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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Wendyv7298 Date: March 8, 2020, 8:16 pm
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In my understanding grit is an idea or a persistence that forms
in a person's mind to continuously try/attempt to strive for the
better of things, this being in general, though used and
explained in the academic field in both the article, and video.
Although both arguments had truth and good reasonings in them
I'd agree with the article more, this being because I've been at
the end of both spectrums having had grit as well as having lost
it in some way.
The video explaining how grit is the idea that people who
perseve and push forward no matter how high their IQs are nor
how much talent they wield they are most likely to succeed. And
speaking statistically and scientifically this is true, though
grit isn't something you can achieve easily.
And just because people talk about it and make arguments about
it or attempt to make your grit stronger by telling you all the
things you can achieve with it doesn't mean you'll magically get
it and start succeeding in life, because for that to happen you
have to have a strong mental base in general for that. And not
everyone achieves that through constant pressure and talk about
how someone can achieve such wealth and happiness when finally
weilding this supposedly glorious thing that will magically fix
your life.
Having read the article I believe that it is necessary in all
cases for teachers to try and go deeper into the child's life
and mind rather than just pulling out some idea, although it is
important it's not the only thing that leads to this success.
The reasoning as to why this mental state isn't achievable to
many students is because of all the factors in life that could
easily vdetour them from this almost heavenly like mind set. One
of the most commonly know factor that can easily detour or rip a
student out of this path or off this path is the constantly
oppressed mental health issue that isn't oftenly taken seriously
for though many older people believe it is nearly impossible to
get this at this time and age. This being depression, something
that could easily maneuver not only students but anyone from
this mindset.
And go not keep babbling and extending this I'll go back to the
article.
Like said in the article, the importance of a deep and healthy
relationship between a student and teacher or students and
teacher can help lead and set a base for this student to find
and hopefully grab onto this idea of grit.
Having said all that I believe that grit is definitely a good
factor to have to achieve in life, but having isn't all, having
support to achieve it is an important factor too for thou those
who have achieved have had all the necessities and requests as
well as proper self care and love from not only themselves but
others too which helped them keep or achieve grit.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Alan Arcangel Date: March 8, 2020, 8:27 pm
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Grit is the concept that speaks about being determined in
achieving your goals and carrying them on even if it means
failing time after time because the more mistakes you make now,
the fewer mistakes you will make in the future.
This idea is presented in the article "What's Missing When We
Talk About Grit" by luke Reynolds and Angela Lee Duckworth's TED
talk "Grit: The power of passion and perseverance" with the
difference that video shows how with grit you can accomplish
every goal you have when you carry that grit for a long stretch
of time. However, the article talks about how by grit only
students would not find the motivation to keep trying in school
and achieve success. What it speaks about, is that making
connections with students is also crucial for the pursuit of
high accomplishments.
In my opinion, getting to know student's interests is a big help
in making them stay comfortable with learning and propel them
into a better future. I also believe that when the teacher knows
their students, students feel more excited when going into the
classroom, whereas teachers that do not get along with students
tend to make their class even more of a pain to learn. An
example of this problem is a friend of mine that takes a
geometry class where the teacher is not so friendly, in this
class almost all of the students wish to change their teacher to
one that looks like it is actually enjoying what they are doing.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Graichellm Date: March 8, 2020, 8:35 pm
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From the sources I would define grit as someone’s passion and
effort towards a certain goal.
In the video “Grit: The power of passion and perseverance”
Angela Lee Duckworth noticed that her students with higher IQ
levels weren't doing as great compared to those who had lower
levels. She explains a study she conducted on people’s success.
During this study, Duckworth would ask the question: “who would
be successful and why.” She states that a characteristic that
appeared more frequently with success was: Grit. She would state
that the people who were grittier were more successful. As those
people would put a lot of passion and effort towards their goals
than others. The main idea of this video was that grit was an
important factor when it came to success.
