What if there were one change that could increase the chances of students going into a higher education and achieve success. Showing students that they can stimulate could help increase their need to succeed. In the short story “Marita’s Bargain” written by Malcolm Gladwell Marita is viewed as a young girl who attends KIPP wants to succeed by giving up on her personal life to be focused only on school. In KIPP the students are exposed to their peers and even previous students academic achievement by having their pennants or Certificates of the university they attended all over the school “On the walls were dozens of certificates from the New York state regents exam, testifying for first-class honors for Corcoran’s students”(11). Surrounding
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Students must believe in hard work and effort instead of natural intelligence to increase their own success at Anaheim High school. The Secret to Raising Smart kids, Carol S Dweck’s article gives the reader a lot of reasons as to why students with a growth mindset outscore those the with a fixed mindset. The belief that students are born smart should change to everyone because really all it is is just determination “such children hold an implicit belief that intelligence is innate and fixed, making striving to learn to seem far less important”(21). Most students who have this mindset usually think that’s why even try because they won’t get the hang of it, but this is a lie because the only difference between those who think this and those who are “naturally smart” is grit. The students that have grit always tend to outscore others because they keep on pushing themselves for what they want and don't give up till they actually understand it or get what it was they wanted were striving for. When students also do something wrong on what they were doing, they just give up or try to avoid the problem because they don’t like that challenge unlike the others with grit use that as a mistake they can correct ”In particular, attributing poor performances to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame”(22). …show more content…
Some people might have more grit to do something than another any person because they just want that certain thing more. In “Kewaunan’s Ambition for AB” by Tough Paul the narrator remarks that people are different because some students don't mind having a B when they know that they could get a higher grade. Some students strive for something higher because they know that they can do it while many others just go for what are the minimum requirements ”There are students that do whatever is takes, but there are some that don’t put enough effort“(4). People just take the easy way out only doing the minimum because they know that eventually they will get what they need at the end of the day knowing that they could have been going above and
Students must believe in hard work and effort instead of natural intelligence to increase their own success at Anaheim High school. The Secret to Raising Smart kids, Carol S Dweck’s article gives the reader a lot of reasons as to why students with a growth mindset outscore those the with a fixed mindset. The belief that students are born smart should change to everyone because really all it is is just determination “such children hold an implicit belief that intelligence is innate and fixed, making striving to learn to seem far less important”(21). Most students who have this mindset usually think that’s why even try because they won’t get the hang of it, but this is a lie because the only difference between those who think this and those who are “naturally smart” is grit. The students that have grit always tend to outscore others because they keep on pushing themselves for what they want and don't give up till they actually understand it or get what it was they wanted were striving for. When students also do something wrong on what they were doing, they just give up or try to avoid the problem because they don’t like that challenge unlike the others with grit use that as a mistake they can correct ”In particular, attributing poor performances to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame”(22). …show more content…
Some people might have more grit to do something than another any person because they just want that certain thing more. In “Kewaunan’s Ambition for AB” by Tough Paul the narrator remarks that people are different because some students don't mind having a B when they know that they could get a higher grade. Some students strive for something higher because they know that they can do it while many others just go for what are the minimum requirements ”There are students that do whatever is takes, but there are some that don’t put enough effort“(4). People just take the easy way out only doing the minimum because they know that eventually they will get what they need at the end of the day knowing that they could have been going above and