Her article “Brainology”was initially published in Independent School magazine in 2008 and explains some ofthe benefits of considering mindsets in a learning environment.
Main idea, audience is educators and students. Is there any specifically reason that she chose Independent School magazine for the first public? Is this magazine was the most popular one about education in 2008?
"Most of all, teach them that by taking on challenges, making mistakes, and putting forth effort, they are making themselves smarter."
I believe that teach your student to take challenges and learn through mistakes and at the end of the road that is what make you smarter and full experience.
Their studies and ours also found that negatively stereotyped students (such as girls in math, or African-American and Hispanic students in math and verbal areas) showed substantial benefits from being in a growth mindset workshop."
Stereotyped students are most likely to fail a career than the ones that have a cero stereotypes.
"Instead of giving them confidence, it made them fragile, so much so that a brush with difficulty erased their confidence, their enjoyment, and their good performance, and made them ashamed of their work."
the "now" is totally different than the past. in the past we were building to be strong people and in the now a lot of people get to be fragile emotionally and psychological and for that is necessary to constantly work on the confidence.
"The students with a fixed mindset believed that if you worked hard it meant that you didn't have the ability, and that things would just come naturally to you if you did."
I believe that things can happened naturally but not all people's way to learn is the same, and it shouldn't be compare one to another's ability as we all are different.
Mindsets and Achievement
How Do Students Learn These Mindsets ?
** Brainology**
What Do We Value?
Having a fixed mindset is deciding to limit your brain to endless ideas. I believe all students should grow out of a fixed mindset and find their purpose. Being able to grow out of the fixed mindset might even show you how strong your brain really is or how easy it maybe to rewire it.
we have begun to develop a computer-based program called "Brainology."
Program to teach kids how their brains work and to have a growth mindset. Kids may want to participate and take on challenges at school after going to the program
We pilot-tested Brainology in 20 New York City schools. Virtually all of the students loved it and reported (anonymously) the ways in which they changed their ideas about learning and changed their learning and study habits.
Brainology is helping students understand the growth mindset.
My favorite thing from Brainology is the neurons part where when u learn something, there are connections and they keep growing. I always picture them when I'm in school.
neurons forming connections when we learn something new is really powerful.
This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research is showing that our brains change
This is cool because....
"It was a hard project, but you did it one step at a time and it turned out great!"
With essays I always take it one step at a time but sometimes that can ruin my flow of how I write. There are sometimes where I have to write the essay first and then go through with the outline. With doing the outline after writing helps me know what i need to fix when doing revisions.
. In contrast, the students with the fixed mindset believed that if you worked hard it meant that you didn't have ability, and that things would just come naturally to you if you did
School has always been difficult for me because I feel like I put in a lot of effort but then I do not do as well as i thought. This is especially difficult for me with tests because even when i study i do not do good on tests.
As we answer these questions, you will understand why so many students do not achieve to their potential, why so many bright students stop working when school becomes challenging,
one of the reasons i have a harder time doing school work now is because I work better when I have face-to-face classes where i can ask the teacher for help right then and there instead of having to email the teacher and having to wait hours for a response.
and made them ashamed of their work.
Wouldn't this make them more harmed?
Those with a growth mindset had a very straightforward (and correct) idea of effort
I think that this is unfair to call it correct. Every mind is different and with different home lives it impacts every way our mind is develop.
different beliefs, or mindsets, create different psychological worlds
Why does our mind do this? What in the creation of our mind made us have this trigger?
In our society, we seem to worship talent — and we often portray it as a gift. Now we can see that this is not motivating to our students. Those who think they have this gift expect to sit there with it and be successful. When they aren't successful, they get defensive and demoralized, and often opt out
I think while there is such thing as having innate talent, hard work is still required to further develope that talent. Theres a huge difference between having the potential to be great and actually being great.
The teachers, who didn't even know there were two different groups, singled out students in the growth-mindset group as showing clear changes in their motivation.
ITs interesting how what people really want is to be challenged, I think a main reason why many of the students who where not in the growth mindset group lost interest and "burned out" However, Meanwhile the "growth mindset" group was able to appraoch school as incremental small challeneges, which kept the mmotivated to continue to improve.
. Those with growth mindsets reported that, after a setback in school, they would simply study more or study differently the next time. But those with fixed mindsets were more likely to say that they would feel dumb, study less the next time, and seriously consider cheating. If you feel dumb — permanently dumb — in an academic area, there is no good way to bounce back and be successful in the future.
I think that along with encouragin a strong work ethic is teaching kids that adversity, setbacks, and outright failure are a part of life. And the best response to all three is to pick your self up, learn and try again.
students with different mindsets cared about different things in school
Those with a positive mindset works very hard to achieve their goal in school whereas those with a fixed mindset does not really care about their school work but they care about their appearance most.
growth mindsetbelieve that intelligence is a potential that can be realized through learning.
When effort is applied it enables one to get stronger by gaining more knowledge. The more we ask for help from other students, the more we get that drive to achieve more and growth in our performance.
A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students
A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students. This is true, the moment students get that mentality of not achieving what they want for instance, they find themselves giving up thus lacking the motivation of improving.
"Wow, that's a really good score. You must be smart at this." We praised the children in another group for their effort: "Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard." That's all we did, but the results were dramatic.
This goes back to Golden Child Syndrome, if you praise the child about themselves, they can become self-obsessed and not do as well, just like the article says. But if you praise the child on how hard they worked, or tried, etc., then they tend to do better.
Those with growth mindsets reported that, after a setback in school, they would simply study more or study differently the next time. But those with fixed mindsets were more likely to say that they would feel dumb, study less the next time, and seriously consider cheating. If you feel dumb — permanently dumb — in an academic area, there is no good way to bounce back and be successful in the future
This seems like it could also be linked to mental health.
You will also learn how praise can have a negative effect on students' mindsets, harming their motivation to learn.
This is called Golden Child Syndrome.
believe that intelligence is fixed
Intelligence has been found to be genetic.
whether they see their intelligence as something that's fixed or something that can grow and change — has profound effects on their motivation, learning, and school achievement (Dweck, 2006)
This makes me think about the quote, "as above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…" As in, what is within me is also outside of me. I, myself, make my life what I think it to be.
More and more research is showing that our brains change constantly with learning and experience and that this takes place throughout our lives.
Yeah, no duh.
the growth of their brains was in their hands
Your mind is as big as you let it become. Many people not only students let the best get to them but as much effort they try and put in is going to be how big there "brain' will get so will definitely be "in there hands".
Finally, the children who were praised for their intelligence lied about their scores more often than the children who were praised for their effort.
. Many of those who are praised for there "intelligence" instead of there effort don't seem to want to take the criticism of others that believe they are so smart but what they might not see is everyone makes mistakes and with that you should learn from to do better for yourself.
believe that everyone can improve their abilities. And they understand that even Einstein wasn't Einstein until he put in years of focused hard work
"Einstein wasn't Einstein until he put in years of focused hard work" This is so true many people would not be who they are today if they hadn't put in all there focus. As we wouldn't see who we can become if we don't believe in ourselves and believe we are smarter then what we imagine ourselves to be.
To do this, we have begun to develop a computer-based program called "Brainology." In six computer modules, students learn about the brain and how to make it work better
Would students improve from this if the teachers themselves did not have the same growth mindsets as the students?
These tips
I can connect many of these ideas with the tips and information in the Brainology program in GLS: http://www.mindsetworks.com/