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I believe grit is something you develop by getting knocked down and getting back up. A habit performed often enough becomes a character trait. I’m not an education expert but I have had kids in public and private schools. A great place to start may be in allowing teachers to grade more aggressively for incomplete or sloppy work, enforce ACTUAL deadlines (no makeup work for forgetting, etc.) and remove unruly kids from the classroom to a locale sufficiently boring enough to make Jr. think twice about disrupting again. I’m convinced that “grit” or rather work ethic can be taught. I’m not sure it can be measured in dashboard friendly readouts but it WILL be measured in the quality of Indiana’s future workforce.
Well said. GRIT, Perseverance, Gratitude, Humility… all the “distasteful” character traits from a media/social-media perspective – are the very ones that lead to success in most areas of life.
Chrisopher D…. What are you even talking about. “Distasteful” by what “media/social-media” perspective? Pretty sure the news and media are filled with stories of grit, perseverance, gratitude, and humility. Sounds like you are just falling for a peddled fallacy.
Grit, communication and creativity are hard to measure, and I would be afraid that trying to quantify that would be an incentive fluff actual student performance.
However, I would be interested in teaching and testing financial literacy, if only for information’s sake. Kids should be taught practical things like how credit cards function, how to evaluate the true cost to purchase a car (assuming an auto loan) and what taxes are baked into the cost of things like food, clothing, cars, etc.
Creativity can easily be measured by asking students to provide three solutions to a problem in a hypothetical project. Then pose the same problem again, but tell students there is X amount of time. See what they come up with when faced with an added obstacle. Repeat, but this time impose X amount of funding. Repeat, with X amount of personnel available to solve the problem. These are the obstacles we face in real life, and where many members of a team strike out.