The Student Mindset

In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and execute successful learning.

Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and strategies that deliver those results.

By cutting through the noise surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling authors Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have identified the five key traits and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA).

These characteristics beat cognition hands down, and in The Student Mindset Steve and Martin provide a ready-made series of study strategies, approaches and tactics designed to nurture these qualities and transform your motivation, commitment and productivity.

The book's thirty activities, while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been organised around six key phases of learning so that you can recognise which phase you're in before choosing from the range of tools and techniques to help you get through it. The six co-existing key phases are: preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting, testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the dip. At each phase you'll experience challenges and discover new ways of working, and this book's activities have been designed to help you gain control and become a better learner by sharing workload management tactics and revision strategies associated with calm, purposeful study and - ultimately - getting good results. These tools include a range of effective prioritisation, stress reduction, procrastination-busting and mindset development approaches - all neatly packaged into this outstanding practical guide to becoming a successful and confident student.

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The Student Mindset

In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and execute successful learning.

Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and strategies that deliver those results.

By cutting through the noise surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling authors Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have identified the five key traits and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA).

These characteristics beat cognition hands down, and in The Student Mindset Steve and Martin provide a ready-made series of study strategies, approaches and tactics designed to nurture these qualities and transform your motivation, commitment and productivity.

The book's thirty activities, while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been organised around six key phases of learning so that you can recognise which phase you're in before choosing from the range of tools and techniques to help you get through it. The six co-existing key phases are: preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting, testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the dip. At each phase you'll experience challenges and discover new ways of working, and this book's activities have been designed to help you gain control and become a better learner by sharing workload management tactics and revision strategies associated with calm, purposeful study and - ultimately - getting good results. These tools include a range of effective prioritisation, stress reduction, procrastination-busting and mindset development approaches - all neatly packaged into this outstanding practical guide to becoming a successful and confident student.

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The Student Mindset

The Student Mindset

by Steve Oakes
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The Student Mindset

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Overview

In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and execute successful learning.

Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and strategies that deliver those results.

By cutting through the noise surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling authors Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have identified the five key traits and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA).

These characteristics beat cognition hands down, and in The Student Mindset Steve and Martin provide a ready-made series of study strategies, approaches and tactics designed to nurture these qualities and transform your motivation, commitment and productivity.

The book's thirty activities, while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been organised around six key phases of learning so that you can recognise which phase you're in before choosing from the range of tools and techniques to help you get through it. The six co-existing key phases are: preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting, testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the dip. At each phase you'll experience challenges and discover new ways of working, and this book's activities have been designed to help you gain control and become a better learner by sharing workload management tactics and revision strategies associated with calm, purposeful study and - ultimately - getting good results. These tools include a range of effective prioritisation, stress reduction, procrastination-busting and mindset development approaches - all neatly packaged into this outstanding practical guide to becoming a successful and confident student.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785833083
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Publication date: 10/31/2018
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steve Oakes has 20 years of experience as a teacher in the UK and the UAE. Prior to his current position, Steve was the assistant director of sixth form at The Blue Coat School in Oldham, where he worked with his co-author, Martin Griffin, for eight years. He is currently the founding head of sixth form at Hartland International School, Dubai.

Martin Griffin has 20 years' experience teaching post-16 students, and has been a head of faculty, assistant head teacher and deputy head teacher. He was the director of sixth form at The Blue Coat School and now works with schools and colleges to design and implement character development and mindset programmes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

Introduction 1

VESPA 3

What's in a Mindset? 9

How This Book Works 12

Chapter 1 Preparation 15

1 Vision Activity: The Learner's Manifesto 18

2 Attitude Activity: The Five Glitches 23

3 Attitude Activity: The ABC of Fear 27

Chapter 2 Starting Study 31

4 Vision Activity: The Motivation Diamond 35

5 Vision Activity: The Five Roads 38

6 Vision Activity: The Interview 42

7 Vision Activity: The Roadmap 46

8 Vision Activity: Weekly Rule of Three 48

9 Attitude Activity: The Rocky Road 50

Chapter 3 Collecting and Shaping 53

10 Systems Activity: Mapping New Territory 56

11 Systems Activity: Fifteen Graphic Organisers 59

12 Systems Activity: The Bottom Left 63

13 Systems Activity: Three Types of Attention 66

14 Systems Activity: Battling Information Overwhelm 70

Chapter 4 Adapting, Testing and Performing 73

15 Effort Activity: The Three 'Hows' of Independent Work 77

16 Practice Activity: The Nine-Box Grid 80

17 Practice Activity: The Leitner Box 83

18 Attitude Activity: Failing Forwards 86

Chapter 5 Flow and Feedback 89

19 Practice Activity: Finding Flow 92

20 Practice Activity: K-SPA 97

21 Attitude Activity: The Problem Solving Cycle 100

22 Attitude Activity: Managing Reactions to Feedback 106

Chapter 6 Dealing with the Dip 111

23 Vision Activity: Dalio's Process 116

24 Effort Activity: The Four Disciplines of Execution 122

25 Attitude Activity: Beating Procrastination 126

26 Attitude Activity: Force Field Analysis 131

27 Effort Activity: Twenty-Five Minute Sprints 133

28 Effort Activity: The Five P's of Giving Up a Habit 136

29 Effort Activity: The Three R's of a New Habit 141

30 Attitude Activity: The First Aid Kit: Sleep, Diet and Exercise 143

Conclusion: Ten Final Thoughts 148

References 152

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