Learning Powers (Building a Growth Mindset)
As a school we must ensure our children have a growth mind set to allow them to rise to challenges they face and avoid the fear of failure. Learning Powers can positively influence children to become more focused and motivated, creating a successful learning environment with children who are resourceful, resilient, reflective and embrace reciprocity. Building Learning Powers is invaluable for learning all across the curriculum and prepares children to be lifelong learners, ready to meet the ever changing demands of the 21st century.
The 4 Learning Powers
Our 4 Learning Powers are:
Resilience
Resourcefulness
Reflectiveness
Reciprocity
Each of our Learning Power's have a character who comes along with a story that demonstrates the skills that they use. To accompany each story, thee is also a video of the animal demonstrating these skills.
Resilience
Being a resilient learner means:
- Managing your distractions.
- Persevering and not giving up -sometimes learning a new skill can take time!
- Being absorbed and focused on learning.
- Noticing what is going on.
Character Video Link: https://youtu.be/L7tWNwhSocE
Resourcefulness
Being a resourceful learner means:
- Making links by seeing connections and bringing them together.
- Improving your learning by asking meaningful questions.
- Learning from different sources and choosing the right one to help you in your learning.
- Using your imagination to explore and play with ideas.
- Looking for evidence and reasoning what might happen.
Character Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMRDZbrdXc
Reflectiveness
Being a reflective learner means:
- Thinking ahead and planning which resources you might need.
- Looking at what you have learnt and taking it into new areas of learning.
- Knowing your strengths and weaknesses, and how you learn best.
- Monitoring how things are going and revising your plans where needed.
Character Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
Reciprocity
Being a reciprocal learner means:
- Collaborating successfully with others.
- Improve your learning by imitating other people.
- Putting yourself in other people's shoes to empathise and be a good listener.
- Knowing when and where it is best to learn by yourself or with others.
Character Video Link: https://youtu.be/g2ba63x1N9A