Her Inner Thoughts In the article Brainology, Dwek believes in the research that is ongoing about how our brain is always changing with the experiences we have throughout our life span. One of her main claim is that this is an important time for our minds to learn. What and how much does these really impact the students’ drive and their learning process she ask? In collaboration with her graduate students they are off to conduct research to be able to answer these types of questions. They have collected enough results to show where students believe what their intelligence level were at and where it stopped. With this being done the results ended with her main focus that there were two type of mindsets that existence either your growth or fixed.
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Dweks found that teachers had no idea that there were these two types of mindsets and there could be a number of different outcomes. Joshua Aronson, along with a couple of his colleagues all had the same results and conclusions. Their research and also Dweks both found positive and negative effects with stereotyped students. Growing up I was told over and over by my teachers that the limits of my abilities were endless and whatever goals I set for myself I could reach them. I guess you can say they weren’t expecting I would end up pregnant at the age of 15. Once the news got out I was than encourage to transfer out to another school where I would focus more on taking classes to prepare on learning the proper ways of caring for a child while receiving my diploma. I’m not saying the result of it was a negative thing but the talks about attending colleges or getting a good job were out the window. At this point in my life I have fallen into the negative effects of stereotype students becoming just another static adding to the high teen pregnancy rate in Tulare County. I believed that if I could just get my diploma; while getting on assistance for the rest of my life that I would be okay because I already knew what it felt like to be low-income. I now look back at this to try to wonder why or how I could let myself get to a point in my life to believe I was not able to …show more content…
With more new experience that is shown that we must teach our children and praise a different way so they can learn the correct coping skills they need when facing a hardship. At the age of 18 I was kicked out of the house and I had no place to go. Luckily I had a worker that was able to get me into a housing program for youth to live rent free while learning independent living skills. There I instantly become close to the director of the program and he took me under his wing because he believed in me. Shortly after I got involved in volunteering in the mental health field and was able to gain confidence. He constantly made sure I was staying out of trouble while during everything I needed to do to become self- sufficient. If it wasn’t for him I know I wouldn’t be at the place I am today. I was working on my credits at the adult school, volunteer full time and attending some general ed classes at COS; while also caring for my son and his sports he had at that time. I didn’t want to be another young Hispanic girl receiving assistance from the state for the rest anymore. He started to open my eyes to a whole different world that I was now no longer a fixed mind but learned that the limits again were endless. I was able to graduate the 2 year program, get my first apartment, car and diploma
Dweks found that teachers had no idea that there were these two types of mindsets and there could be a number of different outcomes. Joshua Aronson, along with a couple of his colleagues all had the same results and conclusions. Their research and also Dweks both found positive and negative effects with stereotyped students. Growing up I was told over and over by my teachers that the limits of my abilities were endless and whatever goals I set for myself I could reach them. I guess you can say they weren’t expecting I would end up pregnant at the age of 15. Once the news got out I was than encourage to transfer out to another school where I would focus more on taking classes to prepare on learning the proper ways of caring for a child while receiving my diploma. I’m not saying the result of it was a negative thing but the talks about attending colleges or getting a good job were out the window. At this point in my life I have fallen into the negative effects of stereotype students becoming just another static adding to the high teen pregnancy rate in Tulare County. I believed that if I could just get my diploma; while getting on assistance for the rest of my life that I would be okay because I already knew what it felt like to be low-income. I now look back at this to try to wonder why or how I could let myself get to a point in my life to believe I was not able to …show more content…
With more new experience that is shown that we must teach our children and praise a different way so they can learn the correct coping skills they need when facing a hardship. At the age of 18 I was kicked out of the house and I had no place to go. Luckily I had a worker that was able to get me into a housing program for youth to live rent free while learning independent living skills. There I instantly become close to the director of the program and he took me under his wing because he believed in me. Shortly after I got involved in volunteering in the mental health field and was able to gain confidence. He constantly made sure I was staying out of trouble while during everything I needed to do to become self- sufficient. If it wasn’t for him I know I wouldn’t be at the place I am today. I was working on my credits at the adult school, volunteer full time and attending some general ed classes at COS; while also caring for my son and his sports he had at that time. I didn’t want to be another young Hispanic girl receiving assistance from the state for the rest anymore. He started to open my eyes to a whole different world that I was now no longer a fixed mind but learned that the limits again were endless. I was able to graduate the 2 year program, get my first apartment, car and diploma