Author: nvandermerwe

September 16, 2019 No Responses

4 Moves, Dweck, Lukianoff/Haidt, Roth

Carol Dweck, Professor at Stanford University, suggests the importance of a “growth mindset” to her readers and listeners, but most importantly to teaching techniques. One way she suggests developing the “growth mindset” is by, “praising the process that kids engage...
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September 15, 2019 No Responses

Revision Plan, Paper 1

What big concerns did you have about your draft as you completed the first draft? One of my biggest concerns about my draft as I was completing it was supplying enough and the correct textual evidence to support my claim. Another concern...
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September 9, 2019 No Responses

Men’s Club Volleyball

The University of New England offers a wide variety of clubs and groups for a variety of people of all interests. One club that sparks curiosity is the men’s club volleyball. There’s a women’s and men’s club volleyball team at...
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September 9, 2019 No Responses

The Difference Between Coddling and ‘Safe Spaces’

Sometimes in order to be comfortable with having or develop a “growth mindset” people need to be able to have a “safe space” available to the them. One of the purposes of “safe spaces” is to allow students, “to be...
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September 9, 2019 No Responses

Barclay’s Formula

In order to create a healthier and more productive learning environment professors and students need to inherit a “growth mindset.” If professors can teach their students to, “push out of their comfort zone to learn something new and difficul...
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September 9, 2019 No Responses

Project 1

Society, through the years, has been faced with a dilemma of productively teaching their students. Many philosophers and professionals have tried to accomplish this task with interpreting the situation at hand. Professor Carol Dweck, of Stanford University, be...
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September 6, 2019 No Responses

The Coddling of the American Mind Response Questions

Over recent years micro-aggressions and tigger warnings have become much more specific and “extreme.” Americans today are fearful for their children growing up in a world with so much hate and so much violence, mentally and physically. After a mult...
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August 28, 2019 No Responses

Carol Dweck’s Ted Talk: The Power of Believing That You Can Improve

     “Fixed Mindset” is a mindset an individual might have where they are stuck in, as Professor Dweck calls the, “now,” or the, “not yet” zones (Dweck). They are unwilling to or unable to look to the future for...
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