Growth Mindset

A strong point in my life as a student is my growth mindset. This is an asset that I have acquired through perseverance and elders I have met that inspire me to give it my all. For example, one person who has inspired me and that I look up to is my ninth grade teacher: Ms. Seelye. The first day of her honors LA class made me very apprehensive because I wanted desperately to succeed. No matter how hard I tried though, on my first essay I received a D. Furthermore, this growth mindset is also demonstrated in my ap world history class with Mr. Bopp that was very difficult for me at first. My first assignment was a DBQ essay. I got a failing grade on my first paper since I had no idea the foundations for a good DBQ. In the two examples I listed,

A wise person said, “you don’t grow through success, you grow through what you go through.” The book, Mindest written by Carol S. Dweck, examines how the fixed and growth mindset leads to generating the motivations and conduct of individuals. This book is essential because it educates people on the notion of self- improvement in regard to learning, acquiring, and improving relationships with others as there is always room for progress. A growth mindset is very favorable in regard to improving love, family, friendships, and parenting relationships through many aspects. To begin, a growth mindset helps to enhance a relationship through forgiveness, respect, and self-improvement.

In the article, “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” by Carol S. Dweck, he states, “The students held hard work in high regard, believing that the more you labored at something, the better you would become at it” (23). What he means by this is that there are students who don’t try in academics or are naturally smart but just lose interest in school. The quote means that students who keep a goal in their mind, the better you will get at it. Dweck also states that “As we had predicted, the students with a growth mindset felt that learning was more important” (23). Again, the quote basically says that students who have a clear mindset on what goal they would like to accomplish, nothing would keep them from learning. Any student can be successful in their own ways, it's just about how they want their mindsets to be. If they have a growth mindset they can accomplish anything if they put themselves to

In the article “The Perils and Promises of Praise” the author, Carol S. Dweck, discusses the effects of using inherent praising on students. Dweck, a psychologist, conducted studies and research that led to the discovery that if someone praised a student for their intelligence, it would put the student in a fixed-mindset; if you praise the student’s effort, they would be in a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset is created in someone’s head when they are praised on their intelligence. People with fixed-mindsets believe that they are intelligent enough to where they should not put effort in anything else because if they're smart enough then they don’t need to try. People with growth-mindset believe in working hard and expanding their intelligence.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, Vol. 75, No. 1, 33-52 Copyright 1998 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 0022-3514/98/S3.00 Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance Claudia M. Mueller and Carol S. Dweck Columbia University Praise for ability is commonly considered to have beneficial effects on motivation. Contrary to this popular belief, six studies demonstrated that praise for intelligence had more negative consequences for students' achievement motivation than praise for effort. Fifth graders praised for intelligence were found to care more about performance goals relative to learning goals than children praised for effort. After failure, they also displayed less task persistence,

Dweck states that when she was in sixth grade she had a teacher who was so sure that people’s IQ scores told just how smart and trustworthy they were. She said they had one consuming goal- “look smart, don’t look dumb. Who cared about or enjoyed learning when our whole being was at stake every time she gave us a test or called on us in class?” (6). When my

Parents push their children to excel in sports and other activities, so why don’t they push them to excel in academics? Students’ View of Intelligence Can Help Grades, an article by Michelle Trudeau, talks heavily on this topic. Trudeau uses Psychologist Carol Dweck’s very compelling and factual arguments in support of this topic.

Many people have an incorrect stereotype about an idea that says children born with either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset since this idea determines whether a person is going to be successful or unsuccessful. Unfortunately, the researchers have discovered that the mindsets are changeable even for adults. However, changing from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset is beneficial because it helps students to reach their goals; moreover, the effects of this change could emerge in learning more, relishing challenges, and working hard.

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

Dweck has demonstrated that students develop a perception of intelligence and what it is. Some young people believe that intelligence is something that can change while others believe that intelligence is fixed and cannot be altered. Based on Dweck’s research, how a child perceives their intelligence level will affect how they perform in school (Dweck, 1986, 1988, 2006, 2010).

34). I chose this theory, as I have witnessed children being empowered and striving for their best after the educator facilitated them to build a positive mindset. Children learn from making mistakes and challenges, these come together and help mathematical thinking and cognitive development (Boaler & Dweck 2016, p. 13). The educator which I had, could have taught children in a more positive way and encouraged children to do their best, but also make sure they know everyone makes mistakes and there will not be penalties for

After reading Seal’s article which stated that Americans often thought kids are born smart while Asians more often believed that studying makes a person smarter, I was reminded my own personal beliefs on intelligence and I realized that I have thought people could get smart by exerting effort since I was in the last year of elementary school in Vietnam. Therefore, I empathized with Seal’s attitude that success and achievement are a result of working hard. I could remember that I got this attitude when I was in an important final exam which decided where my middle school was in the next year that depended on my score. In this exam, the math test was an extremely difficult test for every student because it had a strange math problem which my classmates and I had never studied before. At first, I had spent for 2 hour to solve this problem, but I didn’t succeed. So, I wanted to give up. However, I was worry about my score and thought about my mom, who hoped that I could get the high score enough to enter a famous middle school. Since I didn’t want to disappoint my mom’s wish, I tried to solve this math problem again and again and again. Eventually, I was successful to solve

Carol S. Dweck believes that there is a secret to raising a smart child, having a growth mind-set. Believing this she said not to boost your kids’ confidence or praise them for their good work else it would lower their ability to work harder or get bored of what they are learning because the student thinks they know it all. Though she ran an abundance of trails trying to state whether this was true or not. Dweck labeled two different kind of learners, helpless and mastery. Each person as a different way of learning; helpless believe that they are not in control of their own learning, mastery believe that only you are in control and that you grow in intellectual skills. The mind-set of these learners affect their problem solving abilities,

The experiment consisted of five separate studies. I chose to cite only three which were Study 1, 3a, and 3b. For clarification, the study documents two approaches to failure: Failure Enhancing and Failure Debilitating. Failure Enhancing is the mindset that failure is something positive and can teach valuable lessons to help improve upon while Failure Debilitating is the mindset that failure is negative and inhibits actual learning. The paper also documents two approaches to Intelligence: Fixed vs. Growth. A fixed mindset is the belief that intelligence is innate and cannot be further improved past a certain point. A growth

There are many ways a growth mindset can affect an individual. Commonly growth mindsets have a more positive effect on your life. The mindset you attain, growth or fixed, is dependent on the views you adopt from a young age. There are much more pros than cons for a growth-minded person compared to a fixed minded person. One of the ways growth mindset is more beneficial than a fixed mindset is that intelligence is developed over time. A growth mindset is associated with the desire to learn and the ability to continue despite an obstacle, whereas fixed mindset is associated with the desire to appear smart and will give up easier when faced with an obstacle. A few more differences between the two are growth mindset focuses on learning from criticism and is inspired by others' success, while fixed mindset ignores useful feedback and is threatened by others' success.