Character, Grit & Resilience

Provider: Teachers' Pocketbooks
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Description A pocketful of dispositions and skills to deepen learning and help young people thrive.
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Categories Primary, Secondary, Higher, Leadership and Management, Teaching and Learning, Early Years/Foundation, Further education, 14-19, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, Management, Support Staff, Teaching staff, Administration, Personal Development, Cross-curricular Themes, Facilities, Parents and Community, Wider Context, PSHE
Learning outcomes for participants/users and, where relevant, pupils or students

Identifying simple, practical things that teachers across the 3 to 18 range can do to ensure that the environment they create and the learning experiences they design give young people the best possible opportunity to grow the broadest range of helpful character dispositions.
Evidence underpinning this approach

There is a growing body of research that shows a clear link between character and performance in school.

See Character and Resilience Manifesto, APPG on Social Mobility 2014, Early Intervention Foundation, Education Endowment Foundation.
How users/participants can evaluate success

The final chapter in the book - 'Recognise, Celebrate... Measure?' - offers advice and practical tips for educators to offer feedback and support to scaffold their students progress.
Follow-up activities and support

The author, C J Simister has spent many years gathering and developing a huge range of innovative techniques that teachers and parents can use to help young people develop the intellectual qualities and skills needed to thrive and suceed in school and beyond.

More information and contact details can be found on her website www.cjsimister.com
Details

This is a pocketbook for teachers.