According to 'Noncognitive Report' by Chicago University, there are four types of mindsets: I belong in this academic community (Belonging); My ability and competence grow with my effort (Growth Mindset); I can succeed at this (Self-efficacy); This work has value for me (Relevance/Purpose). First I belong in this academic community is that students sense they belong to classroom or school. Second, my ability and competence grow with my effort is as Carol Dweck's 'Growth Mindset', students believe that their abilities are gradually growing by putting efforts. Third I can succeed at this is about that students have confidence or believing likelihood that they are successful at study. Lastly, this work has value for me is students consider that study they are doing is relevant to their lives or feel interests.
Many people have their own mindset that makes them studying more though. I personally demonstrate more ability when I feel sense of belonging to the class. For example, I really love to study Korean History, and also I liked my history teacher since he was cool. Therefore, even though I was really bad at study when I was in middle school, always I got ‘A’s in Korean history. My personality is odd, so when I do not feel any sense of necessity to study or belonging in class, my motivation to study also plummets hard. However, as much as I interact with my professor, and when he or she gives me good feedbacks, I get a good motivation to study. Moreover, I feel strong connection with those professors’ classes, I always do more works even though I do not have to and try to be prepared before their classes. Moreover, to not lose my motivation, recently, I have been more interactive with my professors than I did in the past, therefore I feel fruitful when my professors kindly answer me and give short compliments. It does not only influence me but also it affects other people. From the Korean documentary about education, I saw the middle school students in Finland. Finland education, evaluated as one of the best educations in the world, was very impressive. They did not move to chapter unless everyone in classroom understands. According to teachers of that middle school, it is for surging students’ sense of belonging in classroom that they are members of classroom. Likewise, always not only to me but also to everyone else, sense of belonging becomes motivation to everyone and it returns into good result. Therefore, even when someone in our group make problems in doing group activity, the only way to lead that troublemaker in our group is make him or her feel the sense of belonging to our groups. Dale Carnegie said “human’s one of the most fundamental instincts is acknowledged by other people from his one of famous books titled ‘How to win friends influence people." Therefore, to me when I feel the sense of belonging to my class, I think I am acknowledged and thus, become more enthusiastic.
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Sabatino
10/4/2016 11:21:21 am
I enjoyed reading this post. I wonder how providing links to your resource materials might add more context to your post here?
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