Week 8 Growth Mindset

As I was reviewing my original post regarding the growth mindset from week one, I was happy to see that I've stuck true to what I had written. It turns out that my graduate level course is actually my favorite and the teacher makes things very easy to understand.

Reading through the list on the assignment page, I realized that through this class I am able to take constructive feedback much better than I had been before. I would like good feedback because I know that that is what is going to help me succeed in all my classes, and even life outside of school. Something I really need to work on in this class especially is not waiting until the last minute to do assignments. For the past two or so weeks, I've waited until right before the deadline to complete my work, so the more ahead I can be in this class the better.

One way this class can help with strengths is that it can help me to push past just doing the minimum. This builds on learning rather than going for the grade. Although the popular saying in college of "C's get degrees" rings true, I would much rather earn my degree than just get it. This means that I have to work hard to understand the materials I'm learning in other classes and use this to solve real life problems one day.

One of my biggest weaknesses in my life is not asking questions. I always think that people don't have time to answer them, and even worse that people will make fun of me for the questions I ask because they tend to be no-brainers a lot of the time. Through this class I've learned that it is okay to ask questions and that it is a necessary part of learning. This is something that I am trying to implement into all of my classes!

(Stretch yourself to learn something new,

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Although I have never heard of Carol Dweck before, I really like what she says about learning! It is very different than what most people view as far as learning and having only a certain capacity. I think that it is much more positive and constructive than just letting a person believe that they have reached their highest mental capacity. The growth mindset is very interesting and I think it would be a valuable thing to learn more about!

 I would like to think that I have more of a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset. I try to put this mindset into action as much as possible in school by reading and bettering my school work. My parents always told me and my siblings that they were proud of us, so long as we tried our best, even if it wasn't an "A" and I think that definitely helped each of us have a growth mindset rather than a fixed. I am involved in music and it is easily seen that you must have a growth mindset when it comes to anything involving the arts. No one will ever be one of the greats when they first begin anything having to do with the arts, you must work towards it and accept the challenges that come along with being a musician.

One of the biggest things with learning that I have learned while at OU is that college is different from high school. My high school wasn't an easy one and I took multiple AP courses over my four years while attending, but the study skills in college is much different than that of high school. It's much more independent learning and reading while for the most part you could get away without reading in high school.

I think that the growth mindset will be very valuable for this year because I am taking some difficult classes that take personable accountability. I am in a graduate course this year, so it will be much more of a challenge than my undergrad classes, however I am very excited for this class because it seems as though it will be fun and interesting! I want to be able to challenge myself and learn this semester, and I definitely think that the growth mindset will help me accomplish this!

(I drive my own learning;

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