Fixed Mindset according to Dweck is “not much brain activity and running from the error.” They don’t really engaged with the activity and not interested in the things they are force to do. When they make mistakes, they run away from it. Growth mindset according to Dweck is ” the ability can be developed. There mind is on fire.” They deeply engage with activities and process what they are doing. When they make mistakes, they learn from it and correct it.
The build the bridge to yet first we can praise wisely/praising yet. Dweck said “not to praise their intelligent but praise the process that kids engage in.” The second is Rewarding yet. Dweck said “students were regarded for the use of effort, strategy, and progress.” While playing games, the students are rewarded in the process of it. This can change their mindset. They did a research where Dweck said “every time they said that of they are push out of the comfort zone their neurons can become smarter.” Students who were not taught this idea were still declining but students who were taught this idea showed a sharp improvement. I think these ideas are reasonable for students to be able to improve their skills and to learn outside of their comfort zone. I think that with ought a little push there is no success. Also being told that they are becoming smarter and being rewarded in the process is something that can encourage them to reach higher in their goals.
Dweck’s model of intelligence is “Equality and wasting lives.” She think that is a basic human rights for children and to create that growth. I think she is very true about the fact that it is an equality. Many children may not have the skills or ideas to make their intelligence grow. They many not even have the environment to be able to learn but with some encouragement and reward it definitely helps.
When I was in high school writing essays in English class, I always have this fixed mindset that I can not write essays good and give up easily. When my teacher changed majority of my English paper, I felt that I failed to write this essay and that it will never be right. I constantly read other students papers and look at my mine and see how bad my paper is. I did not embrace the fact that when my teacher changed the mistakes, my paper was turned into another completely different meaning than I had in the beginning. I did not like the change and was stubborn to change it back to the original idea I had. But my teacher was very encouraging and made compromise on what to change and not. In the end, I went with my teacher’s way and she gave me a better grade than the paper I had in the beginning. This made me realized that sometimes a fixed mind is a not a good thing to have and that we should be more flexible on changing things.
