This weeks blog assignment was very "eye opening". Stanford's psychology department's research shows that students have two mindsets toward learning, a fixed and a growth mindset. The fixed mindset is very troubling to me, I really hate the thought that students can actually get it in their head that the only have so much intelligence and thats all they have to work with. I will do every thing in my power to instill the growth mindset in every student I teach.
I will teach my students that they can learn an infinite amount of information if they are open to it. I will show them their mind is like a muscle, the more you use it the more powerful it becomes. I really am glad I was exposed to this information so that I can pass it along to other teachers and teacher propects.
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