The New Teaching Method Of Grit

In conclusion, grit is found to be an essential quality of learning for students to achieve high standards of perseverance and passion characteristic trait. It is a character trait that is associated with success whereas every student or learner who has grit is likely to succeed in their learning

Grit, what is this? Is it success, is it failure, or is it talent? As Angela Duckworth said “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. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.” Grit is a combination of strength, persistence, focus, and dedication that helps a person to maintain the optimism and discipline needed to persevere in their goals even if they are head to head with failure. Grit does not depend on talent, IQ, or success. Grit is the ability to fail and learn from your mistake, in order to come back next

In the article of The Limits Of “Grit” by David Denby there are plenty of interesting ideas that are brought up. One of the ideas that Denby brings up is teaching grit in schools. Denby thinks the idea of teaching grit should be taught it all schools. One point that Denby brings up is when he says the following “ If we suffer from a grit deficiency in this country, it shows up in our unwillingness to face what is obviously true—that poverty is the real cause of failing schools.” ( Denby,4) Denby explains that poverty is the real reason why some

Throughout Grit, Angela Duckworth argues that grit is the single most important factor in determining success of an individual. She splits the argument into three parts: the concept of grit and why it matters, the proper use and understanding of the goal hierarchy, and how an individual can develop grit. Duckworth’s argument is important because it replaces the traditional viewpoint of success being determined by talent to one which sees success as a result of passion and perseverance.

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 it's a marathon, not a sprint.” (TED

Grit is a predictor of academic, professional, and personal success. Grit can be defined as strength of character or the ability to overcome failure and continue to work toward success. People with grit are not always the people with the most natural ability, but their work ethic and ability to overcome obstacles allows them to achieve success. Grit is a very valuable characteristic in almost any venture, as it gives someone an advantage in overcoming the inevitable obstacles they will face. However, grit is much easier adopted when an individual has a growth mindset.

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

Cognitive development can be defined as a field of study in neuroscience and psychology revolving around the growth of the brain (Schacter & Woods 2009). This development is the evolution of skills such as, information processing, perceptual skills, conceptual resourcing, language knowledge and other brain development traits (ibid).

Duckworth’s main point in, “Grit is Better than IQ” is to make the argument that perseverance is more important than just being intelligent, and that the current generation needs to break free from the idea that they do not know how to work hard while learning pure grit. I agree that grit can be more important in life outside of school than test scores were while the students were obtaining an education. Other than that, I disagree with most of Duckworth’s argument; grit cannot be taught in a classroom and it definitely cannot be learned by a student who does not see the value in it. Neither teachers nor parents can teach or force their kids to be grittier.

Recently, I have observed the Ted video on Angela Duckworth and read the article “Angela Duckworth on Passion, Grit and Success,” by Julie Scelfo. These two sources are non-fiction stories. Angela Duckworth, an optimistic seventh grade math teacher, noticed a trend regarding her student’s behaviour. For instance, some of the children who are smart were not striving. Also, some students were taking a longer time to understand the material that is presented to them in class. This led to the decision for Angela to quit teaching and to go to college and become a psychologist. Angela soon came up with an answer to the questions of why people are not interested in certain things, and how to become successful in life. Based on her studies, Angela came up with Grit. Grit is passion and perseverance for long term goals. Grit is measured by using the “Grit scale.” The “gritter” you are, the higher the chances of you of becoming more successful in life.

During the process of having grit, the individual is determined to stick to a plan and execute it, only as long as the individual continues to have passion and perseverance. One does not consider that during this process, the individual who defines as low-income, for the sole purposes of this research, can come across potential barriers that can arise during the time the process of acquiring grit. For example, a low-income student from the Los Angeles metropolitan area who resides in South Los Angeles (an area known for its high poverty level) , will suffer from educational attainment and lack of proper education due to the area the individual resides in. Lack of resources for this individual may consist of lack of college readiness courses throughout their HS, lack of family stability (a common factor found in First Gen students), and lack of proper basic knowledge needed in order to succeed graduating from HS. Therefore, the possibility of a low-income student acquiring grit is very little due to the barriers the individual or their families face.

The idea of grit is to be used to help students improve on goals they’ve made, but in the The Downside of Grit by Alfie Kohn he would argue that somethings are better left alone instead of trying to pursue them and achieving them with little success. Kohn claims that grit can be counterproductive because anyone could be continuing something that doesn’t make them content with the outcome. He also discusses about how people with grit could experience issues with psychological health when you try over and over again and end up with continuous failure. It would be better to find an alternative pathway that would cause less stress, and end with success. Another argument that Kohn has is against the reliability of the research done on grit doesn’t rely on evidence. It

In the article, Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes, by Angela L. Duckworth and David Scott Yeager, address confusion over terminology, debate over the optimal name for this broad category of personal qualities obscures substantial agreement about the specific attributes worth measuring, discuss advantages and limitations of different measures, compare self-report questionnaires, teacher-report questionnaires, and performance tasks, discuss how each measure’s imperfections can affect its suitability for program evaluation, accountability, individual diagnosis, and practice improvement. It also states only measurement makes it possible to observe patterns and to

Standardized tests do not give us a complete and direct measure of student achievement because they often only measure the goals of education(Harris). And while teachers and administration are forced to increase preparation for these tests, important -arguably more important - skills are being overlooked. Here are some attributes that standardized tests do not even try to cover: creativity, motivation, persistence, curiosity, reliability, critical thinking, self-awareness, leadership, civic-mindedness, empathy, courage, compassion, sense of beauty and wonder, honesty and integrity. Surely these are all “achievements” that students should be experiencing, so why don’t schools these as well as academic goals? Rochelle Gutiérrez, a member of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics says "Achievement—all the outcomes that students and teachers attain. Achievement is more than test scores but also includes class participation, students' course-taking patterns, and teachers' professional development patterns"(Harris). These are all qualities that standardized tests cannot measure.

What is grit? How will grit be used as a part of education? Should grit be seen as an advantage or disadvantage? Is grit going to harm the children or better them? Will grit make parents concern or satisfy with the way their kids are being taught? How will grit make sure the children succeed in the future? When should grit be introduce to the children? Who should be qualify to teach the class? Where will grit take place in their life as adults? Why will grit be concern as a need in