Learning Styles Realized in Carol S. Dweck's Book, Mindset

While reading the book Mindset by Carol S. Dweck I learned much about my personal learning style, the realization about how I work with others, and how much an attitude or preconceived idea can influence how I live my life. This also directly impacts my thoughts as an aspiring teacher. All of which have made me come to the realization that as a teacher I will need to be aware of not only my mindset but also be aware of how students can be influenced by their mindsets.
While reading this book I found out that under certain circumstances I am a fixed mindset rather than a growth mindset. One, very identifiable, area I have a fixed mindset in, is the math content area. When ever I think about being forced to learn or teach math, I completely shut down. I feel I’ve become this way because for years I’ve heard that I need more work in that area, and that I have a hard time understanding it. So I feel I’ve lost any drive to concur it when I’ve already felt defeated by it. Which after reading this book I have realized this mentality could easily transfer to my students because that is one thing I have learned again and again from this book it is that one fixed mid set can have an immediate impact on the mind set of those people who are interacting with the person.
After reading this book I found some immediate changes in my attitude in ways that I think and function in school. Near the beginning of the book, page 36, Dewck describes the college students with a fixed mindset looking at test that did poorly to make they feel better where the growth mindsets looked to the tests that did well so they could learn from them. I have found myself recently checking answers that I was unsure of right after I walk out of a test. That w...

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...forming productive friendships with teachers. I can say from experience, that one bad teacher can have a huge impact on how students interact with new teachers. Which if a student has these walls built, that does not support a comfortable, safe, or uplifting classroom for students to work in. Which could indefinitely hold the student back from truly learning in the classroom.
It is hard for me to even condense the realizations that this book has made consider about my mindset and the mindsets of others. It has enlightened me to consider several situations and how the mindsets can steer outcomes in a certain direction. They can impact lives. Both educationally as a teacher (leader role), the mindsets of students, and the mindsets of interacting with others become a leading role in being able to provide an engaging and safe educational environment for all students.