Mindset Final
JaQuan Hayes
English 101
Donna Hastings
GROWTH MINDSET (Final Draft) Growth mindset is the best way to learn especially in this day and age. When you have a fixed mindset, you settle for everything and you believe that you don’t have any more to offer than what you are already doing. Sometimes we are our worst enemy and we doubt our ability to become better. When students and even teachers have a growth mindset, they understand that intelligence can be developed. Students focus on improving themselves instead of worrying about how smart they are. They work hard to learn more and get smarter. Based on years of research by Stanford University’s Dr. Dweck, Lisa Blackwell Ph.D., and their colleagues, we know that students who learn this mindset show greater motivation in school, better grades, higher test scores, better jobs, and all around success. In one study, Blackwell and her colleagues followed hundreds of students making the transition to 7th grade. They found that students with a growth mindset were more motivated to learn, and outperformed those with a fixed mindset in math, a gap that continued to grow over a two-year period. Those with the two mindsets had entered 7th grade with similar past achievement, but because of their mindsets their math grades pulled apart during this challenging time. A growth mindset won’t let you stop trying; it pushes you to push yourself in a lot of situations in life. 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 really prevent important skill development and growth, which could ruin your health and happiness down the line later on in your life. You will not push yourself to do better because you actually believe you have done the best you could do. Without growth
English 101
Donna Hastings
GROWTH MINDSET (Final Draft) Growth mindset is the best way to learn especially in this day and age. When you have a fixed mindset, you settle for everything and you believe that you don’t have any more to offer than what you are already doing. Sometimes we are our worst enemy and we doubt our ability to become better. When students and even teachers have a growth mindset, they understand that intelligence can be developed. Students focus on improving themselves instead of worrying about how smart they are. They work hard to learn more and get smarter. Based on years of research by Stanford University’s Dr. Dweck, Lisa Blackwell Ph.D., and their colleagues, we know that students who learn this mindset show greater motivation in school, better grades, higher test scores, better jobs, and all around success. In one study, Blackwell and her colleagues followed hundreds of students making the transition to 7th grade. They found that students with a growth mindset were more motivated to learn, and outperformed those with a fixed mindset in math, a gap that continued to grow over a two-year period. Those with the two mindsets had entered 7th grade with similar past achievement, but because of their mindsets their math grades pulled apart during this challenging time. A growth mindset won’t let you stop trying; it pushes you to push yourself in a lot of situations in life. 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 really prevent important skill development and growth, which could ruin your health and happiness down the line later on in your life. You will not push yourself to do better because you actually believe you have done the best you could do. Without growth