I have amazingly made it to the section "The Meaning of Disappointing Data" and that was a challenge. Is this reading to show an unsuccessful way to communicate with people? It is long, drawn out, and incredibly monotomous. The entire thing could probably be summed up in about 3 paragraphs just fine without losing much meaning and maintaining the audiences attention. I copied the article and pasted it into word. Then I changed the font to 10 and decrease the size of all the margins and it was still 13 pages. Was this person assigned a specific page length that they had to meet?
Based on the argument that positive self esteem is linked to your accomplishments, my self-esteem has improved greatly upon completing reading this article:) The article gives a lot of data supporting and arguing where and how self esteem is built. I maintain the author’s point that it is the significance of what you achieve and learn that promotes positive thinking and actions. Although this was a very long article it was informative.
This article was very boring, and I have to admit that I found myself skimming through many paragraphs. After reading the other comments, I went back and reread most of it. I don't understand how the studies were set up. How can they be reliable when they measure someone's feelings? Feelings change often, and can be affected by medicine or even just how the person's day is going. For example, a study can be done on my self-esteem. I feel that I have a high self-esteem but the other day I had a bad day at work. If someone would have asked me how I felt about myself the answer would have been, pretty crappy. So how do you judge my self-esteem when it can change from day to day?
Most academic writing is boring but that doesn't mean what the author has to say isn't important. Comment on the content not the style. How does what the author has to say relate to how you feel about self-esteem?
Hey! I enjoyed reading the blog you posted despite its length.
I went to high school for all 4 years at Mcgavock and I think I have a general undestanding of how the students feel and think about themselves. It would be hard to get raw, hard data out of high school students at Mcgavock High because most of the students would just throw away the piece of paper with the survey on it. While I don't know if students having higher self-esteem would have somewhat of an effect on school performance,I don't think it would have a major effect. I've seen many students who don't do their work whether they feel good or bad about themselves. I agree strongly with this sentence: "Students acquire a sense of significance from doing significant things, from being active participants in their own education." Personally, when I feel good about myself, I want to get into my schoolwork, and I get things done. I was a rare kind of student back in high school though. I always had good self esteem and wanted to get things done, while the other students didn't care and did not get things done. I don't know that raising many of the students self esteem would help, but their low self esteem certainly does not help.
I Donzella Murphy Geter, think that the article was very interesting. I see that researchers still have the same problem on agreeing on one anothers opinion's as they do on so many issues. I feel that self-esteem comes from within you as well as the way you see things around you.
This article was informative and some of it disturbing. With my personal experience as a child growing up without a strong self esteem and raising a child of my own in a completley different enviroment and with different approaches, I have a few things to say...First I am completely against the self esteem based school in California that was described in this article. Example, enforcing statements starting with I is teaching children, "It's all about me!" Who enjoys being around someone with that kind of perception of themselves? Second,I believe rewards from hard work is a positive way of teaching self esteem in children today. Why would kids work for anything when all they have to do is pitch a fit and make (whoever) feel guilty or embarressed to get want they want and to be praised for not trying thier best. I know and believe through personal observation that those are the children who continue to live at home well into their forties. The ones who can't keep a job, call on their parents for every little thing and don't stand on there own two feet. (Why should they?) Getting what you deserve through hard work, studing,or simpling doing the best you can is a great way to develop good self esteem. Yes,some people are naturally good at certain things while others have to work extremely hard to learn or achieve certain things. We have all know someone at one time or another that made what the teacher was saying look so easy. Then there is those who have to ask it to be explain a dozen more times along with studing our butts off! Self esteem is important, but lets not confuse it's importance with a matter of success or failure. Everyone has one simple thing in common and that is our free will to be the person we want to be. Yes, we all come from different backgrounds and have our personal issues if you will, but we should and could be taught at a young age to take responsibility for ourselves. Why can't we agree on a happy medium, meaning encourage self esteem in the right ways. Praise the ones that deserve to be praised while taking notice to the ones who need extra help to achieve there goals. I believe life is all about balance and yes, self esteem is important, but it's not madatory in someone's success. I also believe that it's something that can't be measured because no one has the same self esteem, just like our personalities are all different and so is our fingerprints. Remeber this just my opinion.
I was suprised at how little viable research has been done in the field of self-esteem. If we are to successfully educate our children, as parents, teachers, and society, their self-esteem should be one of the first things to consider and build upon. What's wrong with this system??? I agree with the author that the goals for our children should and do extend beyond academics to the issue of psychological health. I also agree that the answer to improving students' self-esteem depends on our objectives, like helping them focus on effort rather than ability (i.e. scores on standardized tests) to become more absorbed with their learning. I agree with the article that this can be accomplished through the use of the "3 C's of Motivation": Collaboration, Choice, and Curriculum Content.
