Transcript GRIT, GRATITUDE, and GUMPTION

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GRIT, GRATITUDE, and
GUMPTION
Instilling the character traits that
promote learning and life success
Character
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet
Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired, and success achieved.
---Helen Keller
OBJECTIVES
• Definitions, research, and impact on well being
• Our own self-awareness
• Application/techniques in the acquisition of the
traits
• Review lesson plans attendees can take with
them to use to support the development of grit,
gratitude and gumption in their students
Vocabulary
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Grit
Gratitude
Gumption
Character
Executive Functioning
Skills/Non cognitive traits
• Resilience
• Tenacity/persevere
• Mindset
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Wisdom,
Volition,
Courage
Hope, vision, passion
Gratitude is
Research based evidence of the impact
of gratitude on learning and life
success…
Grit Scale
The relationship between grit and
achievement.
Six Steps of Teaching for Grit
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Establish the environment
Set the expectations
Teach the vocabulary
Create the frustration
Monitor the experience
Reflect and learn
Gumption
Relationship between Grit, Gratitude,
and Gumption and
Overall student learning,
academic success,
and overall well-being
Mindset(preface to the book)
Students don’t know their potential
We must believe it is there; we must then see it
and reflect it back to them (Mary Brown)
“Becoming is better than being”
Fixed mindset – they forget the “yet”
Lesson Plans
• Grit
• Gratitude
• Gumption
Questions and Comments