TED 테드로 영어공부 하기 Grit The power of perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth

 안녕하세요, Davey 입니다. 이번 포스팅은 TED로 영어 공부하기 관련해서 TED 영상 중에 Grit: The power of passion and perseverance 에 대해서 포스팅을 하도록 하겠습니다.

 

 

 

TED로 영어 공부하기 - Grit The power of perseverance

 

https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance

Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

 

 

 

Speaker인 Angela는, Management Consulting 일하다가, 교사로 일하면서, Grit이라는 거에 대해서 의구심을 품고, 대학원가서, 심리학자가 되신 분입니다.

 

간략하게 설명 드리면, 우리가 생각하기에, IQ가 학생들을 평가하는데 가장 우선시 하는 척도 였지만, 실제적으로, 가장 중요한 요소는 Grit 이라는 성질이였다고 하네요. 저도 이 부분에 대해서 100% 동감합니다.

(저도, 영어 진짜 못했는데, 계속하니까, 지금은 원어민과 아무 어려움 없이 대화하는 수준이 되었습니다.

 아직도 많이 부족하지만, 열심히 하면, 뭐든 할수 있다라고, 생각합니다.)  

 

이 영상은 Grit이라는 것을 좀, 편하게 이해할 수 있게 설명 해줍니다. 분량은 약 7분정도여서, 부담없이 하실 수 있다고 생각합니다. (저는 50번정도 Shadowing 한거 같습니다.)

 

아래 부분은 TED 영상의 영어 원본과 제가 공부하면서, 모르는 단어 찾어 놓은 것을 정리해 놓은 것입니다. 아래 script는 TED 홈페이지 해당 speech의 Transcript 내용 참조하였습니다.

(홈페이지 가서, 보시면, 라인 따라가면서, 흐름도 알려주니까, 공부하기 편하실 겁니다.)

 

 

 

- Grit: The power of passion and perseverance English Script & Words 

 

TED 영상 사진 참조

 

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 graders 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 IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ 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 the material if they worked hard and long enough.

 

struck : strike 과거형, 세게 치다라는 의미로, 충격을 주다라고 의역하였습니다.

stratospheric : 안정적인

decimals : 십진법의

parallelogram : 평형 사변형

 

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 IQ. 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 the 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 tried 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 working 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? In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit.

 

cadets : 간부 후보생

rookie : 초심자, 처음 시작하는 사람

 

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

 

day in, day out : 날마다, 매일 매일

sprint : 전력 질주 하다, 단거리 달리기

 

 

 

A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school. So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters. It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out.

 

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?" The honest answer is, I don't know.

(Laughter)

 

work ethic : 근면

 

What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty. Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.

 

follow through on their commitments. : 그들의 업무 or 그들이 해야하는 것을 완수하다.

 

So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.

 

 

So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more. And that's where I'm going to end my remarks, because that's where we are. That's the work that stands before us. We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

 

remarks : 발언

intuitions : 직관력, 직감

 

In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. Thanks (Applause)

 

 

그럼 오늘도 화이팅 하시고, 다른 Speech로 찾아 뵙겠습니다. 감사합니다.

 

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