Comments on: How Children Succeed https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-succeed/ Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jen https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-succeed/#comment-187 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:15:37 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=1451#comment-187 In reply to Carrie.

When I was at the Tinkering Lab Board Meeting last Thursday, we were discussing this very thing. Allowing children to explore, fail, and then readjust, and explore some more is good. How do we encourage children to keep going time after time. I agree that we need to move away from \”finishing\” in the early years (sorry Montessori folks) and allow children to continually work on the same problem over and over, through failure after failure.
I really appreciate that this book also explains ways in which we can teach or work on these skills rather than attributing them to temperament (you either \”have\” these or \”don\’t\”).
Lot\’s more to discuss. I think it should be \”One book, One Chicago\”.

]]> By: Carrie https://earlymathcounts.org/how-children-succeed/#comment-186 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:52:58 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=1451#comment-186 Excellent book and perhaps preschool is a good place to develop a certain level of persistence. For that, children need time to work on things that challenge them, and they need support to learn how to cope with frustration. I think this is so important and yet we often don\’t build in enough time in educational settings for learners to persist in things that are difficult for them. Instead, we tend to praise kids who finish first and that kind of thing. I look forward to more discussion about this book. It really does hit close to home.

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