GRIT, GRATITUDE, and GUMPTION

Instilling the character traits that promote learning and life success

“Sneak Peek Outline” of Full Presentation (and brief look at the jam-packed presentation to come!)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quietOnly through experience of trial and suffering canthe soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.---Helen Keller

Character

• Definitions, research, and impact on well being

• Our own self-awareness

• Application/techniques in the acquisition of the traits• Review lesson plans attendees can take with them to

use to support the development of grit, gratitude and gumption in their students

OBJECTIVES

• Grit• Gratitude• Gumption• Character• Executive Functioning

Skills/Non cognitive traits• Resilience• Tenacity/persevere• Mindset

• Wisdom, • Volition, • Courage• Hope, vision, passion

Vocabulary

Gratitude is

Research based evidence of the impact of gratitude on learning and life success…

Grit Scale

The relationship between grit and achievement.

1. Establish the environment2. Set the expectations3. Teach the vocabulary4. Create the frustration5. Monitor the experience6. Reflect and learn

Six Steps of Teaching for Grit

Gumption

Relationship between Grit, Gratitude, and Gumption and

Overall student learning, academic success,

and overall well-being

Mindset(preface to the book)

Students don’t know their potentialWe must believe it is there; we must then see it and reflect it back to them (Mary Brown)

Fixed mindset – they forget the “yet”

“Becoming is better than being”

Lesson Plans

• Grit• Gratitude• Gumption

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