When she was 27 years old, she left her job in consulting to become a teacher of Math to seventh graders students in a New York public school. After five years teaching, she realised that the students' IQ is not the most important when talking about academic results. What was much more important was an understanding of the students themselves and their learning process from a phsycological and motivational prespective. So, she decided to go back to university to study phsycology.
She and her research team studied how students and even adults behave in life. After their ressearch, they came to the point that there are important things to take into account to success in life but these things are not having a good look or having a great social intelligence... She believes that the word GRIT is the key.
Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals, grit is stiking with your future, day in and day out, not just for a week, not just for a month but for years and working really hard to make that future a reality. She started studying the term grit and passed grit questionnaires among her students. In the video she states that the most shocking thing about grit is being concious how we built it.
My opinion:
I definitely agree with what she says in her talk. I agree that passing the IQ test with a high mark is not the most important aim. I think that you may have a high level of knowledgements but you may not be practical enough to face life. I think that growing students' grid is very important to help them to cope with their future. However, I know that it's a hard work for teachers to reach it.
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