But in the article “What's Missing When We Talk About Grit” it
would have a different opinion. The author begins the article
revealing a story involving one of his students. He reveals that
this student wouldn’t do any kind of work during class and
simply very uninterested in the class. Reynolds expresses that
no matter how much he would try to help his student, it would
lead him further from his goal. Until one day he talked about
his childhood involving the franchise “Ghostbusters.” The
student surprisingly had a similar interest with the franchise.
The teacher would take this opportunity to bond with the child
and slowly the student would start improving. He would start
doing his work and became more interested in class. The point
that Reynolds conveys was how grit wasn't the primary factor of
success but also the relationship between a student and teacher.
I would agree more with Reynolds as I believe that having a bond
with a teacher does have a lot of impact when it comes to
learning. Being able to have a connection with a teacher would
break the boundary of awkwardness. As it would make the student
feel more comfortable and have the courage to do better in
class.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Alan Arcangel Date: March 8, 2020, 8:43 pm
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I agree with Joely's point of view when she talked about how
showing love can help improve a student's grit because it may
emphasize in the mind of a student that it is important to learn
and that it can help you become the person you choose to be in
the future.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Graichellm Date: March 8, 2020, 8:47 pm
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Sael Jorge, I would like to give you props as you’ve made an
excellent point in your argument. The only feedback that I would
give is to expand more on what occurred in the video and
article.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Graichellm Date: March 8, 2020, 8:55 pm
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Dariely S, I really like the definition you applied as its
pretty straightforward. I agree with you as I think that putting
hard work into something would help you succeed in life.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: Alan Arcangel Date: March 8, 2020, 9:02 pm
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Hi Sael, I also believe that grit can take you a long way.
However, the teacher needs a way to show students that grit and
I believe that the best way to do it is by showing students how
grit helped them become what they wanted to become and that grit
does not mean that they have to become robots.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: RuthPerez Date: March 8, 2020, 9:35 pm
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Grit, What is it? Grit is a word with a huge meaning;
Self-determination, perseverance, passion and courage. In a TED
the psychologist and former teacher Angela Lee Duckworth, talked
about grit and the meaning she gave to it. Before Lee became a
psychologist, she taught seven graders, in there she noticed
that her high graded and well performed students were not the
ones with a high IQ, so she jumped into a conclusion which
stated that, hard work equals success. Years after, Angela
started to excel as a psychologist. She started doing research
on grit, after driving in a somehow complicated research with
high schoolers and their class performances, she concluded that
hard work and determination will be more apparent on the
students who will graduate.
In another perspective, the article “What’s Missing When We
Talk About Grit?” written by Luke Reynolds, defines grit in a
different meaning. Reynolds indicates that grit is not the usual
“keep working, it will come by the time” or “by hard work you’ll
be successful”, but building a relationship of comfort with the
teacher or who ever is an expert in the theme you are working,
commitment and support. As a middle school teacher, Reynolds
found him self helping students who were not working efficiently
as he knew they could do, so he talked with them and asked them
to work a little more harder. As a result, most of them excel at
his class but there was a student who didn’t. As the time
passed, the student and Reynolds built a relationship that in a
peculiar way it help the student succeed. Finally Reynolds
determined that it was not hard work that he needed to emphasize
more but build a good relationship with his student to know them
and their stories.
Personally speaking, grit is a combination of hard work,
determination and a good relationship that consists in support
and care form others. Also, in grit having a growth mindset is a
must, meaning that, obstacles will always come but you’ll always
reach your goal when you keep going no matter what.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: RuthPerez Date: March 8, 2020, 9:42 pm
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Gianney, I really liked how you expressed your position and how
you broke everything down making it easier to understand and
having enough details for the reader to understand.
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Re: Taking a Position on Grit
By: RuthPerez Date: March 8, 2020, 9:49 pm
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Sael, I like your point and how you broke the essay and the
video down, but you could added more information on both of
them, it will help the reader’s understanding and I consider
that details are important.
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