Wow, great speaker! Motivating. Success doesnt happen overnight. Grit is your key to success -- ang paging matyaga at hindi sumusuko. GRIT IS PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE FOR VERY LONG TERM GOALS. GRIT IS HAVING STAMINA. GRIT IS STICKING WITH YOUR FUTURE, DAY IN, DAY OUT. NOT JUST FOR THE WEEK, NOT JUST FOR THE MONTH, BUT FOR YEARS, AND WORKING REALLY HARD TO MAKE THAT FUTURE A REALITY. GRIT IS LIVING LIFE LIKE ITS A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT. And that got me thinking. The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, theyre hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram. BUT THESE CONCEPTS ARE NOT IMPOSSIBLE, AND I WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT EVERYONE OF MY STUDENTS COULD LEARN THE MATERIAL IF THEY WORKED HARD AND LONG ENOUGH. So far, the best idea Ive heard about building grit in kids is something called GROWTH MIND SET. This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and IT IS THE BELIEF THAT THE ABILITY TO LEARN IS NOT FIXED, THAT IT CAN CHANGE WITH YOUR EFFORT. Dr. Dweck has shown that WHEN KIDS READ AND LEARN ABOUT THE BRAIN AND HOW IT CHANGES AND GROWS IN RESPONSE TO CHALLENGE, THEYRE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO PERSEVERE WHEN THEY FAIL, BECAUSE THEY DONT BELIEVE THAT FAILURE IS A PERMANENT CONDITION. Angela Lee Duckworth
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:41:30 +0000