My Use Of Grit In The Classroom

Imagine a world in which “grit” was rarely valued amongst people--a world in which no one wished to work hard to achieve their goals, and gave up as soon as hardships came their way. Imagine regressing hundreds of years back, simply because no one had been determined enough to continue pushing themselves, and grant us with the countless advancements we have been gifted with today. On the other hand, envision a world in which people all around the world were completely driven by the prospect of achieving success, persevering against all odds. They would display is an example of “grit”. Angela Lee Duckworth, a speaker from the TED Talk “The Key to Success? Grit”, believes grit is “passion and perseverance for very long term goals.” To her, “Grit

Duckworth explains people with grit are those who confront failure and don’t give up easily. She did research on the U.S Army to determine their grit. She realize, if the soldiers had a though of mind of grit they showed good results in their military performance on summer camp. Also, there was a fascinating research she had with taxi drivers relating to grit. Commonly, one would think that taxi drivers make more money in a rainy day. But what she found out was that taxi drivers work less hours in rainy days because they would make the sufficient money they needed for the day. In similarity, she compare this research to talent and grit. One with talent will spent less time on something so they stop immediately once they have proficient. In the other hand, someone with grit will spend longer time and get more out of it.

When it comes to bullying in schools it has plenty of negative effects on some individual students. There are some kids who don’t have a problem with bullying because they are the problem.

The significance of grit is discussed in a 2013 article published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. To introduce this article the author prompts Angela Lee Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been studying grit for the past 11 years, to define “resilience in learning.” This opens up discussion about how differently words such as grit or resilience can be interpreted, and identifies some distinct similarities within individual definitions. Resilience can refer to an overall positivity in a person, as the ability to “bounce back” from a failure or disappointment, or can even be attributed to children who thrive despite an at-risk environment. In the end, regardless of personal definitions, resilience is associated with individuals who succeed.

Angela developed a short questionnaire called the “Grit Test”. One must answer the short questions and the results show where you stand on the scale of Grit. She found that the Grit score of someone predicts the level of the achievement they can have under difficult or challenging circumstances. She tried this test at the United States Military Academy, where she had the cadets take the short test and found that the ones who had the highest Grit were the ones who were most likely to go the through with the stringent training program they went through called the “Beast Barracks”. Not the ones with the highest IQ’s, the most talent, or even the most athletic. She tried again in the Scripp’s Spelling Bee, and saw that those who were most intelligent but had a low Grit score were most likely to not make it as far as those who had a higher score. She declared that those who had higher Grit were more likely to pass because they studied harder and with determination. In all of those, it seemed that Grit was the factor that made the students stand out when it came to success, once again proving high IQ’s always being better wrong. Logos is a bit short, as many times in other articles, Grit is simply a glossed over idea that has been thought of up before. In other places, such as a physics teacher and his students in a school in Australia, he saw that Grit had little to do with

When discussing grit, it is important that one understands both sides of the argument. The persistence to complete a goal and the ability to endure adversity is the core of what it means to have grit. Growing up, children were often told the common phrase, “If at first, you don't succeed try, try, again”. This quote is often used to teach children to never give up, a way to ensure that they can triumph over adversity and grow upon their grit. The discussion of grit has grown over the past couple of years with advocators of grit like, Angela Duckworth, having written books and doing lectures on this topic. The same can be said for critics of grit, like David Denby, who has done articles for “The New Yorker”, criticizing the value of just

Psychologists have been researching what traits are highest correlated with success for decades. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Duckworth, has come across a breakthrough in the secret of success, but Marcus Crede disagrees. In Anya Kamenetz’s article “MacArthur ‘Genius’ Angela Duckworth Responds To A New Critique Of Grit” she discusses assistant professor of psychology Marcus Crede’s assessment of grit, which he effectively denounces Duckworths findings. Crede argues, “Effect sizes in one of Duckworth's major papers on grit were described incorrectly to sound misleadingly large. The impact of grit is exaggerated, especially when looking at broader populations of people.” Therefore, Crede states that Duckworths findings

