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- Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and execute successful learning.Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and strategies that deliver those results.By cutting through the noise surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling authors Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have identified the five key traits and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA).These characteristics beat cognition hands down, and in The Student Mindset Steve and Martin provide a ready-made series of study strategies, approaches and tactics designed to nurture these qualities and transform your motivation, commitment and productivity.The book's thirty activities, while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been organised around six key phases of learning so that you can recognise which phase you're in before choosing from the range of tools and techniques to help you get through it. The six co-existing key phases are: preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting, testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the dip. At each phase you'll experience challenges and discover new ways of working, and this book's activities have been designed to help you gain control and become a better learner by sharing workload management tactics and revision strategies associated with calm, purposeful study and ultimately getting good results. These tools include a range of effective prioritisation, stress reduction, procrastination-busting and mindset development approaches all neatly packaged into this outstanding practical guide to becoming a successful and confident student.Suitable for all students.Shortlisted for the Non Obvious Book Award.
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The Student Mindset
A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning anything
Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin
Contents
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all at Crown House Publishing who encouraged us as we worked on this project. Many thanks in particular to those who’ve helped us shape the book: David and Karen Bowman for their thoughtful feedback and consistent support; Daniel Bowen for his assistance; Beverley Randell and Rosalie Williams for all their hard work; and Emma Tuck for her attention to detail. Graphics and design have been important on this project so a big thank you goes to Tom Fitton for his tremendous work.
Manchester Metropolitan University has been an important part of this project – thanks for the debate and discussion, non-stop coffee and endless snacks. Special thanks go to Dr Jennifer McGahan for her relentless support of the VESPA model and for making sure that we stay research-informed.
We would also like to thank Kevin Green at the Manchester Health Academy and all his staff for testing and trying the VESPA tools with their students. And, of course, special thanks to our families for everything else.
Visit us at thestudentmindset.com, follow us on Twitter@vespamindset for our latest updates or say hello via [email protected].
Introduction
Please note: In the printed edition of this book, space is provided for the reader to answer questions posed in the text. This isn’t possible in this ebook format so please use a notebook instead.
We’ve spent a combined forty years studying how people learn.
We’ve followed students who battle through difficult times, stay positive and get really good results – and wished we could be the same. We’ve worked with students who get exasperated, unfocused and demotivated – and recognised our past selves in them too.
We’ve spoken to thousands of students about how they study and what they do every day or week that makes a difference. We’ve discussed the problems we all face when we try to learn something new.
We’ve discovered huge amounts.
For example, we’ve learned that past success does not correlate with future success; some students with a track record of underperforming go on to achieve amazing results, while others with a great track record don’t achieve what they were hoping for.
We’ve seen scores of students persist with approaches that aren’t working well and spoken to hundreds of students who have decided to study in new ways. Many of the latter have seen their results change significantly as they’ve adjusted their tactics. We’ve seen that while cognitive factors can be important, non-cognitive factors also play a huge role in academic success.
Most importantly, we’ve found that there are a set of tools and strategies that keep coming up when we ask successful students what it is they do. They seem to be in control – they’re balanced, grounded and happy despite the challenges of study.
We’ve been lucky enough to borrow these techniques and apply them to our own studies. We’re both currently students ourselves, and we’ve become better learners by stealing the tricks and tactics associated with calm, purposeful study and, ultimately, getting good results.
In short, we’ve discovered that academic success isn’t just about intelligence. This might seem counterintuitive at first, but time after time we’ve seen students do well because of the way they work – the routines, strategies and habits they’ve created for themselves.
These tricks and tactics are what this book is all about.
What’s in a Mindset?
A mindset is a set of beliefs, principles and values which influence the way you see the world. Adopting a particular mindset is like putting on a pair of glasses – a set of lenses which modify your vision, sharpening some things and blurring others.
We think the five characteristics we’ve just shared beat intelligence hands down. And they form a mindset that’s going to put you in the best position for success. This is the student mindset.
The VESPA Circle
Where do you think you sit at the moment? It’s worth spending time thinking about which VESPA elements you might be strong in and which elements you might need to strengthen.
This is a simple activity to get you thinking about VESPA and to help you figure out where you might need to develop. First, consider the statements below on the continuum. Think of the line as being a 1–10 scale.
Now you’ve assessed the statements, try to assign a rough numerical value for each element of VESPA between 1 and 10. Recreate Figure I.1 in your notebook. Then simply shade in the section on the profile, working from the inside out.
Figure I.1. The VESPA circle
Now you’ve got a visual sense of where you are, you might want to pay particular attention to certain activities as you work through this book. When you come across one that deals with an area you might feel weaker in, give it your full focus.
