Michael Martinez , Jesse Muñoz, Ricardo Canales
Park ELA Period ⅞ 8/31/2016 Growth v. Fixed Mindset Mindset is significant when it comes to education & learning. To prove this, there are people who have a different point of view of this, and the growth mindset has contributed to how teachers instruct today. Carol Dweck mentions that the only route for any student to improve in any aspect of life. This involves school, jobs, politics, family, and so on. Dweck was experimenting for about 20 years, and she concluded that people with growth mindsets don't give up as easily as fixed mindset people. People with a fixed mindset see a challenge as something impossible, whereas people with a growth mindset see challenges as only a bit harder of a problem. There was one said experiment where one group of students was put into a room to solve a math problem, where one group of scholars was put inside with a professor coach who pushed the students to not give up and that every time they were getting closer and to solving it, which was the type of growth mindset. The other group of students was just standardized and they just had to answer the question and give up if they wanted to, which showed a fixed mindset. The results show that the people with a growth mindset had better results than a group with a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset is what most people have as a mindset. People with a fixed mindset tend to believe that intelligence can not change over time. People with a fixed mindset see challenges as an impossible thing to do. Schools and education use a fixed mindset because they have students reach a goal instead of making them think that there is no limit and to go beyond. However, if schools don’t have any goals for students, they may not do anything at all. This can result in students learning absolutely nothing at school and not slowly get better over time. If students do set goals for themselves, they will be more likely to reach it on their own. Finally, the best thing to is to try to maintain a positive and growth mindset, because of the tests and exams showed on students, it makes them more successful in life. A growth mindset is usually symbolized by a growing tree, whereas a fixed mindset is symbolized with a brain inside a locked cage. As we show both mindsets battling against each other, the growth mindset easily surpasses the fixed mindset, because it mainly shows the qualities that “successful” people have. The carriage mainly symbolizes how effort eventually leads to success. The road to success is paved with failure.
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