Resilience and Academic Performance
Considering that resilience has been linked to academic success we must conclude that fostering resiliency among children will results in high levels of academic performance. With this knowledge in mind, some school districts and independent researchers created some assessments to validate resilience skills and evaluate their role in high academic performance. Assessment is defined as an ongoing process of gathering quantitative and qualitative information about student’s academic progress. Luckily, we are coming to realize that student’s contracts, small toys, stickers, students’ of the month assemblies, and other awards cannot modify students’ motivation, discipline, and their study habits. Fortunately, …show more content…
Resilience is a series of attributes, which provides students with a positive attitude, courage, and fortitude to deal, with the overwhelming barriers that they can experience throughout life. Moreover, Solberg’s research found that resiliency skills can be learned, measured, and once acquired will stay with us for the rest of our lives. Therefore, at home and in school, we should develop activities that make our children feel that they are genuinely empowered, useful, valuable members of the community, and academically competent. Therefore, how is academic performance and resiliency …show more content…
However, as indicated in the article, any person can learn these skills and improve them with practice. In a few words, while some individuals are blessed by being born with higher critical thinking skills, the rest of us should learn them to be academically successful. What are some of the motives, which compel us to develop high critical thinking skills? According to the article poverty, being in another country, racism, prejudice, and supportive or broken families, are some of the reasons that motivate students to excel academically. However, I am convinced that these individuals were born with an internal locus of control. Is this possible or a terrible
Considering that resilience has been linked to academic success we must conclude that fostering resiliency among children will results in high levels of academic performance. With this knowledge in mind, some school districts and independent researchers created some assessments to validate resilience skills and evaluate their role in high academic performance. Assessment is defined as an ongoing process of gathering quantitative and qualitative information about student’s academic progress. Luckily, we are coming to realize that student’s contracts, small toys, stickers, students’ of the month assemblies, and other awards cannot modify students’ motivation, discipline, and their study habits. Fortunately, …show more content…
Resilience is a series of attributes, which provides students with a positive attitude, courage, and fortitude to deal, with the overwhelming barriers that they can experience throughout life. Moreover, Solberg’s research found that resiliency skills can be learned, measured, and once acquired will stay with us for the rest of our lives. Therefore, at home and in school, we should develop activities that make our children feel that they are genuinely empowered, useful, valuable members of the community, and academically competent. Therefore, how is academic performance and resiliency …show more content…
However, as indicated in the article, any person can learn these skills and improve them with practice. In a few words, while some individuals are blessed by being born with higher critical thinking skills, the rest of us should learn them to be academically successful. What are some of the motives, which compel us to develop high critical thinking skills? According to the article poverty, being in another country, racism, prejudice, and supportive or broken families, are some of the reasons that motivate students to excel academically. However, I am convinced that these individuals were born with an internal locus of control. Is this possible or a terrible