{"id":1791,"date":"2014-03-24T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:58:58","slug":"mind-shift-whats-the-sweet-spot-of-difficulty-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/03\/24\/mind-shift-whats-the-sweet-spot-of-difficulty-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Shift: What\u2019s the \u2018Sweet Spot\u2019 of Difficulty For Learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/03\/doing-homework360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1792\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/03\/doing-homework360-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"doing-homework360\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Story: Annie Murphy Paul<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Marco Nedermeijer<\/p>\n<p>In an NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/03\/can-focus-on-grit-work-in-school-cultures-that-reward-grades\/\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> earlier this week, Tovia Smith reported on the growing number of schools that are trying to instill \u201cgrit\u201d\u2014 perseverance in the face of adversity \u2014 in their students. Smith focused on one such school:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom Hoerr leads the New City School, a private elementary school in St. Louis, Mo., that has been working on grit. \u2018One of the sayings that you hear around here a great deal is, \u201cIf our kids have graduated from here with nothing but success, then we have failed them, because they haven\u2019t learned how to respond to frustration and failure,\u201d\u2018 says Hoerr.<\/p>\n<p>After years of focusing on the theory known as \u2018multiple intelligences\u2019 and trying to teach kids in their own style, Hoerr says he\u2019s now pulling kids out of their comfort zones intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The message is that life isn\u2019t always easy,\u2019 Hoerr says. His goal is to make sure \u2018that no matter how talented [students are], they hit the wall, so they can learn to pick themselves up, hit the wall again and pick themselves up again, and ultimately persevere and succeed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is a major adjustment for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/03\/whats-the-sweet-spot-of-difficulty-for-learning\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story: Annie Murphy Paul Photo: Marco Nedermeijer In an NPR story earlier this week, Tovia Smith reported on the growing number of schools that are trying to instill \u201cgrit\u201d\u2014 perseverance in the face of adversity \u2014 in their students. Smith focused on one such school: \u201cTom Hoerr leads the New City School, a private elementary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/03\/24\/mind-shift-whats-the-sweet-spot-of-difficulty-for-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind Shift: What\u2019s the \u2018Sweet Spot\u2019 of Difficulty For Learning?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_national_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}