We have been sharing our learning at our Student Led Conferences. This shows Positive Accomplishment. We have been talking about how we have been working towards our goals, how we are motivated to persist despite challenges and setbacks.
The Positive Accomplishment Literature Review from the Institute of Positive Education says that, "an essential aim of positive education is to help
students develop their potential through striving
for and achieving meaningful outcomes. Within the
model of positive education, a focus on wellbeing
and flourishing is interconnected with efforts to help
students learn, achieve academically, and develop skills
and competencies. Positive accomplishment involves
helping students embrace opportunities, learn from
disappointments, and maintain effort in the face of
adversity. In the increasingly challenging, global, and
competitive environment schools provide invaluable
opportunities for helping students to deal proactively with
both opportunities and setbacks. In addition to benefits
for themselves, it is hoped that students will pursue goals
and objectives that have beneficial consequences for the
greater community.
Integral to positive accomplishment is the pursuit of
goals. Goals are believed to provide mental sign posts
that direct and sustain cognitive and behavioural efforts
(Covington, 2000). Helping student to develop self
concordant goals is believed to be especially powerfully
in increasing motivation and perseverance (Sheldon
& Elliot, 1999). Similarly, helping students to cultivate
mastery goals and growth mindsets ensure they will seek
out feedback and view setbacks as opportunities to learn
and grow (Grant & Dweck, 2003). By nurturing hope, it
is believed that students will become increasingly excited
about future possibilities, understand that challenges
and set backs are an inevitable part of life, and develop
the grit and resilience to persist when times are tough
(Snyder et al., 1997). Similarly, Duckworth et al.’s (2007)
work on grit emphasises that no great accomplishment
is achieved without persistence and effort. Overall, it is
proposed that helping students strive towards meaningful
outcomes and embrace new opportunities with grit,
hope, and a growth mindset equips them for success in
the present and the future. "
Read more on their website: https://www.ggs.vic.edu.au/Institute/Resources/literature-reviews
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