Ave Maria College

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
HEI Unique Institutional Identifier: 09077

Name: JEANY R. MUGONG Date: Jan. 26, 2022

Course – Year & Section: BSED ENGLISH-III (1) Score: ______________

WEEKLY ACTIVITY 6
(DOCUMENTED STUDENT ESSAY 2)

Instruction: Create a documented student essay following the suggested format. Gather several
selections and observe relevant trends and issues in television or social media. Using those
references, list all ideas, facts, questions, arguments, refutations, and causes and effects that
came to your mind. Utilize those to make your paper informative, research-based, to articulate
your position, and to express one’s observations or views.

Topic: OECD: PH Students Must Change Wrong Belief about Success

Daily Inquirer
05:42 AM February 14, 2020

Many Filipino students believe that success in learning is all in the genes and that making
an effort is not a solution to low academic performance, an official of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) told a Senate hearing on Thursday.

“We find that most Philippine students do not believe in effort as a solution for learning
outcomes,” Schleicher said.

“It seems to me our children have surrendered at an early age,’’ he said. “For me, they’re
already resigned to the fact that they can’t be at that high achievement level because
they’re not born intelligent, their parents are not intelligent and didn’t go to school.”
Gatchalian said.

Briones said that unlike Schleicher, she believed culture had something to do with this
mindset. Filipinos have certain attitudes and mores that contribute to this, such as the
“bahala na (come what may)” attitude where people just take things as they come.

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Rubrics for Grading:

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Category
 It is evident that the
writer understand the
Writing Process topic, gather ideas, draft, produce a piece of writing
revise, and edit and
proofread one’s work
Satisfying arguments and
was able to convert the
Argumentation reader to your point of
view
Grammar, Was able to produce a
Punctuation and paper without common
Sentence Styles writing problems
All works are cited and Most works are cited and
Researched-Based recognized
Explanation is detailed
Explanation
and clear
The work is presented in
Neatness and a neat, and organized way
a neat, clear, organized
Organization way that is easy to read
All suggested format are
Completion followed
Writers rely on
Can be shown as not a
inspiration alone to
personal work making
two people go about it
skipping few writing
exactly the same way
processes
Convincing arguments Arguments are
but with forcefully inconclusive and have
phrased assertion on the failed to make your
paper position understood
Few errors that cause
readers to have second A series of small errors
thoughts about the detracted from your paper
content
Few works are cited and
recognized recognized
Explanation is little
Explanation is clear
difficult to understand
The work is presented in The work is presented in
an organized way but
that is usually easy to may be hard to read at
read time
Most suggested format Few suggested format are
are followed followed
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WEEKLY ACTIVITY 6
(DOCUMENTED STUDENT ESSAY 2)

Topic: OECD: PH Students Must Change Wrong Belief about Success

Carol Dweck, has shared that students who have adopted a growth mindset believe that
hard work, perseverance, and learning from mistakes give them the ability to learn and
continually develop their knowledge and skills. Students with fixed mindsets believe that
learning is based on the intelligence that they already possess and that intelligence is
unchangeable.  How do we improve students’ learning experience and make educational systems
more effective and efficient?
Growth mindset is the belief that one’s intelligence can be grown or developed with
persistence, effort, and a focus on learning. Individuals with a growth mindset believe they are
capable of learning nearly anything if they work hard and accept failures and challenges as
opportunities to grow. On the contrary, people who consider their ability to be malleable (a
growth mindset) will strive to develop it by setting challenging learning goals. They consider
effort an inherent part of the learning process and setbacks to be fruitful experiences to
assimilate. People with a growth mindset are characterized by a greater passion for learning and
a decreased anxiety about learning linked to their positive conception of failure. This leads them
to stretch and expend efforts to reach their full potential whereas people with a fixed mindset are
more likely to develop a hunger for approval that restricts them to their comfort zone. Over ten
million students represented by PISA in 2018 were not able to complete even the most basic
reading tasks – and these were 15-year-olds living in the 79 high- and middle-income countries
that participated in the test. In many countries, the quality of the education a student acquires can
still best be predicted by the student’s or his or her school’s socioeconomic background. In fact,
the 10% most socioeconomically advantaged students outperformed their 10% most
disadvantaged counterparts in reading by 141 score points, on average across OECD countries.
This adds up to the equivalent of over three years of schooling in the countries which were able
to estimate learning progress across school grades, and this gap has essentially remained
unchanged over the past decade. Moreover, there has also been no real overall improvement in
the learning outcomes of students in OECD countries.
 In almost every education system, socio-economically disadvantaged students were more
likely than advantaged students to agree that their intelligence cannot change very much over
time. In education systems with greater equity, the socio-economic gap in growth mindset tends
to be smaller. The positive association between coming from a socio-economically advantaged
background and developing a growth mindset may imply either that advantaged students are
offered more opportunities to develop a growth mindset because of appropriate educational
resources and a nurturing learning environment. In the same way as social disadvantage does not
automatically lead to poor educational performance for students and schools, the world is no
longer divided between rich and well-educated nations and poor and badly educated ones.
Without the right education, people will languish on the margins of society, countries will not be
able to benefit from technological advances, and those advances will not translate into social
progress. It will not be possible to develop fair and inclusive policies and engage all citizens if a
lack of education prevents people from fully participating in society. But change can be an uphill
struggle. Young people are less likely to invest their time and energy in better education if that
education seems irrelevant to the demands of the “real” world.
Educators, the most important—and rewarding—part of their work is to recognize the
vast potential within our students and to help them see it within themselves, and then support
them in reaching that potential. They need to create an emotionally safe learning environment.
Students’ desire and motivation to learn and succeed are increased when they feel safe to take
risks, make mistakes, and just flat-out fail, with no fear of humiliation, shame, or other unlovely
repercussions. Every student deserves the chance and has the right to explore his or her glorious
potential.