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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill
GRIT
GRIT
TASK: Take the GRIT self Assessment
TAKE AWAY MESSAGE
Don't give up - even when its hard.
Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals - sticking with your dreams for the future - your goals.
Gritty people stick with it, even when its hard. They use resources, find tools, improvise and overcome challenges.
Gritty people embrace the suck factor, the messiness, and failure - and use it to inform their next attempt.
MINDSET
MINDSET
Task: Watch this video on the difference between and growth and fixed mindset. Why is a growth mindset better?
Mindsets are an important means through which we process and reprocess the events and approach challenges in our lives. That matters, because our mindset ultimately shapes our thoughts, and our experiences.
How to develop a growth mindset
How to develop a growth mindset
Recognize your own fixed mindset beliefs.
Recognize that you have a choice - how you handles any challenge is a choice.
Identify the meaning or utility of the current challenge. How can you grow from it?
Use growth mindset self-talk. Use words like "yet", and reframe the fixed mindset into a growth statement pep talk.
Take responsibility, put in the effort, use available resources.
Get connected with others who have overcome similar challenges. Learn form them.
Learn from setbacks.
BOOST MOTIVATION
BOOST MOTIVATION
FIND YOUR WHY.
Do you find the remote school to be a challenge?
Are you approaching this challenge with a fixed or a growth mindset?
Are you putting in the effort required to meet your desired level of success?
What your bigger goal? Why do you want to do well in school? What's the utility of school? How does it move you closer to your life goals?
A student struggling with a lack of motivation to complete remote schoolwork may suddenly find the desire to complete the work by changing their thoughts about the work, embracing a growth mindset, and being a little gritty.
Motivation is amplified when you realize that remote school work is part of the challenge and path toward reaching a larger life goal such as getting into a specific college and/or landing a dream job. Completing the homework takes you one step closer to achieving that goal. Voila! School work is no longer the enemy - its a stepping stone on the path toward the future you want. That's called "finding your why" to build intrinsic motivation for a task that you might not want to do because it's hard, not fun or your have limited time. Finding "your why" is a way to build resiliency.
Take a look at the graphic to the right.
And watch the video on building motivation bridges.
Perhaps some of these ideas will help your motivation for completing remote schoolwork on time.
Motivation Bridges
Motivation Bridges
Make it urgent - deadlines, timers
Make it novel or new - new location, tools, people
Make it personally interesting - link it to something you already do thats fun and rewarding.
Link it to the big goal or life dream. find the meaning in the current task.
LET'S EXPLORE "YOUR WHY"
LET'S EXPLORE "YOUR WHY"
Pause and look at the big picture.
What is your life goal - your vision for your ideal future?
How does the class you are struggling with - and it's work - help you reach that goal? That's you WHY statement.
Write it down, post it in your work space.... make a VISION BOARD in your room to remind you of your goal.. your Why.
Reward yourself EVERY time you do school work. Don't miss this step. The reward increases the likelihood that you will try again next time.
CREATE A VISION BOARD.
CREATE A VISION BOARD.
The purpose of a vision board is to bring your dreams to life. A vision board is a tool used to help clarify, concentrate and maintain focus on what truly matters to you... a goal that that moves you closer to a vision of your future self.
VISION BOARDS CREATE A MOTIVATION BRIDGE and support a tenacious
GROWTH MINSET.
Creating a vision board will remind you of goal and motivate you to keep working towards it.
A vision board can be a digital desktop screen saver, background on your phone, and poster, a bulletin board or sketch note on a blackboard.
It will include:
your vision of your future self.
. The core values and beliefs that link to the vision.
Intermediate Goal(s) or stepping stones that lead you toward that future vision of yourself. Use the work SMART-ER not harder goal setting instructional module and workbook. Be sure to include the SMART goal and habit loop(s). There are many ways to depict this information on your vision board using words, images, and symbolism.
The product can contain pictures/images, words, and quotes, that offer a visual incentive and enthusiasm to do the work.
The vision board must be placed somewhere where you can see it every day - if it's out of sight it is out of mind and so is your goal.
Vision Board Rubric
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Pinterest Vision board Ideas
Vision Board Templates
Canva App for online creation. Great resources for poster, social media, infographic and vision board templates.
Prezi Presentation. Log in as a student to access the free templates.
"Excellence is what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
"Excellence is what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
- William Durant
REFERENCES
Duckworth, Angela. (2016). Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108
Normal Attention Span Expectations by Age by Brain Balance Achievement Centers.
Dweck, C. S. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Random House.
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