{"id":43,"date":"2016-11-12T01:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-11-12T01:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:55:01","slug":"how-grit-is-shaping-my-2016-2017-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/2016\/11\/12\/how-grit-is-shaping-my-2016-2017-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How Grit is Shaping my 2016-2017 Academic Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/files\/2016\/10\/GRit-The-Power-of-Passion-and-Perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/files\/2016\/10\/GRit-The-Power-of-Passion-and-Perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"grit-the-power-of-passion-and-perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450\" width=\"348\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/files\/2016\/10\/GRit-The-Power-of-Passion-and-Perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/files\/2016\/10\/GRit-The-Power-of-Passion-and-Perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/files\/2016\/10\/GRit-The-Power-of-Passion-and-Perseverance_achieve-your-goals_1540x860-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>This summer, I read my first non-fiction book (other than academic textbooks) and the impact it had on my life was greater than I ever could have imagined. This book was &#8220;Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance&#8221; by Angela Duckworth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The point that I like that Angela honed in on, was that talent alone can only take you so far. Following through in your areas of passion and persevering through challenges leads to purpose and success in life. In one part of her book, she describes a psychology study performed on rats. In this study, the rats that faced challenging tasks when they were young were able to complete\u00a0<strong>unrelated<\/strong> challenging tasks when they were older. However, the rats that faced only simple, easy tasks why they were young gave up and were unable to complete the unrelated challenging tasks when they were older.<\/p>\n<p>This is when it hit me &#8211;\u00a0<strong>This is why I teach high school chemistry!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know that not every single student that I teach is going to be a chemist, or discuss hydrogen bonding at the dinner table (although the thought of this brings a tear to my eye).\u00a0<strong>BUT<\/strong> if I can support the student persevering through a number of scientific challenges (be it conceptual, investigative, inquiry-based, mathematical, modeling, etc.) and they can follow through with this challenges, then I am setting these students up with being able to complete unrelated, challenging tasks in their adult life. Let&#8217;s face it, the world is a complicated place, and as I get older it somehow seems to become more complicated. But with a toolkit ready to tackle difficult tasks it all seems a little bit more manageable.<\/p>\n<p>This mindset gave me a new sense of purpose this year. My overarching goal this year is to allow students to see that <strong>they can do hard things<\/strong>. When I am struggling with time management or a difficult lesson I need to also remember that<strong> I\u00a0can do hard things<\/strong>. We are all capable of more than we think, we just need to push, follow through and persevere.<\/p>\n<p>(Note &#8211; my colleague\u00a0Lesa\u00a0has really instilled the &#8220;you can do hard things&#8221; quote into my head)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, I read my first non-fiction book (other than academic textbooks) and the impact it had on my life was greater than I ever could have imagined. This book was &#8220;Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance&#8221; by Angela Duckworth. &nbsp; The point that I like that Angela honed in on, was that talent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/2016\/11\/12\/how-grit-is-shaping-my-2016-2017-academic-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Grit is Shaping my 2016-2017 Academic Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}