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ENG 100 Assignments: Academic Mindsets Argument Draft #2 There are many students who have different mindsets compared to others. There are two main mindsets which lead to debates merits of education, one of them is Growth and the other is Fixed mindset. In the article “Teachers, Parent Often Misuse Growth Mindsets Research” by The Hechinger Report", it mentions a person named Carol Dweck, who has claimed that students who have Growth mindset performs better than those who have Fixed mindset. In a similar article, the perils of “Growth Mindset” education: […] by Alfie Kohn, who says that we should fix the system instead of focusing on growth and fixed mindsets. He believed that Growth mindsets isn't a best way to make students performed better. In my opinion on this debate, I think that Carol Dweck makes a strong point about growth mindsets help students learn new things by embrace mistakes and never give up, but Mr. Kohn also points out that students need to obtain the right attitude in order to accomplish things instead of focusing on mindsets. Growth mindset help students explore and expand their knowledge even further where the universe is waiting. A growth mindset and fixed mindset have influenced in many ways. However, growth mindsets continue help me to conquer challenges that the world wait for me such as improving my English skill and embraces my mistakes for the better. Căn a person be allowed to have both mindsets? Because I’m a person full of curiosity, I want to learn new things that are often neglected in the world, but sometime there is certain thing that I don't want to do. Mrs. Dweck said that “people who have Growth mindset often ask questions and try new things” instead of doing the same thing every day, which isn’t working as they expects. In contrast I am not a person who like to ask questions frequently because I want to try on my own before I ask thêm. In my high school career, I had so many questions and problems that I wanted to ask other, but instead of asking questions, I need to answer them before I asked. So would I be considered a Fixed mindset? It is because I don’t ask questions frequently? Jame Clear pointed out that "The benefits of a growth mindset might seem obvious, but most of us are guilty of having a fixed mindset in certain situations. That can be dangerous because a fixed mindset can often prevent important skill development and growth, which could sabotage your health and happiness down the line". I’m not a person who are afraid of challenges, even though I don’t know what am I doing, but I’m actually like to try and embrace the results whether it’s good or bad. Life has different destinations for everyone, and human beings always have their own goals. It’s like the paths which students take, each student has their own path that was predetermined for them. Being a student is like a traveler, the one who goes on a journey to discover the new places. In the beginning of their journey, they have to decide which path they should take: The path of knowledge or illiteracy. Sometimes I feel very excited about new things and places that I’m going to face, but sometimes I feel scared of getting lost in a mindset of unfamiliar things. At a young age, I had to leave my home, my community to go to a new place. My middle school friends almost we're not here. I was living in an entirely new environment when I moved to this country. I remembered imagine myself being a student facing many challenges: Everything changed about me ever since I moved to the States. I had to overcome challenges such as adapting to the American culture, learning the English language and getting through a day without any unwanted attention. Perhaps the most difficult challenges I had to went through were mainly from school. I was a shy kid and I was afraid of everything. The thoughts of losing my accomplishments, not being able to master English, failing classes in school and being isolated in a place where no one looked like me dominated my entire life in school. I was living with constant fears and struggling to find out who I really am on the inside. It took me a long time to take up the courage to ask myself this question “should I stay contained like this forever or go out of my comfort zone and explore?” Thanks to that question, I was able to develop a new mindset on my life. If I stop myself from trying new things, then I would stay in the same old spot for the rest of my life. I realized that I should go out and explore new challenges that life has offered so I could make mistakes and those mistakes will help me become a better person. Marelisa says that "the “growth mindset”–promotes the taking on of challenges and resilience in the face of obstacles. People with this mindset believe that effort is what makes you smarter". I remember when I was in high school, I have many struggle learning English because it is the most difficult subject for a migrant like me. However, growth mindset helps me embraces it and have me continue with my learning. According to the article(mindsetworks), it pointed out that “When students have a growth mindset, they take on challenges and learn from them, therefore increasing their abilities and achievement”. Growth mindset help me improve my learning because of my motivation of becoming a better English speaker. My goal to speaks as good as