In an article written by Carol Dweck, she states her beliefs on how praising people for their work is a huge key to success, she ignores other key factors that might actually hinder you from a successful growth mindset. And in an article written by Alfie Kohn and she states how there are other factors such as your home life, relationships, and you and your families’ health. See Dweck talks about how all you need is praising to succeed, sometimes people have so much going on outside of the classroom; they simply can carless about being praised. Kohn stresses that it’s not praising but a better curriculum she states, “An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory.” …show more content…
It can be loud at times, there could be arguing, gunshots, and even cars screeching on their breaks from doing doughnuts, and racing. Say you have to write an essay on all first five chapters of your book you are reading in class. The T.V is on load because your family thinks homework is a waste of time. Let’s say you are trying to be focused even with the background noise. This particular day you hear more screeching from the cars than usual, even a loud, BOOM! You rush to the window to see what is going on outside and you see you little brother getting hit by the car flying a whole 30 ft. You drop your studying and homework to go outside and call for help. You go to the hospital and miss the due date, time, and class the next few days. Now your behind in class but your teacher praises you for finally coming in a few days later but you still got a zero on those assignments you missed. This is where Dwecks method of praising doesn’t really …show more content…
There are plenty of things that actually go into play inside and outside of school when it comes to people’s growth of mind. I am sure praising someone may help get them back on track or feel some type of appreciation nut in all reality it all depends on the learner themselves. Kohn says, “A substantial research literature has shown that the kids typically end up less interested in whatever they were rewarded or praised for doing, because now their goal is just to get the reward or praise.” Most of the time we want something to happen or hope for something great to happen but we usually forget Roam was not built in a day. Everything takes time, hard work, and effort. We all tend to forget the most beautiful art takes the most time and our mind is a piece of art and we are always in the process of creating our own master