BELIEFS ABOUT SUCCESS
This activity can help you to look at your beliefs about succeeding.1 Different people have different beliefs: sometimes they can help us succeed, sometimes they can hinder.
Do For each of the 16 statements, mark whether you agree or disagree with them. There is space for you to note down your other thoughts as you go through.
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Sensible planning is a key factor in success
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Pupils who do well in examinations usually
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get a lot of help from parents
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Teachers only praise you to make you work
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harder
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When you fail it is usually because you
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did not work hard enough
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A regular study pattern usually leads to
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good results
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I need grades on the last test before I
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can plan what to work on next
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When I get things wrong it’s because the
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teacher didn’t explain clearly
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If you’re told you aren’t ‘able’ there’s
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no point trying
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Doing well in exams is largely a matter
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of luck
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At my age it’s difficult to study because
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you have to go out with your friends
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I usually seem to do badly when I have
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to compete with others
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People complain the exam was unfair
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when they didn’t prepare for it
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There’s no point to school if you can’t
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get a job
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Progress in a subject depends on
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whether you like the teacher
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You can learn how to do better next
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time from your mistakes
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It’s who you know that’s important
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for success in life
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Review Discuss your responses with colleagues in small groups. Look for similarities and differences between you.
Learn Which beliefs can hinder you? What do you blame when you do not succeed? How does this affect you? Which beliefs can help you? How can you use more of them?
Apply Try and notice the impact of beliefs and blaming on your learning. When this happens what will you do differently? What do you know of examples that seem to work for you where you have managed beliefs and blaming differently?
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LEARNING SITUATIONS – IN SCHOOL
This activity can help you think in detail about the different learning situations you meet in school. And it might help you to get more out of them!
Do Compare learning in school in the following situations:
two situations in which you are learning well
one situation where you are not learning well
a learning situation in school when you are not in lessons.
For each of the situations, think about the questions in the table and make some notes.
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Learning not in
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What situation
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is it? Where?
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Who are you
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with?
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Who is
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organising
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the situation?
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Who sets
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the agenda?
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In what way
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does the agenda
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include your
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goals?
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How do you go
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about the
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learning?
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How do you feel
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about the
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learning?
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Review What differences do you notice between the situations? What similarities do you see in the situations? Compare your answers with a friend’s. Are they similar or
different?
Learn Look at your notes and identify two or three ways in which the ‘learning well’ situations are different from the ‘not learning well’ situations.
Apply Can you use any of what you know about good learning situations to help you improve the not so good learning situation? Discuss this in a small group and decide what actions you might take.
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LEARNING SITUATIONS – BEYOND SCHOOL
This activity can help you think about learning as a lifelong process – in other words the idea that learning does not stop after school! It can also help you in your skills of learning by doing research.
Do Design an interview to find out experiences and views of other people about learning in and out of school and after they left school, including learning in and out of the workplace.
What are they learning now? Where? Who with? And how is it similar to or different from the
learning they did
at school?
Use your interview to talk to a range of people, for example:
someone who has just left school
someone who has had more than one job
someone who is not in paid work
a retired person.
Review What happened? Did you have any surprises in what people said about learning?
What did it feel like asking these people?
Did you think your interview got the information you wanted?
If you did the activity ‘Learning – in school and out’, did what people said differ from what you said in that activity?
Learn What did you learn from people’s responses:
What and how people need in order to learn at different times?
How much learning people do after they leave school?
How learning changes over time?
Their view of learning?
What did you learn from this about doing research?
Apply What ideas are you having about your own learning after leaving school?
Redesign your interview to take account of what you have learned about doing this research.
You might want to extend this research to more people or to ask more questions.
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