cry, act childish, or simply complain. Mr. Misiura was able to reinforce the belief that the only way to learn is to make mistakes. He often stated that, if you already

When I first read the email about the summer reading assignment Mindset, my expectations about what the book would be about completely differed from what it actually was. My thoughts were that it would only pertain to school and how to stay positive while going through college. After just five pages, I realized this books usefulness would stay with me for my entire life. When introduced to the fixed and growth based mindsets, I felt as though the growth based mindset defined my academic career that allowed me to get into college, while the fixed mindset sadly resonates in my social life. Around the end of the first chapter, Dweck brings up four questions that pertain to how easily intelligence can be changed or if it is fixed your entire

The author views it by telling some stories of other people and their experiences with getting bad grades and how you can still bounce back. In the story it says, "I'm ashamed I failed Precalculus, but I decided to take it again and I got a B-plus".(Paragraph 7)This quote from the text tells you that failing encourages you to do better next time and also makes you wanna work harder next time. Another quote from the text to support the first quote is, "I am now taking calculus, and even though I don't love it, I'm glad I pushed through it". (Paragraph 7)This quote is telling you that getting one bad grade encouraged this kid to try his hardest and try not to make that grade again.

In Mary Sherry’s essay “The Praise in the “F” Word” she discusses a technique that should be used to motivate students to do better in school. Sherry argues that the threat of failure motivates a student to apply themselves in school in order to succeed. Students who have a healthy fear of failure tend to be motivated to do better because something they desire is a risk. Many high school teachers have also awarded students with a passing grade although they actually deserved a failing grade simply because of pity. The fear of failure is the best tool to use on students in order to help them succeed and to push them for a brighter future.

Through all my 19 years of life I’ve only learn one thing, which is that when students tell themselves “I can’t do it” they will obtain failure but in the other hand if students are constantly reminding themselves “I can and I will do it” they will obtain success. Dweck made it clear on her article: “It is through effort that people build their abilities and realize their potential” in other words students need to challenge themselves for them to obtain more than what they expect, and with effort and a positive attitude everything is possible. My mom always tells me “dream big and you will be big” and I always keep that in mind. In other words if one day I want to be a billionaire, I will try my best to do so, and I will accept all of the challenges in order to get to my goal, and I understand that it will be a hard path but it doesn’t matter how hard and complicated it will be I can do it and I will do it.

Kathleen Cleveland compares each child to a mosaic “created from the many ‘pieces’ of how he is, how he learns, and what he need in order to succeed in [education].” (p. 17) The most effective grading practices, according to those in favor of no-zero policies, provide accurate, specific and timely feedback designed to improve student performance therefore an educator should do everything possible to ensure that all students learn the academic criteria of their curriculum. Selby and Murphy argue that “low grades prompt students to withdraw from learning. To protect their self-images, many students regard the low grade as irrelevant or meaningless.” (p. 92) and the more students are led to focus on how well they’re doing, the less engaged they

" Jaime believes otherwise, and the students proceed to prove them wrong by finding the courage to separate themselves from societies expectations for failure and to rise above through hard work and dedication. Their rigorous study sessions and desire to learn pay off by receiving astounding scores on the AP test and reaching their goals. However, their toxic environment bites them again when the

This lesson was not just one of learning knowledge to have passing grades, it is a lesson about learning from others that have gone before and lived experiences that we will never know creating an understanding for the reader that it is about understanding what life is really about. Fiction and Nonfiction characters from the course have given inspiration to the reader about life lessons on education, research, poems, and living life to the fullest. The characters all the way from Victor Frankl, and John F Kennedy leading the innovation of being full of inspiration and the ability of sheer will to keep pushing forward and to do something about their lives. As well about short stories about

The video “Graduation… now what?” spoke about Angela Lee perspective on what the key to success is for your future. She talked about students not learning a particular subject in school. She says you can learn the material if you work hard and long enough. Angela believes that what we need in education is much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective. In education they measure best in I.Q, but that’s not how we measure success. If you want to be successful, you need to have grit. Angela says “grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals” you need to live it like a marathon not a sprint. You can’t believe that failure is a permanent condition. Always work hard even when you feel like giving up.

Dweck was studying how people cope with failures by watching how students deal with hard problems, in this situation, puzzles. The first ones given to the students were fairly easy but the next ones were hard. As she observed how the students coped with the challenges she saw something that really surprised her. Dweck describes how one ten-year-old boy, when presented with the hard puzzles, pulled up his chair, rubbed his hands together and cried out, “I love a challenge!” Another student looked up with a pleased expression and said, “You know, I was hoping this would be informative!” Dweck was shocked by their reactions, she had always thought one either coped with initial failure or didn’t. She never thought anyone would be so excited about it. Dweck was so inspired by these children that she needed to dig deeper. Previous to this experiment she thought people were either smart or you weren’t, failure meant you weren’t. These children proved to her that this wasn’t the case, they proved intellectual skills could be improved through effort. They weren’t discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. This section of Mindset made me think of the chapter nine topic, The Achievement

During the speech Rowling states “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default”. This quote means that in life a person needs to be able to make mistakes in order to learn from them and grow. By making mistakes an individual can discover aspects about their character that they did not know before. Failure can teach one lessons such as