Ignite a spark of resilience and endless possibility with Challenge Accepted!, a Growth Mindset activity sheet inspired by Singaporean Olympic champion, Joseph Schooling. This engaging resource is designed to help students define a growth mindset and apply its principles to a personal challenge.
What’s Included in Your 21-page Growth Mindset PackĀ
- Teacher Guide: This comprehensive guide provides everything an educator needs to lead the lesson, including learning objectives, core values, social-emotional learning goals, and a step-by-step breakdown of the activity.
- The Story of Joseph Schooling: A one-page story of Joseph Schooling’s journey, from a young boy with a dream to a history-making Olympic gold medalist. It frames his success as a Challenge Accepted! moment, highlighting his growth mindset qualities like persistence, focus, and belief.
- My Challenge Accepted! Activity Sheet:
A personal challenge sheet for students to fill out and share. The activity sheet guides students to:- Part 1: My Challenge: Identify a personal challenge they are currently facing, whether at school, home, or in a sport or hobby.
- Part 2: My Mindful Plan: Create a specific, actionable plan to tackle their challenge using a growth mindset, just like Joseph Schooling.
- Part 3: My Hero’s Words: Describe their hero using words that reflect a growth mindset, such as persistence, resilience and strength.
Why This Activity Is a Game-Changer
- Cultivates Unstoppable Minds: This activity helps students learn that a fixed mindset is believing your abilities are set and can’t change, while a growth mindset is the belief that you can improve with effort and practice. It teaches them to rephrase fixed mindset phrases like “I give up” to “I’ll try a new strategy”.
- Fosters Core Values and Resilience: The lesson emphasizes the core value of resilience. It encourages students to show courage, optimism, adaptability, and resourcefulness.
- Boosts Self-Management and Focus: The activity is designed to help students with self-management, teaching them to self-regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve personal well-being. By reflecting on Joseph Schooling’s focus, they learn the importance of staying focused on a goal.
- Sparks Self-Directed Learning: This activity aligns with 21st Century Competencies by promoting self-directed learning. Students take responsibility for their own learning by identifying a challenge and creating a plan to overcome it.
This activity is licensed for use by one educator or one parent only.
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Grade:
SG: Primary 3 onwards
UK: Year 3 onwards
US: 3rd Grade onwards
Format of download: PDFĀ
