Ms.Ramirez
English26
10/21/14
Growth mindset
Can the growth mindset help people fulfill their potential more effectively than the fixed mindset? Dweck argues that the growth mindset will allow a person to live a less stressful and more successful life. When, in a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. Dweck mentions how effectively the growth mindset can be, than a fixed mindset. When using the growth mindset, a person can be more successful in education because the growth mindset can help people fulfill their potential more effectively than the fixed mindset. Certainly, by thoughts of wanting challenges, being praised by others, and avoiding bad relationships.
By using the growth mindset, one can be successful in education by thoughts of wanting challenges. For your understanding, a praise must be based on what can be accomplished through practice, study, persistence and good strategies. We inadvertently praise many talent based skills. We need to focus praise on the process of learning. Note “We can praise as much as we want for the growth process what they accomplished through practice, study, persistence, and good strategies. And we can ask them about their work in a way that admires and appreciates their efforts and choices” (177). Confidence is developed through positive experiences, not mindless praise. By praising with the process involved with learning, students will crave more. They will also look at their work more objectively and set higher expectations for themselves. In fact students will not risk failure until you prove to them you are not in the judgment game. For example in order to inspire, you first have to show the students that you are interested in their personal development. You are more concerned with where they are going to be rather than were they are at right now. Your dialog, and feedback to seemly innocent student’s inquiries all convey to the