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Be Smart is the first ‘Learning to Learn’ resource in our suite of ‘performance boosters’. These are resources designed to help your learners explore their considerable capacity to learn and to help your school implement ‘Learning to Learn’ strategies in practical, hands-on ways.
Be Smart aims to show each pupil that they have huge potential and ability to learn. When a child labels themselves ‘stupid’, ‘slow’ or ‘unable to learn new things’ it is difficult for the best of teachers to educate them. It is the ‘closed mindset’ or ‘limiting belief’ that becomes the barrier to successful learning. Inspired by the work on mindsets by Professor Dweck at Stanford University the Be Smart programme directly challenges the closed mindset by showing pupils they:
Who does this resource benefit?
Be Smart could be used by all year seven students, who could use it again in year nine as a refresher resource. It can also be sign posted for any KS4 learner who has a closed mindset who is displaying signs of a self-limiting belief about their ability to learn.
All current vision2learn for schools learners will find a ‘Learning to Learn’ tab in the navigation bar of their My Study area – Be Smart can be found here.
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