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James Dalziel

Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals - 0 views

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Grit Perseverance Long term goals UPenn UWCSEA Profile Resilience

shared by James Dalziel on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • James Dalziel on 08 Feb 13
     
    The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1noncognitive trait: grit. Drive and energy in childhood are more predictive of success, if not creativity, than is IQ or some other more domain-specific ability" (p. 293)
Sean McHugh

Educational Leadership:Sustaining Change:Getting into the Habit of Reflection - 1 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
  • In teaching, as in life, maximizing meaning from experiences requires reflection.
  • Every school's goal should be to habituate reflection throughout the organization—individually and collectively, with teachers, students, and the school community
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  • the school needs to create an atmosphere for reflection
  • a time and a place for looking backward and inward, not forward and outward
  • We are going to take a break from what we have been doing, stand back, and ask ourselves, What have we learned from doing our work today?
  • the tradition in education is to simply discard what has happened and move on to new topics. This episodic approach is reflected in both classroom instruction and assessment and in change efforts as schools frantically strive to stay abreast of an array of educational improvements and mandates. Knowledgeable, vigilant, and reflective organizations, however, view school change from a broader perspective—as a process of revealing and emancipating
  • In reflective schools, there is no such thing as failure—only the production of personal insights from one's experiences.
  • which dispositions were you most aware of in your own learning
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 29 Oct 14
       
      Meaningful engagement with the UWCSEA Profile here. 
  • Collecting work provides documentation for comparing students' levels of knowledge and performance at the beginning, middle, and end of a project.
  • Providing sentence stems might stimulate more thoughtful reflections during portfolio conferences (where reflection can be modeled) or as an option for those who need a "jump start" for reflections: I selected this piece of writing because. . . . What really surprised me about this writing was. . . . When I look at my other journal entries, I see that this piece is different because. . . . What makes this piece of writing strong is my use of . . . . Here is one example from my writing to show you what I mean. . . .
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