According to ACT, "75 percent of American students who do achieve a high school diploma are not ready for college coursework and often need remedial classes at both the university and community college levels.” (Tennessee's Community College) College commonly looks for SAT scores and GPAs above all else to determine if the student should be considered. Colleges should instead look for more useful traits that make students better for college and the workforce. In Patrick Sullivan's article, Essential Habits of Mind for College Readiness, Sullivan thinks that curiosity/openness, creativity, accountability, humility, and grit are "more vital to college success than, SAT scores or recommended high school course sequences."Also, I will be shedding my opinion from a college freshman point of view.
Curiosity and openness were expressed very positively by Sullivan, he "applauded the framework drafters for highlighting them." "Curiosity and openness make this powerfully transformative learning possible." I agree with Sullivan that curiosity and openness are impactful for students, to truly understand something, more than just to cram, students need to construct their knowledge in a context. …show more content…
"This is an extraordinarily important human capacity that has been routinely overlooked and undervalued in recent discussions of academic rigor, curricular alignment, and articulation." Sullivan even proposed that we replace "critical thinking" with "creative and critical thinking." Stating that all exceptional thinking is creative is someway. I completely agree with Sullivan's points on creative thinking. In the past, most thought that creativity was not needed in most occupations, but now creativity is desired in most
Curiosity and openness were expressed very positively by Sullivan, he "applauded the framework drafters for highlighting them." "Curiosity and openness make this powerfully transformative learning possible." I agree with Sullivan that curiosity and openness are impactful for students, to truly understand something, more than just to cram, students need to construct their knowledge in a context. …show more content…
"This is an extraordinarily important human capacity that has been routinely overlooked and undervalued in recent discussions of academic rigor, curricular alignment, and articulation." Sullivan even proposed that we replace "critical thinking" with "creative and critical thinking." Stating that all exceptional thinking is creative is someway. I completely agree with Sullivan's points on creative thinking. In the past, most thought that creativity was not needed in most occupations, but now creativity is desired in most