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Highlighting Resilience

 

How do you handle setbacks and disappointments, academic or otherwise?
Like strengths, everyone has areas that give them trouble or experiences that set them back. These difficulties may be in an academic subject your high school education didn't prepare you for, learning skills you haven't developed very well yet, or problems from out of the blue that appear to up-end your hopes and plans. Resilience is the ability to recover from weak areas and setbacks.

 

Resilience is a strength; it’s "how" you react to problems and disappointments. 

Resilience is the set of strategies you use to avoid giving up or letting a problem or disappointment defeat you. Resilience has to do with determination, of course. It also has to do with the ability to ask for help, to make alternative plans, to continue to develop more sophisticated learning strategies, and to manage your own learning. Resilience is impressive.

Consider writing a paragraph in your eportfolio journal on your techniques for resilience and including these insights in your responses to the mid-year questions.

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