Duckworth (2013) defines and explains grit as “Passion, perseverance, and stamina” she goes on to state that these characteristics or grit, “outweigh IQ as a predictor of success.” Based on Gladwell’s explanation of 10,000 hours of practice and the direct correlation to success, it can also be concluded that individuals that complete 10,000 hours of practice in their respective fields have passion and drive could also be described as

Have you ever set a long-term goal and were so determined to meet that goal no matter what happened? Angela Duckworth states, “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in and 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”. Sticking with a long-term goal, when you seem to have hit every bump in the road possible means that you contain grit. In class, we discussed how talent is inversely related to grit. Angela Duckworth did a study and made high school students take her grit test. In this test, she realized that the more grit that the student possessed, the higher chance that student would graduate.

Angela Duckworth’s claims on “Grit” being the fundamental trait of success are easily found false by Marcus Crede. This professor at Iowa State University conducted an investigation of Duckworth’s research under a multitude of her studies including her SAT statistics in relation to “Grit” and where she contrived her “genius” idea from. The deceit of Duckworth’s can be clearly seen by any statistics student with her claimed correlation between students with higher SAT scores and those who were perceived as “Gritty” of only .20 (or twenty percent). Her data can be found irrelevant in this case because in the statistics world, such a small percentage would be considered null once tested. Especially since it is based

Have you ever deeply thought about why people become successful? It may be surprising that intelligence is not the key component to achieving something; neither popularity nor social skills. It’s grit, the ability to preserve through obstacles to reach a long-term goal that means a lot to oneself. According to Angela Duckworth from the TEDTalk, “The key to success? Grit,” this characteristic is the most important when working toward a long-standing goal. It demonstrates the overcoming of difficulty and working through it. Grit can be described as a passionate resilience to reach an objective in the far future. It is about having stamina in your life that keeps you going and working on forthcoming hopes and dreams. In a nutshell, grit is the

“Grit: The power of passion and perseverance” by Angela Lee and “Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores” by San Klan both strongly talks about success in education. Angela Lee Duckworth went back to grad school to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor. There she studies concepts such as grit and self-control. She strives to determine how grit and self-control might predict success in academic and professional rather than IQ or family income. Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople. She also used to be a math teacher in public schools in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York. Salman "Sal" Khan is the founder and chief executive

Various statements illustrate grittier students contain behaviors somewhat not being discouraged by setback, being diligent, keeping focus on task, finishing tasks, and being a hard worker. While less gritty students, are easily being distracted by new information and task, setting a goal then suddenly choosing different goal, and having difficulty on retaining focus to their long-term goals (Chang, 2014).

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives many different definitions defining the word “grit”. A definition that caught my attention was “unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger” .It gave me a personal reference as to reaching a goal, you have to be faced with challenges that you’ll need to conquer with grit being included. In Angela Lee Duckworth’s TED Talk, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” she claims that having students being pushed to the max is the only way to see the full extent of grit, and I agree with Duckworth. I was able to demonstrate grit on becoming a better basketball play after not making the team my sophomore year of high school. Ever since I was disappointed in my results of not making the team, I had told myself this wasn’t going to mean I was done playing basketball .I gave myself perseverance in knowing I could make it next year with motivation.

Angela Duckworth was a seventh-grade teacher in New York Public Schools, and became a psychologist. She is the author of the TED Talk “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”. The main point of this TED Talk is that having grit is what will help you to succeed in life. She asks herself, who is successful and why, and she concluded that people who succeed in life are those who have grit, which is the passion and perseverance to achieve every long-term goal. She emphasized that talent or social intelligent is not what will lead you to succeed, but the key that will help you to succeed are passion and perseverance. Those who can stick with their future goals for years and work hard to make that future a reality is more likely to succeed. Moreover, she explained in her speech that growth mindset is great for building grit, which based on the TED Talk people who have a growth mindset are those people that do not believe that failure is a permanent condition. In my point of view those people who have growth mindset are more likely to be successful in life.