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Need some ACT and SAT test-taking tips?

December 24, 2017 By Brian Caskey

test taking tips

Follow as many of these test-taking tips as you can, and you will greatly improve your ability to remain calm, collected, and focused during the test. Here’s what you should do before and during the test to manage your stress level and to ensure you’ll achieve the best score possible.

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Should we stop telling kids they’re smart?

July 12, 2016 By Brian Caskey

Screenshot 2016-07-12 12.59.13Carol Dweck finds that the words adults use to describe kids’ progress affects the children’s belief in their own potential. In this TED Talk, she discusses the power of the process, and the power of allowing children to discover the meaning of effort and difficulty. She argues that we should praise the process (strategies, focus, effort, improvement) rather than intelligence or ability. She says that creating a path into the future that creates greater persistence is more valuable than allowing students to stay within their comfort zone. She calls this the growth mindset, and believes that students can improve and grow through passion and perseverance.

Carol Dweck is a professor at Stanford and the author of Mindset, a classic work on motivation. She has also taught at Harvard and Columbia.

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