The GCSE Mindset: 40 activities for transforming student
commitment, motivation and productivity, written by Steve Oakes and
Martin Griffin, offers a wealth of concrete, practical and
applicable tools designed to supercharge GCSE students' resilience,
positivity, organisation and determination. At a time when GCSE
teaching can feel like a conveyor belt of micromanaged lessons and
last-ditch interventions, Steve and Martin - acclaimed authors of
The A Level Mindset - suggest a different approach, underpinned by
their VESPA model of essential life skills: vision, effort,
systems, practice and attitude. These five non-cognitive
characteristics beat cognition hands down as predictors of academic
success, and in The GCSE Mindset Steve and Martin take this simple
model as their starting point and present a user-friendly
month-by-month programme of activities, resources and strategies
that will help students break through barriers, build resilience,
better manage their workload and ultimately release their potential
- both in the classroom and beyond. The book's forty activities,
while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been
sequenced chronologically by month in order to better chart the
student's journey through the academic year and to help them
navigate the psychological terrain ahead. Each activity can be
delivered one-to-one, to a tutor group or to a whole cohort, has
been designed to take fifteen to twenty minutes to complete, and
has been written with a pupil audience in mind. However, to
complement the tasks' practical utility, the authors also explore
the underpinning research and theory - including the pioneering
work of Angela Duckworth, Dr Steve Bull and Carol Dweck - in more
detail in the introduction to each section. Informed by the
authors' collective thirty-plus years of teaching and coaching,
this essential handbook for GCSE success also suggests key coaching
questions and interventions for use with pupils and includes expert
guidance on how schools can implement and audit the core components
and outcomes of the VESPA approach in their own settings.
Additionally - and indeed pertinently in the present educational
environment where empirical data is valued so highly - the book
features a chapter dedicated to the measurement of mindset, written
by guest contributors Dr Neil Dagnall and Dr Andrew Denovan from
Manchester Metropolitan University. They present the
twenty-eight-item VESPA questionnaire, which they helped Steve and
Martin to design, and take the reader through the research process
behind its origins before going on to describe how it can be used
to identify areas for development and to measure the impact of
interventions. Suitable for teachers, tutors and parents who want
to boost 14-16-year-olds' academic outcomes and equip them with
powerful tools and techniques in preparation for further education
and employment.
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