Be Gritty in Teaching

It is self-evident that Grit plays an important role in success. According to Angela Duckworth, grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. It also means having stamina in making a significant thing to the top. And fortunately, grit has nothing to do with talent, which has been confirmed by the data the author collected.

As a teacher, we have to make communication with dozens of students and deal with their affairs every day. We are usually so exhausted after a whole day’s work that we want to give up the next day. I feel the importance of grit in teaching with my own experience. Therefore, it is urgent for us to know how to be gritty so that we can handle them with great passion day after day. Luckily, I gained enlightment from the book GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

Firstly, try our best to figure out what we are truely interested in and arouse our inner passion about achieving it. Only in this way can we keep our curiosity until we make it. Secondly, believe that we can make things better by practicing it again and again day after day or year after year. That is because a gritty people can work out solutions for any problems they encounter. Then, it’s time to sublime our goals. It would be the best to link what we are doing with others’ happiness and benefit. The last but not the least, be optimistic and confident, which is of great importance for us to overcome difficulties and setbacks.

Then comes another question: being a gritty teacher, what can we do better in teaching? Becuase of being gritty, we will firmly believe that we can be better and will keep learning, thinking and improving. We can find more solutions instead of more complains. What’s more, we will set ourselves an example to students, and the gritty personality will have a great influence on their life and future.

Just as Angela said, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. I am firmly convinced that both our kids and ourselves will be a better one.