Mindset 3rd

I think most of my peers have a ﬁxed mindset, mainly
because we are in an environment like <school> where the
message sent is that we are all smart because we go here.
Also i feel like there is an entitlement some students feel
like they have. For example a student in my math class does
not take notes because he feels like he is smart enough, and
can do it without the help of the teacher.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

I think a growth mindset because one of my friends knows
that he is not good at reading and writing so he tried to get
better at it and became a much better reader than before.


I think most people have a ﬁxed mindset. If you're smart at
Westminster, people are more likely to treat you
differently. 'Smart' people tend to get asked for help a lot
more than less 'smart' people, and there are 'smart' people
who try to make sure their "reputation" stays untarnished
through anything. I know a person that will say things like
"Oh, I didn't study," or "I slept through more than half of
that test," if he ever gets below a 95 on any test or quiz, or
*thinks* that he will get less than a 95 on anything. He
often talks about how he hasn't actually done written work
for 4 years, and acts like it's an achievement.


I think that it is about 50/50. Especially in math, I think a lot
of kids have a ﬁxed mindset. When they don't understand
something they shut down. It could be explained very
carefully how to do the problem in several different ways,
but some friends wouldn't grasp the concept because they
don't want to. It's not because they're too dumb, it's
because they think they're too dumb and don't want to put
in the effort of learning. Others, however, are open to
teaching. They aren't able to let go of something until they
have learned it, which is good. They will go to backwork
every day that week until they understand the concept, not
just in fear of failing that course, but because they have the
desire to learn.


i would say many of my peers have a ﬁxed mindset because
of the environment thet they have grown up in, where
failure is bad and you get punished for it and good grades
are good and you are told that you are smart for getting
them.


I think most of my peers at <school> have a ﬁxed mindset.
At <school> everyone feels pressure and competition to
do well in athletics and in school, most people aren't willing
to try new things or risk a failure because they think it will
be the end of the world. In some classes you have more
chances to do well than people realize so they think each
individual task you have to get a 100 on and do the same
thing you've been doing, without taking risks.


I think lots of the people at <school> have a ﬁxed mindset.
even though there are a lot of smart people at
westminster, i think that lots of them are just book smart,
people that just memorize facts and don’t try and analyze
the problems that they are faced with. i have seen this a lot
in science classes in the past years.


I think that they mostly have ﬁxed unfortunately. Many
times I hear people stating that they do not want to do
their homework. Also other times there are kids that just
say they hate school and general and others state that they
do not like what they are learning.


A ﬁxed mindset because i hear when people are doing
things like homework "what’s the right way to do this?"
there are many ways to do something i mean pro athletes
have their own ways of doing things because they get it
done they don't change to the textbook "way".


I think that my friends have a combination of both
mindsets. My friends are willing to learn and want to see
how things are true. They want to ask questions to
deepen their understanding. At the same time, my
friends are scared to do bad, for fear it might impact
something. My friends hate failing or doing something
that is not up to their own or their parents'
expectations. Recently, my friends got back their intro to
political thought and speech papers. While they were
comfortable sharing what they got because they knew
we would only provide support, some did not do as well
as they would have liked. This lead to my friends going to
ofﬁce hours to understand where they went wrong and
what they could improve on.


The people that I choose to spend my time with have
almost extreme cases of growth mindset. I feel like that
with them, i am encouraged to have a growth mindset
because their success is so great. A great many of this close
circle achieved Suma Cum Laude last year; though I did
not, I was encouraged by their merits and strive to do
better this year.


I think that a lot of my friends at <school> have a growth
mindset, because a lot of them will get angry at themselves
if they do bad on a test, but then try to change the thing
that caused them to fail so that they'll succeed the next
time. However, I think my mom has a ﬁxed mindset,
although she's trying to change herself, because she has set
perceptions about the world ad it's hard for her to change
herself.


I think most people have a ﬁxed mindset. We think that
there's only one way to do everything. Most people when
they get assignments only look at the grade and not the
feedback, and think what was the right way to do this
instead of what ways can I understand the material better.


I would say in my friend group, they have mostly growth
mindsets. I say this because they typically work hard and
study hard to getter better grades/ get better at sports,
music, etc. My friend was sharing time for the quarterback
spot last year at the beginning of the season, but he
practiced hard all year, and by the end of the year, he was
starting outright.


