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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting, for a job that was even more demanding: teaching、I went to teach seventh grades math in the New York City public schools、And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests, i gave out homework assignments、When the work came back, I calculated grades、What struck me was that I、Q、was not the only difference between my best and my worst students, some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric I、Q、Scores, some of my smartest kids weren’t doing so well、And that got me thinking, the kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they’re hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram, but these concepts are not impossible、And I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn material if they worked hard and long enough。

在我27岁的时候,我辞去了一份非常有挑战性的职业-企业管理咨询,转而投入了一份更加具有挑战性的职业:教育。我来到纽约的一些公立学校教七年级学生数学,与别的老师一样,我会给同学们做小测试与考试,我会给她们布置家庭作业。当这些试卷与作业收上来之后,我计算了她们的成绩,让我震惊的就是,I、Q的高低并不就是我最好的与最差的学生之间唯一的差别,一些在课业上表现很好的学生并不具有非常高的IQ分数, 一些聪明的孩子反而在课业上表现的不那么尽如人意,这引起了我的思考。当然,学生们在七年级需要学习的东西,就是有难度的,像比率,小数,平行四边形的面积计算,但就是这些概念就是完全可以掌握的,我坚信我的每一位学生都可以学会教材内容,只要她们肯花时间与精力的话。

After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective、In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is I、Q、, but what if doing well in school and in life, depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily? So I left classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist、I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study my question was who is successful here and why、My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy, we try to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out、We went to the National Spelling Bee, and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition、We studied rookie teachers in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year、And of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students、We partnered with private companies, asking which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs, and who’s going to earn the most money?

经过几年教学之后,我得出一个结论,我们在教育方面需要做的就是从学习动力的角度与心理学的角度对学生与学习行为,进行一次更为深刻的理解。在教育系统中,我们都知道评价优秀学生的标准就就是IQ,但如果在学校与生活中的优秀表现远不仅仅依赖于您轻松高效的学习能力呢？所以我离开了讲台,回到学校继续心理学硕士学位。我开始研究,孩子与大人在各种具有挑战性的情况下以及在各项研究中,我的问题就是谁才就是成功者,为什么她们会成功？我与我的研究