Teaching and assessing character: Part 3
There has been a lot of talk lately (this radio show, this book) about how teaching character skills can promote long-term academic achievement and life succes...
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Teaching and assessing character: Part 1
Reading How Children Succeed has gotten me interested in how teachers could teach, build, assess, and grade students on their character skills. The first step ...
I recommend How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough
If you’re a teacher in an underfunded urban high school, it’s sometimes difficult to keep hope alive. No matter how hard you work, failure is all a...
A successful student: Grit over intellect
I was never the smartest student. But my parents always told me to try my best. So I did, maniacally so. From school to baseball to piano, I made sure to work ...