Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research, Carol Dweck Says. A theory by psychology professor Carol Dweck from Stanford University has changed the way many parents and teachers teach children. She beliefs that the brain can be trained like a muscle; you can strengthen it through hard work and effort, this is called a ‘growth mindset’. However many parents and teachers misuse this theory by not giving their children accurate praise of growth mindset parenting. These parents and teachers only focus on praising effort, saying they will do better if they try harder and giving better scores and grades to students who put in the effort even if their work was unsatisfactory. Dweck theorizes that effort alone will get students nowhere. Adults should focus on the success of that student and the results. Praising effort, success, and results together is what really makes a growth mindset parent and not only only praising one of these aspects.
The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system.Alfie Kohn challenges Carol Dweck’s growth mindset theory by arguing that it ironically contradicts itself. A growth mindset not only does nothing for the student and actually lowers their academic progress. Praising students is taking away the learning from classrooms. Instead of students focusing on their academic progress they instead conditioned to focus on the reward, taking away the focus on the actual school work itself and putting it more on amping their self of stem. Praising also have some students believe their expectations are low, such as parents” saying you really tried hard” instead of saying “you are smart” will lead them to believe that the adult praising them must really think they are unintelligent. Real growth lies in focusing on the actual curriculum itself so the student can learn and redirect children to the path of success. A fixed Mindset is the belief that one's intelligence is limited; you're either smart or you're not. They believe You cannot become more intelligent no matter how hard you try It is believed that students with fixed mindsets struggle because they give up when faced with a challenge and stick with what they know to and therefore not trying knew things out of fear that they cannot do it. A growth mindset The belief that through great effort and hard work one can achieve their goal. Intelligence is expanded through learning knew things and perfecting them. Those with growth mindsets are believed to do better since they work to succeed instead of giving up. Obviously, there are many differences between two mindsets; one is yin and the other is yang. A fixed mindset would argue that no matter how much you tried you could never reach a certain level of intelligence and a growth mindset would argue that through learning your material, studying, challenging yourself and having confidence are all aspects that can and will lead you to success. Personally, I fall in the somewhere in the middle of these two mindsets. I always firmly believed that through effort and learning you can achieve anything however my actions speak louder than words. I often put myself down when I didn't do as good as I hoped, and when I didn't do as well as I wanted I completely shut down, convinced myself I was stupid and gave up completely, ruling out that I am just not good enough. Even after proving to myself in that all I needed was effort to succeed by eventually getting A’s in the classes I ruled out I was simply too dumb to understand I still today give up when the going gets rough. As a college student, I am trying even harder to let go of these bad habits so I can achieve my goal.
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