Growth Mindset: Feedback in the Learning Process

In researching the feedback portion of the growth mindset I found an image that shows the cycle of the learning process. From this cycle, I recognized the starting point of perceiving. This is where information is given and first absorbed. This is the most basic step in learning and gets the ball rolling on the whole process. The next step is deciding. In this step you decide what this information and what it means and what you gain from it. The third strep is acting which means what we do with the information. The last part in the cycle before that leads back to the beginning is feedback. Feedback is very important and could be one of the most difficult steps. For feedback to work, you first have to be accepting of the feedback and willing to accept criticism and failure in order to learn from this process and improve. This feedback can be from yourself or from an outside source. This is the part that restarts the cycle because by taking in feedback, you are inputting more information which is the perceiving step. I am interested in finding out if there are possibly other steps that could be added to this cycle or if there are ways to break one of the steps into multiple steps. Are there different ways to follow this cycle or pieces of these steps that we are missing? To find this out I can look at different learning strategies which will also help me become a better learner.

The Learning Process by Hina Kaynat of Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Growth Mindset

I had never heard of Carol Dweck or the growth mindset before. My general thoughts about growth mindset is that it is something that is very beneficial and can be helpful for many students, but growth mindset should not be the way that school primarily works. I thing that part of school should be based around growth mindset, but as discussed, it does not work well with grade based systems and this is required to some extent in order to evaluate performance of college and job considerations.

School (Pixabay)

One thing that I believe Carol Dweck is overlooking is that when they go to schools to implement test growth mindset in the classroom, they are providing higher education than would be provided in these areas. This could show that part of the problem in these areas is the under funding of the education system which I think is a major problem.