Putting Perseverance into Learning

This unit explores how you might build the habit of Perseverance in your students.

Sections 1 – 4 look at;

1. Perseverance and how it develops. Progression Chart Unpick the meaning of Perseverance, how it develops over time and use the Perseverance chart to plot where your students are now.
2. Taking Perseverance into classroom culture. Classroom Activities Offers numerous suggestions to develop a Perseverance friendly culture and build students’ Perseverance skills.
3. Blending Perseverance with content. Dual Focus lesson ideas Suggests a series of questions and steps you might use to ensure the development of Perseverance claims its place in the curriculum and is designed into lesson/activities to aid understanding.
4. Team reflection and planning. Share the impact of your experiments with colleagues and plan what you need to do next.

The resource materials in the Learning Diary: Perseverance help you to distil important messages, home in on the key bits of information and design learning experiments specifically for you.

Learning Diary: Perseverance

To print a copy of the Learning Diary, firstly open it in full screen. Then look for the tiny grey bar across the bottom of the screen – the grey ‘down arrow’ (second from the right hand side of the bar) downloads a PDF of the Diary so that you can print a copy.