Carol Dweck

be smart .¨These different beliefs or mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks ,and one in which students relish challenges and are resilient in the face of setbacks¨(Dweck ,2008). Three important factors in the type of mindset a student have are motivation, environment, and praise.…

Have you ever found the importance of an attitude before? In the short series of Growth Mindset, Mojo goes through the hardships of not believing that he is smart enough to continue school. Then his friend starts to help encourage him to not give up. Then, in the next short, Mojo's friend tells him about how mistakes are better than what he thinks. In the third short, they talk about how if you can't accomplish your challenge now, you're not bad, you just can't accomplish it yet. In the second…

Psychologist Carol Dweck has determined the effects of a growth mindset, when someone believes that they can be good at anything by having the ability to actually achieve their goal, and a fixed mindset, when someone believes that they are either good or bad at something based on their inherent nature. The cause of these mindsets is a bit like nature vs. nurture. One believes they are born with it and the other believes that they are able to change it. The big difference is that one mindset puts…

In the email to Dr. Herrera, the mother Linda Mitchell is asking to have her son 's math grade changed to avoid summer school. In the book Mindset by Carol S Dweck, It teaches the importance of the psychology of success. The text makes it apparent that George must learn a different type of mindset. The book talks about two types of mindsets and the teacher should encourage George to have a growth mindset as suppose to a fixed mindset. Dr. Herrera should not change George’s math grade from a F to…

opportunity to learn. Someone with a fixed mindset may let failure define them and react negatively with apathy, blame, excuses, and depression. Dweck’s research showed that when such people were taught growth mindset skills, their reactions changed (Dweck, 2006) According to Wormeli, recording student scores of “Fs, zeroes, and other indicators of failures” and “spending the day working on weaknesses, without identifying and using strengths” are practices that serve as de-motivators…

In reading Dweck’s research involving the two basic mindsets that shape our lives, I believe I fall into the fixed mindset majority of the time. One example of this is academically. If I were to do poorly on a test, I would only care about what my grade was instead of learning what I did wrong. In the article, she conduct a test with adolescents regarding both mindsets. She found that the effort-praised kids enjoyed working on more challenging problems as opposed to the ability-praised kids. I…

“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” (Dweck. 2015) inspires me to reassess my teaching style as a teacher and a parent. Positive reinforcement can be very helpful to boost a student’s morale, but parsing, if not done properly, can be detrimental to student’s mental development (Dweck.2015) Every child is different with his or her unique talents and capabilities. As explained by Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” , “We all exhibit different profile of intelligence and these are…

It also allows for the a child to learn from setbacks and if the child wished to correct said setbacks they would have a positive environment to purse that. Dweck stated: We found that students’ mindsets—how they perceive their abilities—played a key role in their motivation and achievement, and we found that if we changed students’ mindsets, we could boost their achievement. More precisely, students who believed their intelligence could be developed (a…

Risks are all about choices and that is what Dweck stresses about mindsets: you have a choice. “Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind”(Dweck, 2016, p. 16), Is there is a choice to be a learner or non learner? Dweck points out that one can become a non learner if they continue to have a fixed mindset. At an early age if children become afraid of failure because of being challenged they may become afraid of…

Here is why i believe it is important to have a growth mindset.I think it's important because having a growth mindset is a way better way of thinking because the ideas that you come up with are better than the original way of thinking.The brain is actually quite like plastic, and can be reshaped over time, forming new neural pathways. This has led neuroscientists to call this tendency neuroplasticity. There are three key things that you can do to develop a growth mindset: You need to…