
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
you know maybe you made a huge mistake and bombed your biology test or crashed your parent’s car but at least you weren’t stupid enough to fight the russians in russia
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Any teacher can tell you this. This is why it is important to praise students for the work they put into something. You, as a teacher, can influence this mindset.
Take, for example, two apparently similar bits of praise:
“Wow, that’s great. You’re really good at this.”
Versus
“Wow, that’s great. You’ve worked really hard on this.”
It would seem, to the casual observer, that the first is a “self-esteem booster” while the second is just a “motivational booster”.
The problem is that the first type of praise contributes to a mindset that people either “get it” or they don’t; they’re “smart” or they’re not; nothing can be done to change that. (This is what the infographic is calling a fixed mindset. Educators usually call it an inherent intelligence mindset.)
The second type of praise still indicates that the student might, in fact, be good at it, but it also reinforces the idea that hard work and effort makes it possible to learn and develop. It also works in a social-cognitive mode to reinforce this idea to the other students. (The infographic has this labeled as the growth mindset. It’s usually referred to as a developmental intelligence model in education texts.)
While it is true that some of this is part of the student’s own frame of mind, a lot of it can be influenced by the pedagogical methods of the teacher.
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Dean: …um…
Death: Shut up, Dean!
#the one character in supernatural that doesn’t have haters
everyone loves Death
everyone loves Death
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Me too buddy. Me too.
the best part for me is the utter shock of the server
THIS CANNOT BE
MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD
This man is just like traumatized for life like-
He has to go into counseling for this shit
His family and friends and even coworkers feel alienated
“Henry we talked about this-“
“HE TOOK THE ICE CREAM WITH HIS HANDS”
“Henry that’s what he’s supposed to do-“
“I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE ORDERED A CONE IF HE WAS JUST GONNA TAKE THE ICE CREAM-“
“If he gave you the money that’s what he’s supposed to d-“
“A CUP IS 50 CENTS CHEAPER”
He never has healthy relationships with anyone ever again.
His life has been defined by this moment.
This poor guy
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Francis Alÿs, The Nightwatch, 2004 [x]
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.