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mme_sutherland

The science of resilience: how to teach students to persevere | Teacher Network | The G... - 0 views

  • When you incorporate opportunities for students to experience mistakes as an expected part of learning, you build their resilience to setbacks. Through class discussions, your own mistakes, and building pupils’ knowledge of their brain’s programming, your students will gain the competence, optimism and understanding to persevere – and even make progress – through failure.
jenkinsmg77

Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Scientific American Blog Network - 1 views

  • exclusive focus on ability and potential can distract us from the importance of other variables important for success
  • focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort"
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  • , Brent Roberts has done a lot of work on "conscientiousness", Robert Vallerand has down a lot to advance our understanding of passion (both its "harmonious" and "obsessive" forms), Shane Lopez has done great deal of research on hope, and creativity researchers Joseph Renzulli and E. Paul Torrance have long discussed the importance of characteristics such as "task commitment" and "persistence".
garth nichols

http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/files/2013/02/OET-Draft-Grit-Report-2-17-13.pdf - 0 views

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    This is a comprehensive assessment of WHAT, HOW and WHY to teaching GRIT and PERSEVERANCE. There are some ties to digital citizenship as well.
celeste Kirsh

Diving Into Deeper Learning: Marc Chun | TedX DenverTeachers - 1 views

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    "The complex issues we face today require a key set of problem-solving skills.  How can schools best prepare students to be ready to take on these challenges?  How can they help ensure students have the "deeper learning" skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and metacognition, as well as have the content knowledge they need?  Presented by Marc Chun, Education Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation. "
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    Hi Celeste, This is a great video for me! I'm going to be looking at building grit and perseverance in the classroom context, and these skills are all a part of "intellectual character" that I am exploring. thanks, garth.
garth nichols

We're Teaching Grit the Wrong Way - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

  • Good self-control has also been shown to be a key component of grit — perseverance in the face of educational challenges. It’s no wonder, then, that colleges have placed great emphasis on teaching students better self-control.
  • But the strategies that educators are recommending to build that self-control — a reliance on willpower and executive function to suppress emotions and desires for immediate pleasures — are precisely the wrong ones. Besides having a poor long-term success rate in general, the effectiveness of willpower drops precipitously when people are feeling tired, anxious, or stressed. And, unfortunately, that is exactly how many of today’s students often find themselves.
  • Efforts to emphasize willpower and executive function to achieve self-control are largely ineffective in helping those students.
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  • ortunately, there is a solution. For millennia, what ensured long-term success was cooperation. Strong interpersonal relationships were necessary to thrive. But to be identified as a good partner, a person had to be trustworthy, generous, fair, and diligent. She had to be willing to sacrifice immediate self-interest in order to share with and invest in others. In short, she had to have good character.
  • When a person feels grateful, he’ll work harder and longer to pay others back as well as pay favors forwar
  • For example, in adaptations of the marshmallow test for college students — in which differing amounts of cash were used instead of sweets — we found that leading people to feel grateful doubled the value they placed on future gains, and thereby doubled their willingness to wait for larger amounts of money in the future rather than take smaller amounts of money in the moment. Feelings of pride and compassion work in a similar way.
  • The upshot is that by increasing the value the mind places on future rewards, these emotions enable people to cooperate more with their own future selves as well as with others.
  • It matters what path people use. As one example, grit combined with gratitude is a strong predictor of resilience with respect to lowered suicidal thoughts among college students. On its own, however, grit isn’t associated with this buffering effect.
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