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Growing up in Chicago, I attended a neighborhood school from preschool through first grade. Although it was an exceptional school for elementary kids, the education for middle school and high school students was not as adequate. Seeking a better place to raise their children, my parents were faced with a tough choice. When I was in 2nd grade, our family made the decision to move to the suburbs. On July 3rd, we all packed into our Honda minivan and drove 45 minutes to a new home in the town of Winnetka. Within my first year at Crow Island, my new school, I learned so many new things. I started playing the violin and speaking Spanish, neither of which were offered at my old school. I met my best friends that I'm still close with now. Over the

First, Duckworth argues that a growth mindset transforms failures into learning opportunities that make individuals achieve more. In Grit, Duckworth tells a story about David, one of her students whose growth mindset helped him become increasingly successful. Duckworth saw his desire to learn and immediately asked for him to be placed in an accelerated course that provided more challenges and failures. When asked about how he dealt with these new failures, David responded that “I did feel bad - I did - but I didn’t dwell on it. I knew I had to focus on what to do next. I basically tried to figure out, you know, what I did wrong. What I needed to do differently” (Duckworth 19). David’s approach to obstacles in class allowed him to achieve greater things in the future. He later graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from UCLA. David learned from his mistakes, and

Ballenger an accurate statement when he said that “Most of us have lurking in our past some high priest of good grammar whose angry scribbling occupied the margins of our paper.” Most teachers overlooked what we had written and just looked for grammatical errors. This always made me feel like my writing was never good enough. This discouraged when it came to writing papers because I always felt like I was just writing to have my essay covered in errors that I needed to fix. After getting so many red markings on my essays I always questioned my writing. In my head I could not figure out what I was doing wrong and I did not know how to fix my writing. It became really stressful to write essays and I always dreaded when

With this statement, comes the idea that the educational system has cheated these students. Sherry quotes some of her students that she has had in her adult-literacy programs concerning their wishes that someone would have made them work hard during high school. The author then provides an example of the time a teacher made her own son work by threatening to flunk him. She makes sure to address that students can rise above their own problems if they are pushed with the threat of failure. Sherry concludes that the threat of flunking should be used regularly as a positive teaching tool to both, push students and prevent those from moving on when they are not

Sylvia, from “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, and I have experienced a very similar realization of our naivety. The good grades came easy in my high school English classes. I assumed they would in English 1102 as well, but I could not have been more wrong. This class has been especially trying, but I can honestly say that I have grown as a result of it. The unexpected bad grades I received influenced me to fully grasp and understand the errors I made throughout my essays, in order to create clear works that exhibit all of the necessary requirements. I intend to portray my strengths and weaknesses in my portfolio by specifically discussing my complications with introductions, generalizations, and grammatical errors.

I enjoyed school the whole way through. Senior year I moved to the bay area with my dad, and attended San leandro High where I worked as a kindergarten teacher's assistant as well as walked to two jobs as a CSR at Marshalls and a Sales specialist at Mikasa. My mom passed away of cancer at age 42, when I was 20, and I dedicated some time to my siblings. Two years later I started/ continued on my personal pursuits again as a student, mother and employee. I volunteered at the American River College Child Care facility, and did my training with head start before deciding to take a position developing under privileged preschools for almost five years. And being My daughter's preschool teacher for all of her preschool years. I finished my ECE and AA degrees, and pursued my goals further choosing, applying and attending Union Institute and University since March, Winter session 2

Paul Tough created a experiment to see how teaching and showing these student different skills can teach them how to deal with hard event that happen.“Those students often misinterpret temporary setbacks as a permanent indication that they can’t succeed or don’t belong at U.T. For those students, the intervention can work as a kind of inoculation. And when, six months or two years later, the germs of self doubt try to infect them, the lingering effect of the intervention allows them to shrug off those doubts exactly the way the advantaged students do”(Tough 10). Tough has helped these student by showing they a new and improved way to deal with problems that are foreign to them. The interventions have help replace negative internal doubtful thought with positive thoughts. This one external factor changed them for the better when it came to their mindset. “Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students’ minds — replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren’t that easy to persuade. But Yeager believes that the interventions are not in fact changing students’ minds — they are simply keeping them from overinterpreting discouraging events that might happen in the future”(Tough 8). The experiment was to improve their thinking and to help them deal with big problems, that are actually very small and fixable. Not to make them into someone different, but to show them a different way. This external factor helped many students to deal with thing that pose threats to them finishing

My past reading and writing experience through my education has taught me an important skill, failure. I have learned to fail with grace, thanks to years of pain and suffering. Failing may be in important skill, but many times it demoralizes and demotes students, and reduces there ability to be lifelong learners. From that failure I have allowed myself to adapt and fit the mold of a cookie cutter student in modern education. Now, you won’t find me willingly pick up a fiction book

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” On the first day of school when I walked into this classroom, little did I how great of an impact this class would have on my life. Not only did I greatly improve my writing, reading, thinking, and speaking skills, but as a human being overall. Despite all the long, sleepless nights, I am grateful for what this class has provided me. This class has shown me that individuals always have room for improvement, and this improvement can be reached through hard work and dedication. With all the knowledge I received from this class, from individualism to the horrors of indifference, I hope to not let this information stray within my mind, but to share it amongst

I started my educational career in John F. Kennedy Elementary. I don’t really remember my years there because I only went there for Kindergarten and 1st grade. After that, I went to Sepulveda Elementary. That was a learning experience because I had to basically be on my own for a couple of days since I was the new

Through out my high school career I never took my education seriously. For most of the four years it was a big blur. I’m not quite sure if it was because of me or if I found myself blaming my surroundings or teachers for my lack of focus and strive to learn. A failure can mean different things to everyone else. Maybe there’s just different types or categories of failures. These failures are meant to teach us something, or motivate us to simply not make these mistakes again.

American author, Richelle Goodrich, said that “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift.” Ms. Goodrich believes that mistakes should not be looked down on because they actually help. Many people across the globe believe that mistakes make a person better instead of worst. Yet, no matter how many times people heard this, they still question how mistakes can help them. Like many, I believe that mistakes can help a person by correcting their thoughts or mindset about a topic.

It seemed as though my efforts were ineffectual and I was tired of working so hard and getting no recognition. The only problem is when I arrived the next day for class I still cared and I still tried. I was so determined to prove myself that no matter how I actually felt I was going to prove myself. This was not the first nor the last time my dyslexia tried to define me but what truly defines me is what I learned when I showed up to school the next day. It did not matter how many times I got knocked down I continued to get up and fight for what I wanted.

Using My Open Math is a direct learning experience. The home page is set up so that the user can log in with ease, you do not have to click around to a sign in page to input the login information. Even though that may not seem like a hassle, it seemed to be somewhat of a burden when logging into Pearson’s MathLab. Once logged in, it shows the courses being taken on the left in plain sight. This again is a nice feature, as it doesn’t issue any strain on the user trying to do an assignment.

A mistake or lack of knowledge doesn’t defy a student’s capability of learning. Instructor Emily Detero teaches a group of students about basic grammar and word usage. During one of her classes, she picked a student to identify a verb in a sentence. The first student answered incorrectly, that is why another student had to answer and this time it was right. A scenario like, “But if you can’t identify a verb in a sentence, should you be allowed in a college class?” “Absolutely not, said several professors” (Hanford 5). Some college professors think that students who are placed on a remedial class doesn’t have the enough skill to handle university level classes. Professor Kevin Buterbaugh quoted “There are certain basic skills to have before you can do higher order learning” (5). But not in the case of a student’s name Sarah