Mindset: The Role Of Mistakes In Students

320 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Usefulness of mistakes

Phase two of Mindset Monday focused on mistakes. McConnell’s class started the activity with a discussion where students revealed mistakes made them feel frustrated, embarrassed, defeated, and resulted in bad grades. Equally important, they noted that judgments are made when you make a mistake. To debrief the discussion, the students wrote a learning log entry regarding their view of mistakes. The takeaway from their entries was best summarized as: When you are very small, mistakes are expected because you are young and you are just experiencing everything. However, once you start school you are suddenly learning and competing--the game changes. Mistakes are seen as setbacks. Based on mistakes, kids are labeled as smart, and not so

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Carol Dweck's Brainology And Rebecca Cox: The Student Fear Factor

    1005 Words  | 3 Pages

    Meaning that when children grow up with praise such as “oh you must have been so smart to get an A on that test”, instead of “you must have worked really hard on that lesson”, children could take the praise to their intelligence the wrong way and think that since they are “smart” instead of their effort on a task which will cause them problems in the future and they might want to give up and quit. I have seen this first hand and this has actually happened to me before, so I know from experience that this could have a negative effect impact on a student not just students in elementary school but also adults who are going to college or young adults who are looking for a job. In contrast, some students love to get that kind of compliment but they would always end up expecting that so when I work with children I will be complimenting them on the effort they put into everything that they do. From now on, I will be praising children on their effort and not on their

    Read More

  • Carol Dweck's Brainology

    956 Words  | 2 Pages

    These students come in with a fixed mindset in what it will be a class about just reading and writing on boring topics and that they will neither understand the readings or develop a well-written paper. Yet, there are those that see it as a way of being introduced to new material and hearing the different point of views from peers and instructor. What can harness the development of a growth mindset in a class? Well for starters we can start Dweck recommends taking careful consideration of the words given to the students (p.4). Dweck also says to not to praise their intelligence but the effort of the student. For instance, by replacing the word “fail” to “learn” it can have two different outcomes. It can be used in a term as if falling short on a goal; it is not that they “fail” but they “learn” from what kept them from reaching that goal. It would also be beneficial for students to reflect on the task on hand and verbally express their own

    Read More

  • Compare and Contrast the Mentoring Style

    1062 Words  | 3 Pages

    In conclusion, Dr. Blalock and Mrs. Kuznicki have similar and different mentoring style. Each style of guidance can influence the mentees. Dr. Blalock and Mrs. Kuznicki both criticize people with strong words when facing a mistake made by other people, they will acknowledge and compliment on the success that other people made. However, Dr. Blalock has short temper and do think mistake is a good way to learn. He almost sends Thomas away because of an incautious mistake Thomas made during a lab research. Different from Dr. Blalock’s impatient behavior, Mrs. Kuznicki think that mistake is a good way to learn. She taught me many things after I made a mistake during speech practices.

    Read More

  • The Two Concepts Of Mistaken Behaviour Vs. Misbehavior

    1041 Words  | 3 Pages

    Initially, I define the two concepts of mistaken behavior and misbehavior, the first as an error in judgment and action made in the process of learning life skills. Mistaken behaviors occur at three levels which are: experimentation, socially influenced, and strong unmet needs. Teachers who use guidance see self-ruled life skills as difficult to learn, and they recognize that children are just at the beginning stages of a lifelong process of learning these skills. In the process of learning any difficult skill, children, like all of us, make mistakes. These teachers recognize that when children experiences conflicts it is because they have not yet developed the cognitive and emotional resources for more mature responses. The second concept being misbehavior is the conventional term applied to conflicts that the child is involved in, resulting in consequences that often include punishment and the internalization of a negative label such a “naughty”. The complexity of teaching self-ruled life skills leads some adults to the misconception that young children know how to behave, they just choose to misbehave. When conflicts occur, teacher who focus on misbehavior tend to label the child’s character and attempt to shame the child into better behavior.

    Read More

  • Schulz's On Being Wrong

    255 Words  | 1 Pages

    During “On Being Wrong” Schulz talks about how we learn about being wrong at a young age by having testes, quizzes, and grades on assignments. She talks about how when the other kids see your grades they immediately begin to judge you and think that you are less intelligent, lazy, or that you are irresponsible by not studying or not putting forth enough effort on your school work. That is where the negative connotation with being wrong is engraved into our minds, but being wrong is one of the best ways our society learns. As humans we all make mistakes, our entire lives are run by trial and error system; when something is wrong you just have to keep adjusting your ideas and trying again until what you are doing is correct. The only difficult

    Read More

  • Essay On Juvenile Delinquency

    972 Words  | 2 Pages

    Kids in general learn from the people in their environment. If they see something good that someone else does, they too will do the same thing. They are not able to control the way they think yet because their cognitive learning skills aren’t as strong as they are when you become an adult. If a child sees someone doing something bad instead of good, the same reaction as the first example will take place and that child will exhibit bad behavior. This goes hand in hand with the social learning theory. The social learning theory focuses on individual behavior. Kids are easily influenced by other kids in their age group bec...

