Starting from when we are just babies we learn habits from those around us, we continue do this we grow and start to form our own habits. We learn to walk and talk from our parents, to compete with others from our friends or siblings. But some of our more serious habits can be learned from those we are trying to help us succeed such as our teachers. Starting from preschool and never ending our teachers tell us that we should finish all of our homework and do it right, to make a perfect score on all of our tests but what is the result of this? By growing up with our teachers telling us to be perfect we learn to become perfectionist which can, as Cameron explains, keep up in a never ending circle.(120) With the perfectionist attitude not only is our ability to complete projects affected, but also our censor. Our censor is what Cameron describes as the voice inside of us that comments on everything we do. (11) It is our “Internal Critic.”(Cameron, 11) but it is affected by the habits we pick up. With our teachers telling us to be perfect our censor is morphed into a negative voice that only tells us how bad we are doing, how we could always do better, how we never will be able to be happy with what we accomplish. Starting at an early age teachers need to nurture kids by being aware of the wrong way to critic kids, allow us to avoid a perfectionist mindset by showing us that mistakes are acceptable, encouraging us and helping to form a positive voice for our censor, while also being aware of the medical issues that can come up with being a perfectionist and allowing the formation of our censor to be negative.
Initially when we start school we are carefree and only have the blind enthusiasm to grow up and learn anything possible. Bu...
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...t on how we grow, learn and think about ourselves our teachers having a momentous outcome. Teachers need to be aware of the consequences of their remarks while also encouraging students to accept mistakes. Teachers have the ability to create a perfectionist mindset with just the most insignificant comment. The results of a comment can be catastrophic and be damaging to not only the censor but the child mental ability. Our teachers can either help us grow to become accepting of mistakes and still have the drive to succeed or they can enable the perfectionist mindset and provide a negative change to the voice of a child’s censor.
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Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 2002. N. pag. Print.
DeWitte, Debra J. et al. Gateways To Art. New York City, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2012. Print.
... remove their negative thoughts and they should not rely on teachers alone. They should learn from the teacher while he or she learns from the entire students”.
One of the most important and difficult professions is teaching. Teachers play a vital role in nurturing the intellectual and social development of various students during their maturing years. Teachers employ more time with the students on a daily basis than parents do. Thus, parents entrust the teachers with an enormous responsibility to guide their children to become useful members of society; however, this task becomes difficult for a teacher when she faces the lack of respect and discipline from her students. A Pennsylvania teacher, Natalie Munroe engages a vast of stress and abuse from her students when she taught at Central Bucks East High School. Munroe posted a blog on the internet in which she addressed the problems about her students, the parents, and even the school administrators. Eventually, East High School suspended Munroe from her job over the blog. Many people believe that she is not criticizing about all her students, however, all her criticisms are geared towards the disrespectful adolescents who failed themselves by choosing not to learn; therefore, the school administrators should not suspend Monroe over a minor “profanity-laced” blog (McGraw, par. 6).
That is so true. I only cared about what kind of fool I would look like when I failed. We all know kids can be cruel when you make mistakes. Our students never want to feel the pain of ridicule. It is up to us to teach them it is okay to fail through positive reinforcement. If any of us want to have Grit we need to have optimistic approach. (Tough, 2012) Carol Dwek shares ideals in her Ted Talk called “The Power of Believing That You Can Improve.” She believes students need to feel confident and to be removed from their comfort zones, because students normally like to run from challenges. (Dwek, 2014) Challenge your students, because effort and difficulty is when neurons are making connections and kids are getting smarter. (Dwek, 2014) Dwek explains rewards should be on effort or process and not on intelligence. (Dwek, 2014) When you reward the process students have more engagement over longer periods of time and more perseverance on harder problems. (Dwek,
My research on the dangers of perfectionist thinking in academic endeavors revealed that there are two distinct types of perfectionist thinking, adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. Those with maladaptive perfectionism will have unrealistic expectations of themselves and react to situations of failure by putting off papers and essays further. The procrastination associated with maladaptive perfectionism is present in groups varying from graduate students to high achieving professionals. Those with a high level of perfectionism may also think of themselves in a negative light. In short, perfectionism can often be thought of as a tempting path to follow, but in reality perfectionism can lead down a road of misery and procrastination that can prevent students from achieving success.
Dewitte, Debra J., Ralph Larmann, and M. Kathryn. Shields. Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2012. Print.
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