Carol Dweck: The Power Of Yet In High School

To further prove that we should praise children on their hard work rather than just telling them they’re smart, Dwek and her colleagues performed an in-class experiment. The experiment consisted of splitting a group of ninety-one seventh graders. They specifically chose students with low math grades in their sixth-grade year of school. Roughly half solely focused on just study skills and tips while the other learned the same study skills as well as learning about the growth mindset and the connections neurons make as we

Effort-based praise leads to learning goals as a result of work effort and being aware that learning is a process of the work they put forth. This results in less frustration because children feel they are not being tested. In addition, they will attribute their performance to effort, which opens the door for growing possibilities in learning. Hence, children can interpret poor performances as correctable by using effort and by not seeing them as deficits in intelligence or in ability (Weaver et al., 2004).

The second rule is to encourage a growth mind-set by, “telling stories about achievements that result from hard work…descriptions [like that] of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills engenders a growth mind-set,” (Dweck, 171-175). Encouraging a growth mind-set allows for a child to have more success in their school life as well as in their social life as a result of motivation and the willingness to be challenged and learn.

Did you know that too much encouragement will make a child over confident and less likely to work hard. When kids get to feeling like they are really good at something they feel like all of the hard work is done and that they are at the top. They slow down their effort allowing others to catch up. They are less likely to work hard because they think they are good enough already. Once a child gets good and works at what they do they need to keep going and pushing because they will get passed by others. Mindset, by Carol Dweck explains, that kids need praise but not too much because there overconfidence will pull them down and others will pass them in life. Sometimes kids that got praise that tore them down took that praise and

In the article “The Perils and Promises of Praise” the author, Carol S. Dweck, discusses the effects of using inherent praising on students. Dweck, a psychologist, conducted studies and research that led to the discovery that if someone praised a student for their intelligence, it would put the student in a fixed-mindset; if you praise the student’s effort, they would be in a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset is created in someone’s head when they are praised on their intelligence. People with fixed-mindsets believe that they are intelligent enough to where they should not put effort in anything else because if they're smart enough then they don’t need to try. People with growth-mindset believe in working hard and expanding their intelligence.

When it comes to the topic of having a growth mindset, most of us will readily agree that students who are praised are motivated to learn. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how they are praised. Whereas some are convinced that praising students for their intelligence will motivate them to learn, others maintain that encouraging them for their efforts has a better impact on their motivation.

Teachers and parents have dedicated their time to tell children that they are smart and talented every time they get a good grade. Praising children this type of way has had an impact on their lives. Dweck said “many students believe that intelligence is fixed, that each person has certain amount and that’s that”. Students with fixed mindset only care about how smart they look or how smart they appear. By having this fix mindset, they turn down the ability to learn new things. They believe that if you study hard, you are not smart enough, and that if you were smart things will come to you with no effort. This has made students lose their belief in oneself when they face complicated circumstance. Dweck says that the reason for kids to have a fixed mindset is “intelligence

In Carol Dweck's video The Power of not Yet, she claims that when kids are given the grade of not yet instead of a failing the grade they tent to succeed more in school. The not yet grade giving them hope of achieving the goal instead of believing never accomplish the impossible goal. Giving them praise for the process not the grade. While I understand her reasoning behind this and somewhat agree, there are still unanswered question in her theory. Likw what happens when you reward them for son long that the reward becomes meaningless? Or when some who has actually tired, and succeed no longer sees the point trying because they all get the same reward no matter the outcome. Where is the challenge? There is a fine line between encouraging them

A growth mindset is usually set in middle school but you can change many fixed mindsets by telling them otherwise. The way the author describes what causes a fixed mindset is pretty interesting because I was like this and my grades decreased but now I'm realizing this more. Teachers need to stop praising students “We found that intelligence praise encourages a fixed mindset more often than did pats on the back for effort. Those congratulated for their intelligence, for an example, shield away from a challenging assignment- they wanted an easy one instead”(25) which means teachers need to stop giving students treat because it causes them to do worse in school by making them have a fixed mindset. This would help Anaheim students drastically because that's what many of the students coming from middle school come in with the growth mindset but then get crushed with how hard the work is and then they give

