Teacher Ok. So, what does bad perseverance look like? [Teacher writes BAD at the top of the left column.] Student Giving up right away. Teacher Right away? Student Ok. Just giving up. Teacher When? Student As soon as we get stuck or it gets hard. [Teacher writes this on the board.] … What is interesting about this process is that no matter how lacking a class may be in demonstrating an observable competency, they can always generate a list of indicators of what it would look like to have that competency. In the hundreds of times this has been tried, this has always been true—even if students
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