As a learner, I notice that I thrive when I can create or am given an outline/schedule to follow as I complete my assignments throughout a course. I enjoy being organized as I often can get overwhelmed if my work is not in order before me, and this can cause me to procrastinate.
I believe that a few great teachers from my primary school years have impacted my life as a learner. In primary school, I had a few teachers who focused on what it meant to be a self-aware learner and learning how to recognize my own strengths in order to build on areas that I felt underdeveloped in.
I got a score of 24 on the mindset quiz, which stated that I possessed a strong growth mindset.
I believe that the connection between my mindset and my learning experience is very strong due to the fact that my growth mindset has always allowed me to view all of my experiences in learning as positive. I found that receiving feedback allowed me to learn new things about my own learning process and how to make positive changes to help myself in the future.
I actively monitor my own learning as a college student and submit rough drafts of my work to the writing center regularly to receive the feedback of others. I also maintain contact with my professors to ask them questions about productive ways to take notes for their class and how I should prepare myself for large assignments or exams.
Hello, I as well need to organize or my mind well be overwhelm and running fast speed. I also believe teacher have a impact in students but I feel it happens more in elementary school than middle or high school, I feel that whatever happens in elementary schools students carry that negative or positive comments with them. I as well have a growth mindset, I go and talk to teachers even though for me is hard but I do it anyways, I take the comments from teachers to improve too. But with the writing center I have hard time signing up because it gets full fast. Thank you for sharing.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! I'd like to add that being organized and maintaining focus on due dates plays a part in your growth mindset as well. The reason I feel like this is because to be prepared helps with you achieve the best education you can possible obtain. I loved your ideas as well about the correlation between your learning and mindset. I related to your blog in a variety of ways that was very interesting to me.
Kyla, I agree with you I also have to stay organized to do my task and if I don't I also get overwhelmed. Being taught to be organized at a young age can be very beneficial to the student as they get older because that trait can stay with them. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteIt is so great to hear about when teachers have positively impacted people's lives. I have had lots of good teachers in my life. One that I hold closest to my heart is my freshmen English teacher because he showed me being a teacher does not have to be boring. He inspired me to become a teacher, but it just took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to teach. Also, I am the same way when it comes to organization. I love being organized and having a plan for each day. For fun as a kid I use to draw up "to do lists." This quarter has been very stressful because it is not organized how I usually organize things. I now have to list out when things are due and go down that list. I am adjusting, but it is not something I prefer because I like knowing what I can accomplish in a day. When you bring up talking to your teachers it reminds me of never being afraid to ask questions. I would ask people around me who were too scared to speak up and ask for them.
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