Tough's External Factors

At the end of the article Keene also points out that the way teachers handle and teach during class is what’s forcing theses harder to reach claims. The teaching ways show that not giving a challenge to the students makes it harder for them to achieve their goal and try to succeed in college.

Rita Pierson has discovered a way to incorporate positive reinforcement without setting her students up to fail. During her speech, she offers personal experience to help support her theory that acknowledging the correct answers over incorrect answer can lead to confidence building in a pupil’s self-esteem and creating a trustful human connection with the student. Rita offers a comfortable and wisdom providing argument wrapped in a presentation that shows passion for how teachers and student relationship should be. Her over all demeanor has the audience listening, learning and engaging as she shares her beliefs with a passionate smile on her face. To top off the speech she adds some comedic relief that encourages the connections with her listeners. The room was set in a lecture classroom like setting with Rita being highlighted. Everyone looking down at Rita as she presents her argument about human connections and positive criticism in today’s classrooms.

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

The point in this case is that realistic expectations play a great role in promoting positive and negative outcomes. But chances are, if he had a positive outlook, despite his ill preparedness, he stay may have received a higher failing grade. Nonetheless, Grigsby’s examples are interesting and does a great job of portraying what occurs in an individual’s mind when that person is projecting or making judgements of what outcome a certain event is going to yield. It is so because not only are they uncomplicated enough to visualize, but also because they are examples that one may even recall having done. The greater message in this sub-category is that this kind of thinking can and does play a large role in helping to determine how and what one feels during pre-conceived events and the reality that is borne from it. In the case of the person thinking he will not have a good time at the party he attends, he ends up not having it because he generated responses that contributed to that outcome (i.e. not socializing, criticizing the home, etc.). As for the student who performed well on his math test, he partly did so because of good preparation and knowledge and a realistic expectation that the other was lacking. Or as Adler and Towne put it:

Hence, after we look at all these case studies, we could conclude that the students’ academic performance is clearly tied to teacher’s expectation. In other words, the students who were deemed as “better” or “good” ends up achieving better also due to the higher expectation that the teacher was giving to them. These result, especially Rosenthal and Jacobson’s, demonstrated extremely powerful self-fulfilling prophecy on the part of the teacher. This is because when a teacher forms certain expectations towards their students based on whatever characteristics

One of the three factors is how much a person values a college education Placing a value on education does not only help one obtain a great job, it can help a person become a better educated, responsible and respected young adult, In addition, family and friends view changes after a person successfully attains a college degree. Furthermore, one fells more successful in life knowing that their study time had paid off. In general, students that finish college have a fifty percent increase advantage, according to book of college success by Jean M. Raniseski,

There are many factors that are in connection to school and a student’s individual personal life. Schools

34). I chose this theory, as I have witnessed children being empowered and striving for their best after the educator facilitated them to build a positive mindset. Children learn from making mistakes and challenges, these come together and help mathematical thinking and cognitive development (Boaler & Dweck 2016, p. 13). The educator which I had, could have taught children in a more positive way and encouraged children to do their best, but also make sure they know everyone makes mistakes and there will not be penalties for

Every student who enters into a college level program must seek out many new skills in order to be truly successful. The first to recognize is motivation and focus. The student must understand that college is not high school and the discipline level you set for yourself is going to need

Willpower will encourage my choices because they will help with my goal that I want to achieve, to earn a bachelors degree and work for the FBI. I want to earn good grades but I want to be the best, I want to push myself to the fullest. If I work hard and stay motivated I can be the best and achieve my goal a 4.0 GPA. Building my critical writing skills will help me in future in my upcoming classes and also help communicate with others. Organization is key to school, making sure everything is up to date and turned in when need be. This will help through my time in college and in future jobs or in my job today.

When his experiment failed, he learned to not experiment on students ever again because it will just get out of hand. During Ben’s experiment, students would beat other students up if they didn't want to join The Wave and David even pushed Laurie to the ground because she was against it. After David and Laurie told Ben what was going on, he stopped The Wave and learned to never experiment on his class again. Losing can also help with determination. If somebody doesn’t succeed the first time, they will strive to succeed the next time and learn the value of determination and how it can help you achieve your goals.

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.

A college student mindset is different than high school student. They must have a multiple initiative and active learning. It means that college students should be required to improve their knowledge, skills, networking and up to date follow the issues. All of that will supporting them to use They professional skill (they major) on their activity at campus or on their future career after graduate.

College success and college world differ somewhat from real life where people confront with struggles to succeed those dreams and plans that motivate them initially to follow a college education. Planned steps that drive people where they seek to arrive, once they finish college, may seem easy to manage, but the truth is opposite; people become aware that the surrounding factors are extremely hostile when they try to achieve goals and make decisions. However, the success of those that have completed a college education and step into the real world, depends on several individual factors such as; motivation, self-confidence, personality, and perseverance are factors that can influence future decisions that are necessary to achieve their goals.

Learned helplessness is approximately seen as cognitive individual variables that mirrors the habitual manner where students exhibit the causes of bad events that occur them (Peterson & Barrett, 1987; Lin & Peterson, 1990). Therefore, there are three causes that can impact students’ achievement because of the bad events that students face which are internal against externality, stability against instability, and globality against specificity. Thus, students who clarify bad events with the three causes internal, stable, and global causes manifests more acute debilitation in their wake, passivity, and poor problem solving. Indeed, these causes are called explanatory style, so explanatory style tends to be depressive style. Nevertheless, explanatory