an Englishman to help my family with every day’s life, such as medication, translation, and etc... Even though,I failed to achieve that goal of better speaker but I will continue to learn more. If I only try harder and finds my mistake that I made, someday eventually I would get it. "In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don't necessarily think everyone's the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it"--Carol Dweck, Stanford University Sometime I feel like I’m in fixed mindsets at some point because in my math class at my high school, I tend to think I’m smart enough to have a good grade in the test but I’m not. My teacher usually asks students to answer problems as he lecturing, but I’ve never been able to answer it because I’m afraid of my answer will be incorrect. According to mindsetkit, “[Student are] more concerned with proving that they are smart or hiding that they're not. And that means they tend to avoid situations in which they might fail or might have to work hard.” People with fixed mindset tend to think that they are smart enough to do things, but they are afraid of challenges, which they could make a mistake out of it. However, I’m more of growth mindset because I like to try new things and I’m not afraid, even if it incorrect but I embraces it. We could learn a few things from our mistake because it is the way to lead us to reach our goal in life. Once you’ve done it and know what you did wrong, you could actually avoid the same way had happened to you and try the different way next time. It more like practicing, when you doing it wrong, you keep repeating until it become absolutely right. Looking back, it has been 6 years since I left my country, I had the opportunity to become friends with foreign students who had the same experience as me during my ELL years. I learned to adapt new things and changes in life. I became more involved with my community which in turn granted me a best friend that motivated me to do things that are “impossible” in my life. I felt fearless and happy for not giving up on trying things. I believe that I can do anything if I set my mind to it. School had not been my final destination on my journey but it was a foundation that laid out the path of discovering new places, where I could grow and improve my mindset. Work Cited Jame, "How Your Beliefs Can Sabotage Your Behavior" Behavioral Psychology, Self-Improvement. May 10, 2017 Marelisa, " Succeed by Cultivating a Grwoth Mindset" May 10, 2017 https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/23/teachers-parents-often-misuse-growth-mindset-research-carol-dweck-says http://www.salon.com/2015/08/16/the_education_fad_thats_hurting_our_kids_what_you_need_to_know_about_growth_mindset_theory_and_the_harmful_lessons_it_imparts/ https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/ https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents/learn-about-growth-mindset/research-how-mindset-affects-learning
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Who did I work with to compose my academic mindset project? Was this a good approach?
I wrote my academic mindset project alone. it was really hard because ive been thinking for weeks to have an idea to write on my project. It wasnt good approach to be honest because i may not wrote the right things on my projects. Its like im not stay on track on academic mindset. What was the most difficult part of my writing process? Why? What did I do to overcome the obstacles? The most difficult part of my writing process is what to write on my projects. I was really stuck for a week because of it. When did I write this project? Good approach? I finished it on the last minutes because I had some thinking to do. It wasn't a good approach, I could have write it while im thinking, but i didnt choose that way, so. Where did I write this project? Good approach? In my room. Yes it was a good approach because nobody was there to distract me Why did I choose to write about my chosen topic? At first im not even sure what to write for my projects. It was a randomly idea from my mind, so i used it as my academic mindset. How will I adapt/revise my writing process for future revision of the academic mindset assignment? There are many students who have different mindsets compared to others. There are two main mindsets which lead to debates merits of education, one of them is Growth and the other is Fixed mindset. In the article “Teachers, Parent Often Misuse Growth Mindsets Research” by The Hechinger Report, it mentions a person named Carol Dweck, who has claimed that students who have Growth mindset performs better than those who have Fixed mindset. In a similar article, the perils of “Growth Mindset” education: […] by Alfie Kohn, who says that we should fix the system instead of focusing on growth and fixed mindsets. He believed that Growth mindsets isn't a best way to make students performed better. In my opinion on this debate, I think that Carol Dweck makes a strong point about growth mindsets help students learn new things by embrace mistakes and never give up, but Mr. Kohn also points out that students need to obtain the right attitude in order to accomplish things instead of focusing on mindsets. Growth mindset help students explore and expand their knowledge even further where the universe is waiting. A growth mindset and fixed mindset have influenced in many ways.