People believe that in order to be Smart, you have to become Smart, in other hands the brain works like a machine, the more you teach it, the more it learns. Usually students with a Growth Mindset are most likely to Succeed in Society. The changes that should be changed in Schools is that Students should be Congratulated on how hard they’ve worked on an Assignment etc.,“Wow… that’s a really good score, must of Worked hard” (25). The Researcher has Experimented the students with Test to see how they do and how they react to it. College students may pick up this Article to Study for Child Behavior, Counselors may also read this Article to get an ideal on how and why students Fail or Succeed. Schools should complement on how they're doing their work for it can motivate them, “We found that intelligence praise encouraged a fixed mindset more often than did pats on the back for effort” (25). Comparing the Two Articles “Marita’s Bargain” shows how they got their Intelligence unlike this article which states why students Fail or Succeed. After all, the students should be Praised for their efforts and not their

Basically, individuals with a fixed mindset often feel measured by a failure, sometimes permanently. Unfortunately, failed attempts are viewed as a label rather than an opportunity to plan a new path of succes. On the other hand, an individual with a growth mindset views a failed attempt as an opportunity to take action, to confront obstacles, to keep up with their schoolwork, and/or to better manage and organize their time. Growth mindset individuals believe that qualities can be developed, expanded, and eventually result in a successful outcome. A second lesson learned is the power of labels and the stereotype of ability; this lesson is undoubtedly one of the most enlightening. Dweck discovered in one of her studies that, “... ability praise often pushed students right into a fixed mindset, and they showed all the signs of it too. When we gave them a choice, they rejected a challenging new task that they could learn from. They didn’t want to do anything that could expose their flaws and call into question their talent” (72). One’s mindset determines their reaction to labels and stereotypes. An individual with a fixed mindset will settle for a positive label and chose stagnation and permanent inferiority rather than risk losing the label; whereas,

People have acknowledged, “Its through failure and mistakes that we learn the most” (Merryman). A child does not feel the gratitude of a win unless they have lost before. Young children must work hard in order to earn a trophy if they are given the trophy without working they are setting the child up for failure. Studies have proven,“We must focus on the process and progress not results and rewards” (Merryman). Children are easily affected by small things when they are young like a lose that pushed them forward to a victory. If people put children through the process, they will be more prepared for life. If people focus and critique their child when they are young, they will be preparing their child for future obstacles in

This is important because it’s hard to really see a lot of growth within a time period. In the article, Carol also backs this up with evidence from a controlled experiment. The experiment was focused on the minds of seventh graders and talking to them in a certain way that influenced their mindsets. The seventh graders were split up into two groups and were to work on an eight-session workshop, however, the control group was taught about what a growth mindset is and how it can be applied into their school life. This factor leads to the control group having improved at the end of the semester. This experiment showed that just by knowing about what a growth mindset is and how it could be applied in life, people are more likely to grow more rapidly than people whose minds are fixed on having a limit to their knowledge or skills. This is important because the sooner that kids know how to make their brain think that there are endless possibilities to who they can be or what they can do, the more they are likely to excel in anything that they attempt, not only in school but in their own personal life. This will allow a person with a fixed mindset to be able to change their way of thinking and start to see more about what they can accomplish with their life.

The author draws attention to several key points. First, those with a growth mindset aren't discouraged

My time at Gretchen Everhart was spent in the post-secondary class. This building is unique because all of the classes are together and there are several teachers working together as a whole, rather than alone in their own classroom. In the classroom I noticed that there were not many technological devices geared toward supporting the students. Most of the technology that is used within the post-secondary classroom is everyday technology such as, typical computers, a smart board and electronic books. I enjoyed every second of being there with these students; I just wish we had more than five weeks with them. I was on CBI every day, which is community based instruction. Due to this, I did not get a chance to observe them during PE, in the art