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Monday, August 21, 2017
My Thoughts on Growth Mindset
It is really funny that we are discussing the topic of Growth Mindset considering the fact that, just yesterday (August 20, 2017), my roommate brought this topic up to talk about while we were having dinner. My roommate is working as a student mentor this semester for freshmen engineering students. He spoke about how important it is for these new students to adopt this Growth Mindset as oppose to adhering to the Fixed Mindset that is programmed into us as kids and high school students. I completely agree with his opinion and that of Doctor Carol Dweck. I believe that anyone who adheres to a Fixed Mindset while in school denies them-self of ever reaching a challenging goal, or worse: causes them to not even try in the first place. I believe that a Fixed Mindset is the outcome of either extremely low self-worth or extremely high self-worth. During my time at OU, I have discovered that I originally had a Fixed Mindset and felt defeated after not receiving the A's that I was accustomed to in high school. I later learned that I had to accept that I was not the smartest student in the class, but that I could always improve to become the student that I personally strive to be. This also taught me to not to be better than my peers, but to be better than my former self.
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I am so glad to hear that your roommate is helping those new students learn about growth mindset! Most of the students in the classes I teach are juniors and seniors, but of course learning about a growth mindset earlier is even better, especially for students who have a rough transition from high school to college. My hope is that learning about growth mindset in this class can help college seniors with that transition from college into the rest of your life, where you are going to face all kinds of new challenges. New challenges are exciting... and it helps to be ready for them, knowing you should not judge yourself too harshly, but instead to learn from mistakes. And keep on climbing, like the cat in the picture! :-)
ReplyDeleteThats so funny that your roommate brought that up to you. Personally, I heard about it a long time before this class and I think its great that the word is out there! Also, I couldn't agree more. I used to tutor as well, that is why I was familiar with this approach. The only mistakes are the ones that are made without with the failure of learning from them. By the way, awesome cat meme!
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