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Pre-Conference Facilitator

From Set Back to Bounce Back: Nurturing Resilience in Transitions Students Presenter: Cynthia Peters.

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Pre-Conference Facilitator

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  1. From Set Back to Bounce Back: Nurturing Resilience in Transitions StudentsPresenter: Cynthia Peters This session explores teaching styles and concrete tools that nurture resilience in transition students. Learn about approaches that are both personally and collectively empowering and that help students stay in school and meet their goals. See lessons modeled and leave with ready-to-use lesson plans.

  2. Pre-Conference Facilitator Cynthia Peters, editor of The Change Agent NELRC at World Education cpeters@worlded.org 617.482.9485 ext. 3649

  3. Find a partner and take two minutes each to share something in your wallet (or purse or backpack) that is a symbol for how you are resilient. • I will ask a few people to share what they learned from their partner. What’s in your wallet?

  4. In this workshop, you will: • Learn the 4 “protective factors” that most contribute to resilience in learners. • Discover and share techniques and materials for enhancing these factors in the classroom. • Have the opportunity to try out techniques.

  5. What is Resilience?How Can We Foster It?

  6. Four Protective Factors • Communicate the resiliency attitude: “What is right with you is more powerful than anything that is wrong.” • Adopt a strengths-based perspective: “How have you managed to do this well?” • Surround each person with all elements of the Resiliency Wheel. “I walked in worried, and I walked out a warrior.” • Give it time! “The road to success can be a long one!”

  7. 1. Communicate the resiliency attitude

  8. Resiliency Builders • Has relationships/friendships • Has a good sense of humor • Bases choices/decisions on internal evaluation • Perceptive, insightful, understanding of people and situations • Independent; can keep distance from unhealthy people and situations • Optimistic • Flexible - Can adjust, bend, and cope • Love of Learning • Self-motivation • Competence - Is "good at something“ • Self-Worth • Spirituality - Personal faith in something greater • Perseveres despite difficulty • Creative - Expresses self through art or music, etc.

  9. 2. Adopt a strengths-based perspective

  10. 3. Surround each person with the resiliency wheel.

  11. a. Provide caring and supportb. Set high expectationsc. Provide opportunities for meaningful participationd. Increase social bondinge. Set clear and consistent boundariesf. Teach life skills

  12. a. Provide caring and support

  13. b. Set high expectations

  14. Leveled Articles and Audio Versions of Articles

  15. Audio Versions of Articles Research shows that literacy and English language learners improve fluency when they have the opportunity to hear a piece read out loud while they read along.

  16. c. Provide opportunities for meaningful participation

  17. d. Increase social bonding

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  19. e. Set clear and consistent boundaries

  20. f. Teach life skills

  21. Use the chat box to share some ways you might use this in the classroom.

  22. 4. Give it time.

  23. “Writing, we witness ourselves.”-- Julia Cameron

  24. Write for The Change Agent • “Call for Articles” includes engaging and relevant writing prompts. • Students can write for a national magazine. • Their story will be read by peers. • They will experience “the editorial process,” including revisions, etc. Download Call for Articles: http://nelrc.org/changeagent/write.htm

  25. Let’s discuss some things that have stood out for you in our discussion so far…

  26. To Sum Up… There are teaching styles and concrete tools that nurture resilience in transition students. We have learned about approaches that are both personally and collectively empowering and that help students stay in school and meet their goals.

  27. Subscribing to The Change Agent Electronic Access PDFs of all the magazines, audio, etc. $15 for 1 year, or$25 for two years Bulk Get a set of 25 $75 for 1 year, or $150 for 2 years Individual Get 1 copy $10 for 1 year, or $18 for 2 years

  28. Subscribing to The Change Agent Combineindividual print and electronic for $20 per year, or $38 for 2 years Combinebulk print and electronic for $85 per year, or $170 for 2 years Subscribe online at: www.nelrc.org/changeagent/subscribe.htm or write to me at cpeters@worlded.org

  29. Other Comments & Questions

  30. Resources • www.collegetransitions.org. • http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent • World Education offers a wide selection of online courses. Find out more at: www.professionalstudiesAE.org • Supporting Learning and Motivationhttp://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13469 • Resiliency in Action http://www.resiliency.com/

  31. Finally… Please feel free to contact Cynthia Peters cpeters@worlded.org with any questions or comments. Thank you for participating!

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