3.1 What is Resilience?

Robin Frkovic, MEd., BSc

3.1 What is Resilience?

Instructor Preparation and Summary

Resilience is a popular word used in the world today since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This ability to “bounce back” from adversity is something that many unique learners have demonstrated consistently in their lives while coping with their everyday challenges. In this unit, there is a short and simple self-assessment of resilience (Brief Resilience Scale) and an engaging video series with follow up questions and students can receive a “digital badge” when they complete the questions correctly. There is also a Resilience Tool Presentation assignment that involves students presenting their own resilience tools to the class. A diagram of a “Resilience Plant” is useful for the visual learners and engages more creative students to list their support systems, positive thoughts and health and wellness habits that contribute to their resilience.

The principles of Universal Design for Learning are incorporated into the variety of activities in this unit.

This unit will help some students to:

Define resilience.
Identify the importance of resilience in our lives
Assess informally their own level of resilience
List the different categories of resilience tools and provide examples of each.
Present a resilience tool that they use in their life to the class.
Identify common traits in resilient people.

Classroom Activities

Brief Resilience Scale (PDF Link) from The Ohio Sate University
Resilient Plant Labelling Activity is available in MS Word and Adobe PDF formats
- Unit 3.1: Resilient Plant Labelling (MS Word)
- Unit 3.1: Resilient Plant Labelling (PDF)
  
  Resilient Plant Labeling Diagram by Robin Frkovic / Fanshawe College. CC BY-NC 4.0. [Click to enlarge].
Resilience: Plans for Success and Bounces Back from Failure resource from New World of Work *
- Instructions: On the webpage above, the participant will explore one of the “Top 10” 21st Century Skills. The participant can watch all 5 videos and answer the multiple-choice questions. If the participant gets a passing score, they’ll be able to earn a Learner Digital Badge for the skill. An email will be sent to the participant from Badgr, and they can claim their badge to share and post online for all the world (and potential employers) to see!

*Source: All of New World of Work’s 21st Century Skills curriculum, video, and assessment content are (CC BY-NC-SA).

Applied Learning Assessments

Interactive Plant Labeling Activity

As an alternative to the paper-based labeling activity option above, you can also use this interactive H5P, which will allow users to export a copy of their responses to a text-based document (such as MS Word).

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