Rosetta Irving
English: 100 Assignment #2: Academic Mindset Argument Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) Dr. Carol Dweck stated "As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls," said Dweck. "Many educators misunderstand or misapply the concepts.” She herself realized that what she had said had been misunderstood. She is not saying we should praise effort alone. The steps in which you take getting to the results are just as important, if not more. Dr. Dweck along with Dr. Lisa Blackwell did a study on several hundred 7th graders over the course of two years and found the children with the growth mindset did way better then the kids with the fixed mindset. The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn) Whereas Alfie Kohn is saying it’s the entire system that need fixing. He don’t think Dr. Dweck method is going to go very far with students. Kohn said “As I’ve explained in books and articles, the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; it’s more about controlling than encouraging.” This is him doing exactly what she said. He misunderstood her point completely. She wants parents and teachers to praise strategies results not just effort. I personally believe in the growth mindset. I thought I wasn’t going to go back to school after three children. I was fixed on believing that I had chosen my path and education wasn’t on that path. As a child I had big hopes and dreams of becoming some type of big deal. It all flashed before me when I started having children. Derek Sivers give a speech on why we need to fail. I strongly believe failure is what pushed me to go back to school. If I didn’t feel like I was failing I wasn’t going to get up off that couch and get serious about school. My third child had just been born and I was home with him and we didn’t have a reliable baby sitter so I couldn’t go back to work after my 12 weeks was over. My income was hanging by its last leg. I was home and there no other way of bringing in extra income, so my husband was pretty much working to pay bills. This was a huge eye opener for me not only did I feel horrible that I was working at a dead end job. I also felt bad that I couldn’t fully enjoy my time off with my child. Something had to change I had to set myself up for better and the only way I could do that was get back in school. Without a growth mindset I wouldn’t have seen this as an opportunity to grow. I could have looked at the situation from a fixed mindset point of view. I could’ve said that it was my job that needed to be changed and not me. “A fool is someone that tries the same thing over and over expecting different result”. I wanted better for me and my family so I had to put in the necessary work. I’m we all know Steve Jobs you know the co-finder of apple, yeah that Steve Jobs. As a kid he struggled in school. He dropped out of college after just six month. For money he sold coke bottles for five cents refund. He had a grow mindset and knew that he had to put in the effort to get the results. Josh Waitzkin said “the moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability we will be brittle in the face of adversity”. I believe what he’s trying to say here is that the moment you start to believe that your ability is tied to your success that’s when you will face failure.
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