The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
1. Summarize the information in the first three paragraphs of this text. Do it in 25 words or less. Johnathan was considered a brilliant student, his parents praised him for his smarts. Suddenly Johnathan lost intrest in school, his grades then began to ploment.
2. What does a “growth mind-set” focus on? Teaching chilren to use their brain through encourant of their failures.
3. Explain the difference between helpless learners (“fixed mind-set”) and mastery-oriented learners (“growth mind-set”). Fixed mind-set: When people have fixed traits and no desire to change their outcomes.
Growth mind-set: Teaching children t use their mond as a learning machine.
4. According to a mastery-oriented learner: “Challenges are energizing rather than …show more content…
Find one sentence in the article that could work as the thesis for the article. Write it (or copy and paste it) here. Students with such groeth mind-set, we predicted, were destined for greather academic success and were quite likely to outpreform their counterparts.
14. How do you know which type of learner (growth or fixed mind-set) you are? Answer these questions to help give you an idea:
a. Did you look at how long the article was before you started reading it? Did you view the length as an opportunity to learn something new, or did you view it as something you didn’t want to do that will simply just take up your time? I do scan the article to gage how much time and though process would go into the article, with hopes that I may learn something new
b. Do you read assign readings or simply skim them until you feel you know enough to write an answer? I read the assignments.
c. Do you cheat or give up on assignments that are hard? I do not give up or cheat.
d. Have you ever used the excuse: “I’m just not good at _English__(insert subject)___”? I have before.
e. Have you ever said about math, science, English or any other subject: “I’ll never use this in real
1. Summarize the information in the first three paragraphs of this text. Do it in 25 words or less. Johnathan was considered a brilliant student, his parents praised him for his smarts. Suddenly Johnathan lost intrest in school, his grades then began to ploment.
2. What does a “growth mind-set” focus on? Teaching chilren to use their brain through encourant of their failures.
3. Explain the difference between helpless learners (“fixed mind-set”) and mastery-oriented learners (“growth mind-set”). Fixed mind-set: When people have fixed traits and no desire to change their outcomes.
Growth mind-set: Teaching children t use their mond as a learning machine.
4. According to a mastery-oriented learner: “Challenges are energizing rather than …show more content…
Find one sentence in the article that could work as the thesis for the article. Write it (or copy and paste it) here. Students with such groeth mind-set, we predicted, were destined for greather academic success and were quite likely to outpreform their counterparts.
14. How do you know which type of learner (growth or fixed mind-set) you are? Answer these questions to help give you an idea:
a. Did you look at how long the article was before you started reading it? Did you view the length as an opportunity to learn something new, or did you view it as something you didn’t want to do that will simply just take up your time? I do scan the article to gage how much time and though process would go into the article, with hopes that I may learn something new
b. Do you read assign readings or simply skim them until you feel you know enough to write an answer? I read the assignments.
c. Do you cheat or give up on assignments that are hard? I do not give up or cheat.
d. Have you ever used the excuse: “I’m just not good at _English__(insert subject)___”? I have before.
e. Have you ever said about math, science, English or any other subject: “I’ll never use this in real