Growth Mindset
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A growth mindset is the belief that your intelligence is expandable with hard work and effort, as opposed to the belief that your intelligence is fixed. This theory, proposed by Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck, has been successful in contributing and influencing the field of education. “Studies have shown that when we teach a growth mindset, not only that it improves achievements for students as a whole, but it also narrows the achievement gap...” Eduardo Briseño explains in his Nov. 12, 2012 TEDxManhattanBeach talk; since the growth mindset theory was implemented, students labelled with negative stereotypes dictating their lives had the gap between them and other students narrowed. “Research [continues to show] that a growth mindset can have a profound effect on students' motivation, enabling them to. . .learn more, and do better in school (2)...” An article by Carol Dweck, it explains that students with a growth mindset received the qualities that would aid them in school and in later life. To conclude, the growth mindset has shown and influenced positive results within schooling; it only takes trying again and again.
Kindergarteners or first graders would grow bean plants, so here are two students. The first student has many pots surrounding him, while the other proudly holds up a pot. Both plants are growing, though one student has a larger plant. The plants influence the students. One student has tried many times to get one to grow, and it worked, teaching him hard work and patience can benefit him. The other one also worked to get his plant growing, and this student worked so that his could be a very strong and healthy plant, and it paid off through. They both learned positive attributes besides how a plant grows. Thus, the plants, or rather, the process involving growing them, influenced them in positive ways, and contributed to growing a healthy mindset.
Reflection:
I learned that there is a difference between fixed and growth mindsets and that everyone has a mindset. Something new I learned was that anyone who has a fixed mindset can reverse it to a growth mindset. I concluded that I thought as a fixed and growth minded person. I ask questions in some subjects but I also stay put when struggling which is not OK. When working with my teammates, I found out that I was a kind of person who would put more details in a sentence. I also learned that I should think as a growth minded person and think critically about everything.
A growth mindset is the belief that your intelligence is expandable with hard work and effort, as opposed to the belief that your intelligence is fixed. This theory, proposed by Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck, has been successful in contributing and influencing the field of education. “Studies have shown that when we teach a growth mindset, not only that it improves achievements for students as a whole, but it also narrows the achievement gap...” Eduardo Briseño explains in his Nov. 12, 2012 TEDxManhattanBeach talk; since the growth mindset theory was implemented, students labelled with negative stereotypes dictating their lives had the gap between them and other students narrowed. “Research [continues to show] that a growth mindset can have a profound effect on students' motivation, enabling them to. . .learn more, and do better in school (2)...” An article by Carol Dweck, it explains that students with a growth mindset received the qualities that would aid them in school and in later life. To conclude, the growth mindset has shown and influenced positive results within schooling; it only takes trying again and again.
Kindergarteners or first graders would grow bean plants, so here are two students. The first student has many pots surrounding him, while the other proudly holds up a pot. Both plants are growing, though one student has a larger plant. The plants influence the students. One student has tried many times to get one to grow, and it worked, teaching him hard work and patience can benefit him. The other one also worked to get his plant growing, and this student worked so that his could be a very strong and healthy plant, and it paid off through. They both learned positive attributes besides how a plant grows. Thus, the plants, or rather, the process involving growing them, influenced them in positive ways, and contributed to growing a healthy mindset.
Reflection:
I learned that there is a difference between fixed and growth mindsets and that everyone has a mindset. Something new I learned was that anyone who has a fixed mindset can reverse it to a growth mindset. I concluded that I thought as a fixed and growth minded person. I ask questions in some subjects but I also stay put when struggling which is not OK. When working with my teammates, I found out that I was a kind of person who would put more details in a sentence. I also learned that I should think as a growth minded person and think critically about everything.
"The Crucible" End of the Play F.I.N.D. Reflection
One FACT about "The Crucible" is that it is a historical fiction play. My INTERNAL CONNECTION while reading "The Crucible"is greed because I get to live a better life than what the puritans lived. A NEW IDEA that I learned while reading "The Crucible" is that mass hysteria played a part in this play and that it also connects to the present days. A personal DECISION that I will make based on my reading and understanding of "The Crucible" is to not get involved in something that can get me killed.
October Reflection
I am currently working on my academic achievement. On my progress of books, my goal is to read eight books by the end of 8th grade. I've read three challenging books and hope to keep my pace. I haven't been participating a lot which makes me unhappy because I have good ideas that can be shared. A weakness that I have in this class is not participating because I am unsure if the information I give is accurate. A big strength that I have is the ability to plan things out. I can plan out what to do for an essay of just an assignment. I see myself as a decent writer. A strength that I have in this class is reading because I love to read. A weakness that I have is participating because it puts me down for most assignments. For me, challenging assignments are hard because we have to thoroughly search for the answers. Simple assignments are easy for me because because getting the answer isn't difficult. What I have to do this month is participate more so I can get comfortable around this class.
Quick Write: Freedom + Conflict
A positive impact of both freedom and conflicts is that there will always be a right side and a negative will be that there will always be a wrong side. Freedom benefits us because it allows us the express freely without any interruptions but are limited to a certain amount. It is good to create conflicts because at the end. we will always learn from them. Conflict and freedom connect because they can both have their limits. They are no exactly true opposites because they can share some uses. There is a paradoxical relationship between the two because freedom can make the government secure about its limits, but conflicts can let loose the security of those limits.
What does it mean to be an American? What is the American Dream?
To be an American means to be a citizen in America. Not only that, to be and American means to be protected by the Constitution and have the free will to express yourself without anyone interrupting you. We Americans make up American and must strive to make it better. To have “the American dream” means that you are experiencing life as an American. You can become whatever you would like to be without any limits. People from other parts of the world wish to have “the American dream” because they do not have the freedom that Americans have. Due to this desire happening around the world, they would start to immigrate and settle at America hoping to live like an American, and having “the American dream”. Also, people who wish to have the American dream have to work hard so they can have a better future family for the next generation to be more successful.
Poem Emulation
Brother to Brother
Josue Lopez
Well, brother, I’ll tell you:
Life for me was no trouble-free.
It has tacks,
And splinters,
And roars of war,
And places with no settlement on the floor--
Lone.
But all the time
I’ve been rising on
And reaching the stairs
That are far from end.
And sometimes with no sight;
Nor green to see the cleanse the light
So Brother, don’t you turn back
Cause you’ll surpass me.
Don’t you plunge now--
For I am still aboard
To the stairs far above me,
And life has been no crystal stair.
Josue Lopez
Well, brother, I’ll tell you:
Life for me was no trouble-free.
It has tacks,
And splinters,
And roars of war,
And places with no settlement on the floor--
Lone.
But all the time
I’ve been rising on
And reaching the stairs
That are far from end.
And sometimes with no sight;
Nor green to see the cleanse the light
So Brother, don’t you turn back
Cause you’ll surpass me.
Don’t you plunge now--
For I am still aboard
To the stairs far above me,
And life has been no crystal stair.