Can a person be allowed to have both mindsets? Because I’m a person full of curiosity, I want to learn new things that are often neglected in the world, but sometime there is certain thing that i don't want to do. Mrs. Dweck said that people who have Growth mindset often ask questions and try new things instead of doing the same thing every day, which isn’t working as they expects. In contrast I am not a person who like to ask questions frequently because I want to try on my own before I ask them. In my high school career, I had so many questions and problems that I wanted to ask other, but instead of asking questions, I need to answer them before I asked. So would I be considered a Fixed mindset? It is because I don’t ask questions frequently? I’m not a person who are afraid of challenges, even though I don’t know what am I doing, but I’m actually like to try and embrace the results whether it’s good or bad. Life has different destinations for everyone, and human beings always have their own goals. It’s like the paths which students take, each student has their own path that was predetermined for them. Being a student is like a traveler, the one who goes on a journey to discover the new places. In the beginning of their journey, they have to decide which path they should take: The path of knowledge or illiteracy. Sometimes I feel very excited about new things and places that I’m going to face, but sometimes I feel scared of getting lost in a mindset of unfamiliar things. At a young age, I had to leave my home, my community to go to a new place. My middle school friends almost were not here. I was living in an entirely new environment when I moved to this country. I remembered imagine myself being a student facing many challenges: Everything changed about me ever since I moved to the States. I had to overcome challenges such us adapting to the American culture, learning the English language and getting through a day without any unwanted attention. Perhaps the most difficult challenges I had to went through were mainly from school. I was a shy kid and I was afraid of everything. The thoughts of losing my accomplishments, not being able to master English, failing classes in school and being isolated in a place where no one looked like me dominated my entire life in school. I was living with constant fears and struggling to find out who I really am on the inside. It took me a long time to take up the courage to ask myself this question “should I stay contained like this forever or go out of my comfort zone and explore?” Thanks to that question, I was able to develop a new mindset on my life. If I stop myself from trying new things, then I would stay in the same old spot for the rest of my life. I realized that I should go out and explore new challenges that life has offered so I could make mistakes and those mistakes will help me become a better person. Looking back, it has been 6 years since I left my country, I had the opportunity to become friends with foreign students who had the same experience as me during my ELL years. I learned to adapt new things and changes in life. I became more involved with my community which in turn granted me a best friend that motivated me to do things that are “impossible” in my life. I felt fearless and happy for not giving up on trying things. I believe that I can do anything if I set my mind to it. School had not been my final destination on my journey but it was a foundation that laid out the path of discovering new places, where I could grow and improve my mindset. In this world, human is really curious creature who have two different mindsets. One of them is growth mindset, and the other is fixed mindset. Both have different kind of mind: People who have growth mindset tend to seeks something new to learn, they embrace mistakes that they made and get improve. Fixed mindset is slightly going to the opposite way, but not quite, they think to themselves that they’re smart enough so they won’t challenge themselves, perhaps they’re not familiar with new things. In the article Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) by The Hechinger Report, it tell the information about of what Carol Dweck had claimed toward the students. She has mentioned that parents shouldn’t praise their kids to get them excited after they did something really awesome. It is because when parents praise their kid too much, their failure in the future might impact their life. She also mentioned that people who have fixed mindset will stop trying when they see something aren’t familiar with them. In a similar article The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn) by Alfie Kohn, the author himself claimed that fixed mindset aren’t the problems of student’s education. He claimed that we should change student’s attitude rather than worries about fixed mindset or growth mindset because those have been led by the teacher instead of learning to achieve things by themselves. After I read both articles I have thinks that growth mindset have a bigger chance to move forwards in life. It tend to seeks many challenges so you can earn knowledges.
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