Being successful is an important part of the college experience. College classes require more study time outside of class. If a class is a 3 credit hour class, then you need to study for 6 hours outside of class for that content. Throughout high school, classes weren’t as restrictive of time so students didn’t have the concentration that is needed for success. This is why they don’t do as well and fear failure. Being “gritty” will improve this problem in the long run. Grit is a term referring to a set of characteristics that include persistence, hard work, and willingness to risk failure, according to Angela Duckworth (Smith, NPR.org). A great time to teach a student the effectiveness of grit would be in a freshman class so it can open doors
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In college, you are required to study at least two hours out of class per credit hour. According to Babcock and Marks’s 2010 paper “The Falling Time Cost of College, “demonstrates that in 1961, U.S. undergraduates studied 24 hours a week….In 1981, fell to 20 hours, and in 2003, it was 14 hours” (Davis, edutopia.org). This is what a full time student is supposed to do but it fell when students took a failure rather than keeping up their studies. Of course this shuts students down because who would want to study for a whole day straight? There is also a problem with students who never seem to fail. According to Paul Tough in his article “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?”, “People who have an easy time of things, get 800’s on their SAT’s….I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure” (Tough, Nytimes.com). This is meaning that people who don’t see failure and do excellently won’t have the capacity to handle the real life failures because they have things come easily to them. This is worse than a student who refuses to show their failures because they are scared of being humiliated. Someone who constantly gets 4.0 might not see that many failures. When it comes to teaching grit, it will help immensely in terms of success. Teaching students in their first year of college how grit will change their ways for the
In college, you are required to study at least two hours out of class per credit hour. According to Babcock and Marks’s 2010 paper “The Falling Time Cost of College, “demonstrates that in 1961, U.S. undergraduates studied 24 hours a week….In 1981, fell to 20 hours, and in 2003, it was 14 hours” (Davis, edutopia.org). This is what a full time student is supposed to do but it fell when students took a failure rather than keeping up their studies. Of course this shuts students down because who would want to study for a whole day straight? There is also a problem with students who never seem to fail. According to Paul Tough in his article “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?”, “People who have an easy time of things, get 800’s on their SAT’s….I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure” (Tough, Nytimes.com). This is meaning that people who don’t see failure and do excellently won’t have the capacity to handle the real life failures because they have things come easily to them. This is worse than a student who refuses to show their failures because they are scared of being humiliated. Someone who constantly gets 4.0 might not see that many failures. When it comes to teaching grit, it will help immensely in terms of success. Teaching students in their first year of college how grit will change their ways for the