PO167: The Impact of Teacher Support on Grit and Achievement

  • PMD: 2,3
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. identify how grit impacts literacy achievement;
  2. explain how teacher support impacts the relation of grit with literacy achievement; and
  3. determine how consultation may be helpful to promote teacher support, with consequences for grit and literacy achievement.

Description

Grit does not occur in a vacuum, and classroom context is important to academic achievement and grit. Learn how teacher support may enhance the relation of grit on literacy achievement.

Presenter(s)

Jessica E. Felix, Howard County PS/University of Maryland
Colleen R. O´Neal, University of Maryland

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