Learning Curve Senior Planner by learning_curve

SENIOR secondary planner

2019

meaning and purpose where on the continuum of mindsets are you? – developing my Meaning and Purpose through doing positive things to move myself towards more growth orientated mindsets.

FIXED AND PERMANENT............................................ > Where is your mindset now? >...............................................GROWTH ORIENTATED Nothing can change, so why try. Change will happen through doing. Set performance goals Set process goals There are very few people who are at the extremes of the above continuum of mindsets for everything they do. For different activities their mindsets will be in different places on the continuum. For example, you may dislike waiting for the bus, but enjoy talking with your friends when on the bus. The key is to be on the lookout for opportunities to nudge yourself along the continuum towards growth orientated mindsets. Where do you think the mindset of the person you admire would be? Your brain is hard wired to perform at its best when you are positive, not negative. Setting goals to achieve, provide you with a reason to look to the future with optimism and hope, which is an important skill of resilience. Goals connect you with yourself and focus you on learning and trying new things to grow your brain’s abilities. They are your anchors to be self-aware of your progress.

FIXED MINDSETS – about proving

growth MINDSETS – about improving

y ou believe “doing” new things won’t change your abilities to challenge your best possible self.

y ou believe challenging your best possible self comes from “doing” new more difficult things.

you are choosing not to choose: brittle thinking.

you are choosing to choose: resilient thinking.

your focus is on your performance; proving your ability.

your focus on the process you follow; improving your ability

you think, hard work + effort = lack of ability.

you think, hard work + effort = positive achievement.

What are two things I can start doing to move myself towards growth mindsets?

What are two things I can start doing to adopt growth mindsets?

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performance goals

process goals

or example, my goal is to do things that are not difficult and F that I can do.

or example, my goal is to learn more logical ways to think so F that I can tackle more difficult tasks.

Avoid setting performance goals at the beginning of each term.

Set three process learning goals at the beginning of each term.

setting process goals Set one process goal for each of the following areas of your life: EXERCISE and HEALTHY EATING ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... LEARNING and THINKING ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... WELLBEING and HAPPINESS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... FAMILY and FRIENDS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Acknowledgement: Carol Dweck

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.” Roy T. Bennett 18

meaning and purpose why personal learning goals? – building my Meaning and Purpose through setting goals and targets. The very best way to connect fully with yourself is by writing down the goals you are setting out to achieve, your starting targets, the strengths you will use and what you need to learn to achieve them. Ensure that you set step-by-step process goals, not performance goals. For all of your goals, circle under where you think you are starting the goal from and at the end of term circle where you think reached towards achieving them (see page 21). It is all about process, which is improving your best, not proving your best. Following are process personal learning goals which may provide you with ideas when setting your own goals. Goal...............................I will show a growth mindset by writing down two things I will do for every Weekly Wellbeing Builder and then do them. Starting Target..............By the end of week four, I will be doing this as a habit. Goal............................... I will use my planner/journal every day to write down all learning that I need to finish and to extend myself, plan what I do and set timelines for achieving what I set out to do. Starting Target..............By the end of week one, I will have surfed the website www.learningcurve.com.au and read pages 3, 4 & 5. Goal...............................I will journal my hits, misses and not attempted to raise my self-awareness of me challenging my best possible self. Starting Target..............By the end of week four, I will be doing this as a habit. Goal............................... I will use the ‘Musts and Options’ in Thinking Tools on the website to build a timetable that I can follow, which includes school, sport, exercise and time with friends. Starting Target..............By the end of week two, I will have my first timetable built and be sticking to it. Goal...............................I will set up a home work station to use every day for my learning. Starting Target..............By the end of week one, I will have a work station set up for learning and be using it. Goal...............................I will concentrate on being in charge of my emotions and the body language I show by using my strengths. Starting Target..............By the end of week two, I will be in charge of the intensity of my emotions and be showing positive body language. Goal...............................I will use Thinking Tools to break bigger tasks down into smaller pieces which I understand. Starting Target..............By the end of week two, I will have read and be using the thinking tools on the website. Goal...............................I will ask questions in class whenever I have trouble understanding the lesson. Starting Target..............By the end of week one, I will have asked at least one question every day. Goal...............................I will practise using my signature and top supporting strengths in everything I do. Starting Target..............By the end of week four, I will be doing this as a habit. Goal...............................I will focus my energies on doing good to feel good positive emotions to build my wellbeing. Starting Target..............By the end of week three, I will be regularly doing acts of kindness for others. Goal...............................I will give myself the best opportunity of understanding by listening actively and participating in every class. Starting Target..............From day one, I will switch on when I enter the class to be in ‘the zone’ for learning. Goal...............................I will tackle both the weekly Strength Boosters and Wellbeing Fitness Challenges to build my wellbeing. Starting Target..............By the end of week two, I will be feeling positive emotions from doing these tasks. Goal............................... When I get out of bed each morning I will choose to be happy, write down the three things I’m looking forward to most and make a positive difference to others. Starting Target.............. Every day for the first two weeks, I will get up happy and say hello with a smile to everyone I meet because other people matter. Goal............................... Each day I will make an effort to make someone else’s day, either by a kind word, a helping hand or listening to them with my eyes, my ears and my heart. Starting Target..............Every day for the first two weeks, I will write down acts of kindness I do or receive in my weekly planner/journal. Goal............................... I will look for what’s right and bright in what I look at and write down three good things that happened every day that I’m grateful for. Starting Target..............For the first three weeks, I will do these things every day to make them a habit. Acknowledgement: Anders Ericsson

