An essential talent for students to learn is the ability to develop his or her talent.
- By working every day on their own creations, they can learn what it takes to be good at something.
Show kids what it takes to be great. To struggle and fail and try again.
- They figure out how to solve difficult problems and cope with criticism.
- Learn how to manage their own time and persevere in the face of difficulty.
- Every kid learns the ability to push themselves
Use project based curriculum to build relationship with persistence and creative achievement.
- They must persist and keep on working until the work is done.
- Grit is one of the most predictors of success
- Nobody is talented enough not to work hard and that is what grit allows you to do
- Grit is what gets you to keep on practicing
Use Vocation Approach to build grit in students
- Teach how to be single minded in pursuit of a goal
- Sacrifice for the sake of a passion
Re-source: Reveal
make (previously unknown or secret information) known
Creativity can be taught
- Kids are reservoirs of untapped talent.
- Encourage excellence (don’t just focus of the bottom ranked students)
- Insist that they live up to their potential because it is not enough to be good when you can be great.
- Understanding derives from activity.
- Kids don’t learn when they’re consuming information
- They learn when they’re producing stuff
- Get them to work hard without them realizing they’re working
What they are learning is “How to say something”
- We all have our own purpose and message.
- How do we reveal it, and how do we say it and share it through our actions, ideas, collaborations, etc.
- How do you share what you are put on this earth to do?
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craving and resource from “Imagine” – How Creativity works – by Jonah Lehrer (based on NOCA School)
