Promoting Growth Mindsets in Teaching

Thanks to mindsets, students hold about their intellectual ability can have a significant impact on their motivation and success in school. Also, their intelligence may improve and their effort is affected in a positive manner. This also increases their challenges in order to learn more.

My name in Calligrraphy style ( It is not exact style )

In my primary school years, I had a teacher who promoted growth mindsetes in teaching. He always created a challenge in class environment and after that he gave us a feedback about this challenge.Also, we always debate each other. Teacher gave us two topics such as: "Who knows better; traveller or reader?" My teacher also rewarded and praised us who are better in class in that day. The one who is succesful, our teacher wrote our names in paper with Calligraphy style. It seems now simple thing but we would be so happy when we got that. This experience increased my grades because it gave me more confident and I believed that If I comprehend more, I will be more succesful. That's how I motivate myself. Thanks to these, I believe I grow my intelligence.OF COURSE THANKS TO MY TEACHER! :)

Constructivist Debate

Constructivism approach is to learn actively and it based on observation through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. For students, they shoul be an active creators of their own knowledge. That is, Sarabinh’s approach is consistent with a constructivist learning philosophy. Because by using this theory, she takes some risks and she should be careful while guiding and monitoring students in a meaningful way. This process is really heplful for students because of some reasons. First of all, debating is priority for constructivism. So, debating some problems help students think in conflicting way. And this make them understand and stick the subject in their mind. Also, thanks to interaction, it forces to join some introverted students the class and this make them more comfortable and active in class. Moreover, while debating and conflicting, students broad their horizons because of information exchange. Beside these positive sides, there can be drawback while using this theory. Teacher is more important factor in this theory because if the teacher isnt qualified well, there can be some issues/problems. Like I mentioned before, teacher should monitor and guide students well. Otherwise, students get confused and conflict can be turned into a disaster. Teacher should be careful and clear while giving the instruction. And also, timing is very important because some students are really talkative and some students are really shy. So, in order to be fair for them time-limited should be used in that approach. In the future, when I become teacher, I can use this theory because I believe interaction is the most effective way to teach students. However, being teacher is not enough. I have to be effective and qualified and I should never stop learning. Thus, I will be more comfortable when I am qualified and effective teacher.