    Read More

  • rater

    757 Words  | 2 Pages

    ... F Word” delivers a whole new look on how students are being educated and gives a signal opinion on what should be done to help students learn better. I feel Mary carries a lot of knowledge from experience from teaching an adult course and having children going through school. This article inspired me to not look at failure in such a negative way. This article also made me feel that the passing averages of high school courses should be raised significantly to ensure we are not cheating our children and they have sufficient knowledge to Carrie them through life. I believe that many students including myself can benefit from Mary’s theory that failure should be a tool used by teachers to motivate students. If I was held back rather than passed off like many other students today I could have completed college and been already into a steady carrier achieving my goals.

    Read More

  • Fixed Mindset Essay

    1349 Words  | 3 Pages

    Have you ever thought about yourself if you are in the fixed or a growth mindset? A fixed mindset person is someone who overcomes obstacles, works hard, and failure does not stop them. On the other hand a person who is in the fixed mindset is someone who is non challenge, gives up, or thinks that success is abuse. In a book called “Mindset The New Psychology of Success” the author Carol S. Dweck talks about different ways we can convert ourselves from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset and the author also talks about the qualities of the growth and fixed mindsets. In a movie“Freedom Writers” the author Erin Gruwell shows us how she was a growth minded teacher but her students were in the fixed minded group. Throughout the school year the students had a fixed mindset but as time went by the students somehow their mindsets into the growth mindset. Freedom writers illustrates the fixed mindsets of the teacher and students and a growth minded teacher who changed everything.

    Read More

  • Reflection On I Am Going To Fail

    1878 Words  | 4 Pages

    ‘I am going to fail’ was the very first thought that crept into my mind on that very first day of class. Before I stepped into the classroom on the first day, I felt pretty good about my writing. I had done previously well in English, and didn’t think this class would be much of a challenge. This all changed on the first day of school, when my professor talked about the level of reading and writing expected for this class. I remember thinking ‘I don’t read, why couldn’t I have been born someone who likes to read?!’ Since this moment on the very first day of class, I have grown immensely through hard work. In this essay, I will explain what I have learned over the course of this class about myself, and about writing.

    Read More

  • Terry Doyle Review

    1137 Words  | 3 Pages

    There are many areas for potential failure in the learner-centered classroom. Doyle states that student resistance is the biggest obstacle to overcome. The student often doesn’t understand the concept and is not receptive to it. The greatest way to deal with this potential failure is to explain the ‘why’ to the students. Students that understand why they are to do a task and understand how to apply it are more likely to overcome it.

    Read More

  • Classroom Oral Error Correction in the Philippines

    2775 Words  | 6 Pages

    What are the attitudes of university freshman students and their teachers towards oral error correction?

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay On The Grading System

    1064 Words  | 3 Pages

    By nature, most students are brought up in an academic environment motivated to get A’s and B’s on their report cards. Those grades sometimes don’t thoroughly report how much a student has learned or gained knowledge in each topic. Some instructors throw in factors totally unrelated to learning, when the main objective of academic institutions is to learn. In order to clearly demonstrate how much a student has learned in the classroom, schools should change their current grading system and teach students how to learn.

    Read More

  • Mistaken Behavior

    734 Words  | 2 Pages

    Mistaken behavior is when children make mistakes accidentally or intentionally, Children still learning how to act mature responses. Children are at the beginning of a lifelong learning process and will make mistakes. That’s why sometimes children’s mistaken behavior turn into a misbehavior depends how the teacher see her expectations, because children don’t know how to be capable of playing together, solve their own problems. The child doesn’t not yet have the cognitive and emotional resources to respond.

    Read More

  • We All Learn From Our Mistakes

    643 Words  | 2 Pages

    Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.

    Read More

  • Math Is The Language Of The Un

    1218 Words  | 3 Pages

    Starting at childhood, education begins with the forced mind track of comparison. Parents teach their offspring to be fair or equal, and that they should share to make it fair. This is the beginning of the mathematical state of mind which stays with the child for the rest of his/her life, the summing up of what they themselves have and comparing it to what the other person has, so that both sides can be equal. This lesson is considered essential in the raising of children and since everyone is supposed to understand, people assume that everyone does. This assumption is a flaw that begins early. An example of how this can have a not so positive effect on people is if the “spoiled brat” wants to have more toys than the other children, and thus becomes, mathematically superior.

    Read More

More about Mindset: The Role Of Mistakes In Students

Open Document