Helping Students Learn
(Today I've been weeding through over 120 emails containing great websites to check out from my Diigo Groups. I ended up reading several blogs and articles that are mulling around in my brain today. I'm trying to articulate a huge concern I feel growing as a parent & educator.) I can see a big circle developing that is scary to think about: as we pile more and more "stuff" on our children, somehow we are losing the essentials... Importance of Character Education - specifically performance character traits not moral character traits - are a greater predictor of a student's success in life than other factors such as IQ. A couple points from the article What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? that hit home with me: " measures of self-control can be a more reliable predictor of students’ grade-point averages than their I.Q.’s" "People who accomplished great things , often combined a passion for a single mission with an unswerving ded...