“To get what you want, you must first know what you need.” Russell Murphy 19

POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT

PRIORITIES / DUE DATES / GRATITUDES

Monday 11

HOME BRAIN PATTERNS Wellbeing Bank: to strengthen my Positive Engagement through having a home study area to provide patterns for my brain. By creating and using a particular area to study at home, you are building strong positive patterns of behavior for your brain and making your deliberate practice more effective. Your effort is multiplied and your engagement and attention are broadened. Describe where you currently study at home.

Tuesday 12

............................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................ Beneficial features include: low lighting; brightness stresses your eyes comfortable seating, warm and well ventilated minimal noise, distractions and interruptions neat, tidy and well-resourced with colourful posters on the walls showing your goals, key points, quotations and formulae for your subjects. Colour stimulates your brain. When using your study area keep yourself warm with socks and loosely fitting clothes and move your body to maintain blood flow to your brain. Drink warm milk or soup and sip water while studying, as it assists brain functioning and have snacks ready to graze on. If you like music while studying make it soft, because heavy beat music distracts your brain from study. Avoid studying in bed, your brain relates bed to sleep. > Website: Wellbeing Builder Reflection.

Wednesday 13

Thursday 14

ACTIONS

What are two things I will start doing to create and use a home study area?

Friday 15

MINDFULNESS ACTIVITY

Dream Holiday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you could go anywhere for the holiday of your dreams, where would it be, why would it be so special, what things would you do and how would you feel?

RESILIENCE BUILDER

The two main issues for students your age are study problems and coping with stress. Setting process self-expectations focus you on doing little things often to keep you moving in the right direction. For each of your three goals set two process selfexpectations you will keep doing; reset them every two weeks.

SUNDAY 17 WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK AND WHY? 1. 2. 3. 36

WELLBEING TIP Set aside non-negotiable time for yourself to relax every day.

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Saturday 16

THINGS TO DO

MARCH 2019

WEEK:

Character Strength

perseverance

Communication / Comments:

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Teacher:

Parent / Guardian: The right thing to do is nearly always the hard thing to do.â&#x20AC;? MW

WELLBEING FITNESS CHALLENGE FEEL GOOD MENU (see pages 10-11)

HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS WEEK? 37

STRENGTHS AND EMOTIONS

PRIORITIES / DUE DATES / GRATITUDES

Monday 19

STRENGTHS AT WORK Wellbeing Bank: to build my Strengths and Emotions through mindfully using my top strengths often. Many people get action confused with activity and think that becoming comes before doing. Completing the VIA Character Strengths Survey to identify your top strengths is a great activity, but how do you action them in your every thought, word and behaviour? Describe how you currently put your top strengths to work.

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............................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................ For each of your strengths, knowing the most intelligent way to think by selecting • CREATIVITY a Habit of Mind, will make it easier for you • CURIOSITY • JUDGEMENT to it use effectively. Go to the Strengths • LOVE OF LEARNING • PERSPECTIVE • BRAVERY • PERSEVERANCE Wheel and then Habits of Mind pages, • HONESTY • ZEST • LOVE to match your strengths with a habit. • KINDNESS • SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE • TEAMWORK • FAIRNESS Strengths work together as families. • LEADERSHIP • FORGIVENESSS For each of your top strengths, • HUMILITY • PRUDENCE • SELFREGULATION • APPRECIATION OF BEAUTY choose two other strengths from AND EXCELLENCE • GRATITUDE the table of 24 strengths, which • HOPE • HUMOUR • SPIRITUALITY you believe would complement it. To really put your strengths to work, every week for each of your top strengths, think of an intelligent behavior you can do. When you combine the actions of Habits of Mind, families of strengths and weekly behaviours, you are doing and putting your strengths to work.

