d.i. ronda

this is my very first school assignment after a year of work. grabe! weird but, i missed doing these things... hehe!

Andro Cuevas

HUBEHOR EF

PYGMALION EFFECT

The Pygmalion effect or Rosenthal elect refers to situations in which students performed better than other students, simply because they were expected to do so. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect)

This was a study done by Rosenthal (1968) and Jacobson (1992) where teachers selected students from their class randomly and told them that they have a greater chances to develop (intelligence) than their other classmates. The selected students indeed showed more development compared to the other students. This effect manifested the true power of the human brain (similar to mind-over matter), that when people strongly believe that they could do well on something, they will.

I experienced Pygmalion effect when I was taking PETWODA (Dancing). I know for a fact that if there is one thing I’m not good at, it’s dancing. I move very awkwardly and my body is really not that flexible.

It was our first day; our professor-slash-dance instructor taught us warm-up dance routines. He looked at me from head to feet and back again and told be that I have “the moves”. At first, I thought that he was just making fun of me but weeks passed and he always uses me as an example in front of the class whenever there is a new step to demonstrate. Personally, I still couldn’t believe that I have the thing he calls “the moves” but as the course progressed, I developed my confidence and really started to like dancing.

It surprised my whole family (who knows for a fact that I suck in dancing) when I told them that I was to be awarded best male dancer at the culminating activity. They couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw me pull-off tango, cha-cha, jive and other dances. If it wasn’t for my professor who saw the dance instructor within me, I would have gotten 0.0 on that class. He even told me that I could be a part-time DI! But to tell you the truth, up to now, I still see an awkward dancer whenever I go in front of the mirror.