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Self-Control and Peer Groups

Kids who grow up surrounded by rituals of discipline - they watch people counter their impulses all the time - have a very different sense of their own potential. They don't have to eat the cookie because they've watched their parents and peers eat the carrot. This is an implicit kind of knowledge - it's not something you can measure on a multiple-choice test - and yet it has profound implications for our success in the real world.



a kde mame glupe testy na taketo dolezite veci? alebo na grit? alebo na tenacity?
testy su samozrejme umely bullshit, ktory v prirode nikde neexistuje..
namiesto neho sa ludia ucia pomocou hier, tj bezpecnych simulacii reality..
ale nielen vedomosti treba rozvijat, ale aj dolezite charakterove vlastnosti..




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psycho
 psycho      27.01.2010 - 23:36:08 , level: 1, UP   NEW
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Angela Lee Duckworth, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, first grew interested in whether self-control skills can be taught, after working as a high-school math teacher. "For the most part, it was an incredibly frustrating experience," she says. "I gradually became convinced that trying to teach a teen-ager algebra when they don't have self-control is a pretty futile exercise." And so, at the age of thirty-two, Duckworth decided to become a psychologist. One of her main research projects looked at the relationship between self-control and grade-point average. She found that the ability to delay gratification--eighth graders were given a choice between a dollar right away or two dollars the following week--was a far better predictor of academic performance than I.Q. She said that her study shows that "intelligence is really important, but it's still not as important as self-control."

For the past few months, the researchers have been conducting pilot studies in the classroom as they try to figure out the most effective way to introduce complex psychological concepts to young children. Because the study will focus on students between the ages of four and eight, the classroom lessons will rely heavily on peer modelling, such as showing kindergartners a video of a child successfully distracting herself during the marshmallow task.

The point is that self-improvement isn't impossible, and that changing the habits of one kid just might help change a classroom. Nobody is an island.

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ziman
 ziman      27.01.2010 - 23:33:50 , level: 1, UP   NEW
Pozeram, ze citame rovnaky blog ;)