Unit 3: Teaching Resiliency Skills

Learning Objectives

As an instructor, in this unit you will learn to:

  • Introduce resiliency and the importance of it in our lives.
  • Explain common traits in resilient people.
  • Apply resilience tools to life scenarios.
  • Teach effective student presentation skills.
  • Explain self beliefs and growth and fixed mindset.
  • Demonstrate how to adopt a growth mindset.
  • Evaluate student’s current mindset.
  • Discuss that failure is critical for growth and learning.
  • Teach strategies to use to overcome feeling overwhelmed and wanting to quit.
  • Introduce the concept of GRIT and apply it to a real life goal.
  • Explain good stress and bad stress and how to respond to stress in a healthy way.
  • Teach students to distinguish between what is within their control and not within their control in their lives.
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