For the Classroom
Resilience
Rebuilding confidence to move forward after difficulties
Resilience helps schools recover from setbacks and continue moving forward.
When educators and students bounce back with determination, the entire community grows stronger. Resilience builds confidence and adaptability.
Essay
Resiliency for All Students
By Sandra Szczygiel, MS, LPCC-S
Resiliency refers to an individual’s ability to adapt to challenges, overcome setbacks, and cope with adversity. In the classroom, fostering resiliency is essential for helping students effectively deal with academic challenges as well as social/personal struggles. Encouraging resiliency in the classroom benefits students in several ways:
Improved academic performance
Enhanced emotional well-being
Increased positive social interactions
Preparation for the challenges of life
Some strategies teachers can use to promote resilience in all students:
Emphasize growth.
Instill in all students that hard work can increase skills, abilities, and knowledge.
Emphasize effort over innate talent.
Reward improvement as much as achievement.
Model resilient behavior.
Share personal experiences of overcoming challenges.
Create a supportive environment where mistakes are viewed as learning opportunities and where students feel safe to take risks and ask for help.
Teach problem-solving skills.
Coach emotional regulation. The goal is to give every student the opportunity to thrive.
Teach goal-setting and self-assessment.
Build strong relationships.
It is important that resiliency is nurtured in all students, regardless of level of intelligence, socioeconomic background, or exposure to trauma. The goal is to give every student the opportunity to thrive.
By encouraging resilience, educators can empower students to build the confidence needed to succeed in life.
Affirmations for the Classroom
I keep trying, even when it’s hard.
I can handle tough things.
I am gentle with myself when I mess up.
I can ask for help anytime.
I get better a little more every day.
Resilience Resource Library
The Links below will take you to Resources like activities, lessons, reflections, tools, and visuals you can use in the classroom or in homeschool to teach the Character Quality of Resilience.
Resilience Quotes
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