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Thursday 22

Acknowledgement: Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson

> Website: Wellbeing Builder Reflection.

ACTIONS

What are two things I will start doing to put my strengths to work?

Friday 23

KINDNESS WEEK

This week have fun and make a special difference to other peoples’ lives by creating activities to use the strength KINDNESS to grow relationships with your family, friends and school community.

SUNDAY 25 WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK AND WHY? 1. 2. 3. 86

WELLBEING TIP Have a bowl of fruit on your desk at home.

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THINGS TO DO

AUGUST 2019

WEEK:

KINDNESS WEEK

Character Strength

kindness

Communication / Comments:

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Teacher:

Parent / Guardian: “Do, do, do with your strengths to become your best possible self.” MW

STRENGTHS' BOOSTER VALUED STRENGTHS (see pages 8-9)

HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS WEEK? 87

positive education POSITIVE MEMORY HABITS ARE? – building my Skills and Achievement through understanding how to build my memory. As you learned from Brain Growth Abilities building your memory relies on creating strong connections between the neurons in your brain. You achieve this by regularly revisiting what you learn over and over using different thinking tools when revising. Over time this turns your brain pathways into super-fast highways. At the end of a school day there is no room left in your short term memory to fit anything else in move it to your long term memory, use the Maximising Note Taking Process every night then in your sleep, it will move to your long term memory.

Memory Facts if learned material is not reviewed within 24 hours, 60% to 80% of it is lost, your brain forgets it after a month with no reviews, only 3% to 4% is remembered the brain pathways die why learn it in the first place?

LEARNED MATERIAL REMEMBERED OVER TIME WHEN NOT REGULARLY REVIEWED/REVISED

i f 50 minutes of learning is reviewed every week, it takes 5 minutes to reactivate it in the brain. it is very much like how you remember the words to your favourite songs. if 50 minutes of learning is not reviewed regularly, then it takes 30 to 40 minutes to relearn it.

LEARNED MATERIAL REMEMBERED OVER TIME WHEN REGULARLY REVIEWED/REVISED

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100% REMEMBERED

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30% 3% FIRST DAY

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Positive memory habits are: drink water often to help your brain’s functioning rest your brain for 10 minutes after every 45 minutes of home learning applying and extending what you have learned to new more difficult situations builds your understanding and memory; better than same old class work

Describe what I currently do to build my memory:

ONE ONE FIRST SECOND ONE DAY WEEK FORTNIGHT MONTH DAY

ake more time for yourself by creating m the habit of spending 5 minutes revising each of your subjects every night use Thinking Tools to add structure and colour to your thinking the next night, spend 3 or 4 minutes revisiting the learned material from the day before as well as 5 minutes on the new material learned that day

Describe a time I revised what I have learnt well using Thinking Tools:

Visit the Thinking Tools on the website. Which ones will I use to revisit what I learn? (Tip: Paragraph Building: T.E.E.L. is one good one)

TIME SINCE LEARNED

n the weekend, spend 3 minutes on o each day’s learned material over the week after a fortnight spend 3 minutes revisiting the learned material; by this stage it will be stored well in your long term memory the character strengths self-regulation, perseverance, love of learning and zest will help you to do this. What are two things I will start doing to build my long term memory?

How could I use my signature and top supporting strengths to ensure that I follow through to build positive memory habits?

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B. B. King 142

ONE TERM

positive education character strengths builders are? – building my Strengths and Emotions through building my character strengths. While using your signature and top supporting strengths builds your state of wellbeing, it will also benefit you to develop the other strengths in yourself. For each week’s strength self-assess on how well you use it and then set some process self-expectations to use it at home, at school and in your community. There are also weekly interactive character strengths builders in the Secondary program on the website. What does this week’s strength mean to me?........................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. How does the dictionary describe it?..................................................................................................................................................................... Describe a time in my life that I believe I used this Character Strength well............................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Find a saying or proverb about this Character Strength......................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Describe a time/s I used this Character Strength well

As a...

What are two things I will start doing to build this Character Strength?

student at school

family member at home

member of the community

Acknowledgement: VIA Institute, www.viacharacter.org

“History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.” Donald Creighton 143