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A QUICK WARM UP EXERCISEThis continues the portrait task from the previous PBfL booklets. Do your responses improve each time?

• 1 MINUTE TASK: In box 3, draw a self-portrait from your imagination

• Show it to a partner. Ask for 2 suggestions on how it can be improved.

• 1 MINUTE TASK: In box 4, have another go, try to respond to feedback and improve

IMPORTANT:Being able to respond positively to constructive criticism and feedback is a great quality.However, if you are providing feedback to someone it should always be:

KIND, SPECIFIC & HELPFULFeedback should be kind, specific and helpful. This isn’t a great example.

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How often do you say or think something like this?

At what moments do you have these ‘fixed’ thoughts?

compare the six ‘fixed mindset’ thoughts with their growth mindset alternatives below.

Can you develop a more positive mindset?

“I’m not good at this…yet!”

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Christian Haettich has one arm and one leg. Over 22 days he cycled across the Dolomites, the Alps and the Pyrenees becoming one of only 10 finishers of a gruelling three-week cycling event.

Read through the article provided by your tutor. A short clip can be seen here

Can you identify particular times in Christian’s life when he had to be persistent?

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Complete the following sentences that are placed around the graph:

Something I’d love to succeed with is…

To do this I will need to persist with/when…

Something I have already succeeded in through good effort is…

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These are our baseline expectations – the things that all students should strive to do:

Think about the statements above. Which do you consider strengths? Which do you think you could improve upon?

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"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." Robert Hughes