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I have amazingly made it to the section "The Meaning of Disappointing Data" and that was a challenge. Is this reading to show an unsuccessful way to communicate with people? It is long, drawn out, and incredibly monotomous. The entire thing could probably be summed up in about 3 paragraphs just fine without losing much meaning and maintaining the audiences attention.
I copied the article and pasted it into word. Then I changed the font to 10 and decrease the size of all the margins and it was still 13 pages. Was this person assigned a specific page length that they had to meet?
Suzanne
Based on the argument that positive self esteem is linked to your accomplishments, my self-esteem has improved greatly upon completing reading this article:) The article gives a lot of data supporting and arguing where and how self esteem is built. I maintain the author’s point that it is the significance of what you achieve and learn that promotes positive thinking and actions. Although this was a very long article it was informative.
This article was very boring, and I have to admit that I found myself skimming through many paragraphs. After reading the other comments, I went back and reread most of it. I don't understand how the studies were set up. How can they be reliable when they measure someone's feelings? Feelings change often, and can be affected by medicine or even just how the person's day is going. For example, a study can be done on my self-esteem. I feel that I have a high self-esteem but the other day I had a bad day at work. If someone would have asked me how I felt about myself the answer would have been, pretty crappy. So how do you judge my self-esteem when it can change from day to day?
......wow...I actually started to hear the teacher from Charlie Brown ...wha wha....wha wha wha....wha...boring
Most academic writing is boring but that doesn't mean what the author has to say isn't important. Comment on the content not the style. How does what the author has to say relate to how you feel about self-esteem?
Hey! I enjoyed reading the blog you posted despite its length.
I went to high school for all 4 years at Mcgavock and I think I have a general undestanding of how the students feel and think about themselves. It would be hard to get raw, hard data out of high school students at Mcgavock High because most of the students would just throw away the piece of paper with the survey on it. While I don't know if students having higher self-esteem would have somewhat of an effect on school performance,I don't think it would have a major effect. I've seen many students who don't do their work whether they feel good or bad about themselves. I agree strongly with this sentence: "Students acquire a sense of significance from doing significant things, from being active participants in their own education." Personally, when I feel good about myself, I want to get into my schoolwork, and I get things done. I was a rare kind of student back in high school though. I always had good self esteem and wanted to get things done, while the other students didn't care and did not get things done. I don't know that raising many of the students self esteem would help, but their low self esteem certainly does not help.
I Donzella Murphy Geter, think that the article was very interesting. I see that researchers still have the same problem on agreeing on one anothers opinion's as they do on so many issues. I feel that self-esteem comes from within you as well as the way you see things around you.
This article was informative and some of it disturbing. With my personal experience as a child growing up without a strong self esteem and raising a child of my own in a completley different enviroment and with different approaches, I have a few things to say...First I am completely against the self esteem based school in California that was described in this article. Example, enforcing statements starting with I is teaching children, "It's all about me!" Who enjoys being around someone with that kind of perception of themselves? Second,I believe rewards from hard work is a positive way of teaching self esteem in children today. Why would kids work for anything when all they have to do is pitch a fit and make (whoever) feel guilty or embarressed to get want they want and to be praised for not trying thier best. I know and believe through personal observation that those are the children who continue to live at home well into their forties. The ones who can't keep a job, call on their parents for every little thing and don't stand on there own two feet. (Why should they?) Getting what you deserve through hard work, studing,or simpling doing the best you can is a great way to develop good self esteem. Yes,some people are naturally good at certain things while others have to work extremely hard to learn or achieve certain things. We have all know someone at one time or another that made what the teacher was saying look so easy. Then there is those who have to ask it to be explain a dozen more times along with studing our butts off! Self esteem is important, but lets not confuse it's importance with a matter of success or failure. Everyone has one simple thing in common and that is our free will to be the person we want to be. Yes, we all come from different backgrounds and have our personal issues if you will, but we should and could be taught at a young age to take responsibility for ourselves. Why can't we agree on a happy medium, meaning encourage self esteem in the right ways. Praise the ones that deserve to be praised while taking notice to the ones who need extra help to achieve there goals. I believe life is all about balance and yes, self esteem is important, but it's not madatory in someone's success. I also believe that it's something that can't be measured because no one has the same self esteem, just like our personalities are all different and so is our fingerprints. Remeber this just my opinion.
I was suprised at how little viable research has been done in the field of self-esteem. If we are to successfully educate our children, as parents, teachers, and society, their self-esteem should be one of the first things to consider and build upon. What's wrong with this system??? I agree with the author that the goals for our children should and do extend beyond academics to the issue of psychological health. I also agree that the answer to improving students' self-esteem depends on our objectives, like helping them focus on effort rather than ability (i.e. scores on
standardized tests) to become more absorbed with their learning. I agree with the article that this can be accomplished through the use of the "3 C's of Motivation": Collaboration, Choice, and Curriculum Content.
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