Growth Mindset: Personal Accountability and Reflection
I am an adjunct faculty for several teacher education and educational technology programs. I have been so for a few decades. During that time I have noticed the changing nature of student behaviors and expectations regarding their class projects and assignments. Students seem to expect perfect grades for not so perfect work. I can predict that when I “mark down” a student, I will receive a complaint about that mark down (it happened just this evening) even with clear cut and concrete grading criteria like uses references to support ideas in blog posts, includes copyright available images.
I have been studying, blogging and presenting about the growth mindset (see The Educator with a Growth Mindset: A Staff Workshop). When speaking of a growth mindset, a fixed mindset also needs to be discussed and described. Fixed mindsets are associated with avoiding failure at all costs. What I don’t see mentioned as part of a fixed, or maybe they be called toxic mindsets, are characteristics or attitudes like:
- Mediocre is often good enough for me as long as I get the work done.
- I expect my teachers to give me full credit for completion and submission of my work. Quality is not a variable.
- It is okay to just do “enough” work to minimally fulfill the requirements.
- Good grades are what really matter to me. I am not really interested in receiving qualitative feedback.
In response to these experiences, I developed a Personal Accountability and Reflection series of questions. I will suggest that students use this “checklist” in order to develop and enhance their growth mindsets through personal accountability and reflection.
- Did I work as hard as I could have?
- Did I set and maintain high standards for myself?
- Did I spend enough time to do quality work?
- Did I regulate my procrastination, distractions, and temptations in order to complete my work?
- Did I make good use of available resources?
- Did I ask questions if I needed help?
- Did I review and re-review my work for possible errors?
- Did I consider best practices for similar work?
- Is my work something for which I am proud – that I would proudly show to a large, global audience?
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