I think that most of my peers have a growth mindset
because we all strive to do better.You don't see anybody
that gets through high school with an eighth grade
education. We are always growing in our mindsets.


Most people have a ﬁxed mindset. They only focus on the
grades, rather than the feedback. Like when someone gets
back a paper, the thing they look at ﬁrst is the grade and
then (if they even do) look at the feedback.


Growth. We have received the growth mindset talks 3
times already from Mr. Adams.


In middle school, Mr. Adams talked a lot about having a growth
mindset. Basically, this means that throughout one's whole life, one must
be a student. One must realize that the brain is a muscle and that
exercising it will allow it to expand and improve. Only from really using
one's brain can one master skills and concepts, but if one works hard
enough, one can master anything. A fixed mindset is the exact opposite
of this, and it comes from believing that everyone is born good at some
things and bad at others. Having a fixed mindset allows one to believe
that one cannot change what one is good or bad at, cannot gain new
skills or improve on old ones. People with growth mindsets believe that
no one is born with talents and knowledge, rather it is acquired, while
people with fixed mindsets think that everyone is born with skills and
strengths and they'd just better live with them.


Most of my friends have a "ﬁxed" mindset, saying that they
can't do something or that they think they are no good at
something, however, some of my friends have a "growth"
mindset, saying that there is always room to improve or
thinking that they can do anything they put there mind to.


Some days I have a growth mindset and some days I have a fixed mindset.

The other day I was giving myself a very hard time about math by saying "I don't think I
should do honors math because I am not smart enough." I was feeling overwhelmed with
the concepts and that I got a 50% on a quiz. I undervalued my ability to learn math during
those terrible low moments.

On the other hand, after getting a 70% on a spanish quiz, I went home and studied very
hard for the next spanish quiz. This extra effort allowed me to learn the material better
than I had learned it for the previous quiz. The failure fueled my future success.

One more example relates to my math class last year. After checking every homework
assignment I would right tips on how to fix mistakes that I had made in that specific
homework. These tips coupled with redoing incorrect math problems created a
wonderful study guide for every math test. My mistakes showed me how to improve my
mathematic skills.


I think most of my peers have a "ﬁxed" mindset. This is
because many of them get scared when they run into things
that they don't understand. They don't enjoy being
challenged by their work and would rather it all be easy.
Also, I can see that they get frustrated with their work
whenever it gets too hard.


I believe that my friends and peers mostly have growth
mindsets. For the most part we all know that we can grow
and improve with practice. I know that the transfer in 6th
to 7th grade regular math to honors was very difficult for
people. Most of us failed our first tests! However, over the
first semester I watched myself and my peers grow, change,
and improve. We took advantage of back work and asked
plenty of questions. In the end, most of us ended with A's
and B+'s.


Most of my friends have a ﬁxed mindset because they are
more looking for the good grade more than actually
understanding the material.


I think most of my peers and friends have a "growth"
mindset because we are in school, and the whole point of
going to school is to learn. If students had a "ﬁxed" mind,
they wouldn't be willing to learn, and they probably
wouldn't learn very well.


Most of my peers seem to have a growth mindset.
Whenever something seems too hard, they get help to
learn it, and keep trying until they understand. One
example of this would be during a free period I was doing
homework with some of my friends, and one of them was
really confused with their math homework. They got up and
asked all my friends in their class for help until they got it
and could do the problems by themself.


Many of my peers like to compare themselves to others by
using a ﬁxed mindset because it is easier to compare status
with others in the status quo.


Most of my peers at school have a growth mindset. They
are very open to learning and enjoy understanding new
things, even though they joke about not wanting to learn
anything. For example, all of my peers were ready and
excited to learn about the different types of graphs in
Physics class.


I think there is a large mix, because some people just want
to go through the motions and arent willing to "raise their
hand ﬁrst" in class, but others are willing to go to back
work to ask how they can improve etc.


Some of my peers have ﬁxed mindsets. They do not pay as
much attention in class as their counterparts. They rely on
cramming, educated guessing, and natural ability to 'get
them through' class. However, I've noticed that most of my
peers and friends have growth mindsets, willing to learn in a
competitive environment. They do not give up as readily as
the people with ﬁxed mindsets.


As sad as it sounds, I believe most of my peers have a ﬁxed
mindset. Most of the time students think of mistakes and
failure and never learn from them. For example, if a student
got a test back and they did poorly, they would focus on
the mistakes they made and how bad they did, and not
think about the things they did well.


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