All Posts Tagged With: "high-achieving students"
How to instill drive in your children
Do your children lack drive?
If they seem to be without that strong desire to succeed, veteran educator Janine Walker Caffrey said they have plenty of company.
Caffrey, author of “Drive: 9 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Achieve,” said members of Generation Me - kids born between 1981 and 1996 - tend to have an [...]
3Aug2009 | | 2 comments | Continued
The New Yorker: Why children who are patient prosper
Recent headline in The New Yorker: Don’t! Why children who are patient prosper
If that headline won’t pull you in, I don’t know what will. The article tells a tale that most of us grow to understand with time: Good things come to those who wait.
Back in the late 1960s, a Stanford University researcher conducted an [...]
22May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Want to raise smart children? Praise their effort, not their intelligence
To all the parents out there who want to raise smart kids, Stanford University Professor Carol Dweck offers this advice: If you really want smart kids, start by not telling them they’re smart.
Praise their hard work, praise their willingness to work past intellectual struggles. But do not praise their innate intelligence.
Dweck is a professor of [...]
5May2009 | | 5 comments | Continued
What it takes to make it into a University of California school
What does it take to get into a UC school? In a word - plenty.
High school seniors and their parents are learning firsthand that getting into one of the nine campuses in the University of California system takes hard work, an outstanding grade point average and equally impressive scores on the SAT or ACT. This [...]
28Apr2009 | | 5 comments | Continued
Want to raise smart kids? Praise the effort, not the intelligence
I read a fascinating story in Scientific American recently with a headline the lured me in in no time flat: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are.
The author, Carol S. Dweck, is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. The article is loaded with information on 30 years [...]
22Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
The Obamas and other high achievers can take on “too much”
I can’t help but think that President and Mrs. Obama are getting a good laugh out of people who fear they are taking on too much.
All partisan politics aside (I know this is impossible but bear with me here), we have just witnessed the reins of our country pass from a classic underachiever to a [...]
29Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Want to ace your finals? Get top tips from some smart students
With the end of the semester not far away, high school students are gearing up for finals.
When I decided to seek out tips for studying for finals, my first instinct was to talk to teachers. But I realized the true experts are students who have a track record of acing finals. It didn’t take [...]
9Jan2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
High-achieving students are inquisitive and willing to take risks
High-achieving students share many great traits, including intellectual curiosity, organizational skills, a willingness to take risks and a lot of support at home, according to three award-winning teachers.
Does your child share these attributes? Here’s what we learned from Theodosia Ballard, Lili Reeves and John Rick, San Diego Unified’s teachers of the year.
Theodosia Ballard teaches [...]
28Dec2008 | | 2 comments | Continued
