Wednesday, May 22, 2013

What do children need to succeed? GRIT!

This from the TED website:

'Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success'.

To find out more about grit, watch the six minute video below.

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