Teaching Children Resilience and Grit
The article, “How Kids Learn Resilience” by Paul Tough, talks about how children are not being taught resilience and grit in their early years. It begins with talking about how stress is a major force that shapes the development of people in their early childhood. In addition, children who live in poverty, experience more toxic stress than other middle-class children. Then, once children are in the classroom, neurocognitive difficulties can turn into academic complications; which then can be perceived as attitude or motivational problems. The article then goes into how abounding numbers of school systems evaluate their teachers on standardized-test scores, instead of being evaluated on the successes of …show more content…
Countless children go through their life not having any grit, which causes them to not be able to deal with failing or not doing well in school. “Qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of “teaching”; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental forces, both in the classroom and in the home, sometimes in subtle and intricate ways.” (Tough 2) After looking at many studies that are explained throughout the article, Tough concluded that, “The process [of learning grit and resilience] begins in early childhood, when the most important force shaping the development of these skills turns out to be a surprising one: stress.” (Tough 2) Having a great deal of stress as a child affects their ability to be able to learn properly. Including the development of the skills of grit and resilience, which helps people with learning in general and when it comes to it, failing. The article states that it is more difficult for low-income kids to develop the skills of grit and resilience as a result of being more heavily affected by toxic stress than middle-class children. “Toxic stress can make it difficult for children to moderate their responses to disappointments and provocations.” (Tough 2) While Tough believes that toxic stress makes learning more difficult, he also believes that, “If …show more content…
For example, the title mostly relates to the article, nevertheless it doesn’t talk about how stress affects grit and resilience in children, which is a large topic throughout the entire article. It comes across as the article only talking about teaching kids resilience, yet the majority of the article talks about the difficulties of teaching low-income children and stress in early adolescence affecting their learning abilities. Along with that, it also speaks about the character of these children, instead of stating ways of teaching resilience and grit. Overall, the author remains clear throughout the article, however some of the subjects appear to be somewhat off
The article, “How Kids Learn Resilience” by Paul Tough, talks about how children are not being taught resilience and grit in their early years. It begins with talking about how stress is a major force that shapes the development of people in their early childhood. In addition, children who live in poverty, experience more toxic stress than other middle-class children. Then, once children are in the classroom, neurocognitive difficulties can turn into academic complications; which then can be perceived as attitude or motivational problems. The article then goes into how abounding numbers of school systems evaluate their teachers on standardized-test scores, instead of being evaluated on the successes of …show more content…
Countless children go through their life not having any grit, which causes them to not be able to deal with failing or not doing well in school. “Qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of “teaching”; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental forces, both in the classroom and in the home, sometimes in subtle and intricate ways.” (Tough 2) After looking at many studies that are explained throughout the article, Tough concluded that, “The process [of learning grit and resilience] begins in early childhood, when the most important force shaping the development of these skills turns out to be a surprising one: stress.” (Tough 2) Having a great deal of stress as a child affects their ability to be able to learn properly. Including the development of the skills of grit and resilience, which helps people with learning in general and when it comes to it, failing. The article states that it is more difficult for low-income kids to develop the skills of grit and resilience as a result of being more heavily affected by toxic stress than middle-class children. “Toxic stress can make it difficult for children to moderate their responses to disappointments and provocations.” (Tough 2) While Tough believes that toxic stress makes learning more difficult, he also believes that, “If …show more content…
For example, the title mostly relates to the article, nevertheless it doesn’t talk about how stress affects grit and resilience in children, which is a large topic throughout the entire article. It comes across as the article only talking about teaching kids resilience, yet the majority of the article talks about the difficulties of teaching low-income children and stress in early adolescence affecting their learning abilities. Along with that, it also speaks about the character of these children, instead of stating ways of teaching resilience and grit. Overall, the author remains clear throughout the article, however some of the subjects appear to be somewhat off