Year 9 Mindset and Resilience booklet (PSHE)

This is a booklet for year 9 students in P.S.H.E. with a focus on looking ahead to KS4 and how the Growth mindset can help us to move out of our comfort zone and into the learning zone, looking at the role of feedback in long term success. Looking at success stories such as Jay-Z and Michael Jordan this unit explores how failure is the necessary route to success and mistakes are to be celebrated. Students are also asked to consider what a “High challenge, low threat” learning environment looks like and how they could take more risks with their learning to increase motivation and self-belief. Key concepts such as “marginal learning gains” are revisited alongside the use of Aesop’s fable “The tortoise and the hare” as a way of understanding how competition, perfectionism and comparison with others can be detrimental to long term success and fulfilment of potential.

NB - This booklet forms part of a spiral curriculum year 7 through to year 9 to help a wide range of challenging and disadvantaged students build their resilience to perceived failure within the school system, and increase their window of tolerance towards assessments and work within the classroom. It was created following training and support given by the Psychology department and Research Team at Portsmouth University, led by researchers in the field within UK cognitive & educational Psychology and within the context of “Changing Mindsets” research funded by the Education Endowment Fund and The National College of Teaching and Learning. However, the design and implementation within these resources is all my own creation.