OER for Skills of tomorrow’s well-being
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Building a Growth Mindset: Helping Children Learn from Challenges
Children develop important transversal skills when they experience challenges, make mistakes, try different strategies and discover that they can improve through learning and practice. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities can develop. For pupils aged 6–10, this does not simply mean “trying harder”. It means learning that when something is difficult, they can try another strategy, ask for help, use feedback, learn from mistakes and keep working towards improvement. This approach can support several transversal skills developed in the SPIRIT project, particularly Resilience, Flexibility, Problem-solving and Critical thinking. From Challenge to Skills development The key message is that…
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How Children’s Brains Build Skills: Neuroscience for Primary Teachers
Children’s brains continue to develop throughout the primary school years. Experiences, relationships, practice and feedback all contribute to this development. For teachers, understanding a few basic principles about how the developing brain learns can help create better opportunities for children to build important skills. A particularly important group of abilities is known as executive function. These include working memory, self-control, attention and cognitive flexibility. They help children focus, remember instructions, manage their behaviour, adapt to change, solve problems and think before acting. These core abilities also support the development of many transversal skills addressed in the SPIRIT project, including emotional…
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Developing Emotional Awareness, Regulation and Communication in Children Aged 6–10
Emotional awareness, regulation and communication help children recognise what they are feeling, understand their emotions, manage their emotional responses and communicate their feelings appropriately to others. These abilities are closely connected: before children can regulate or communicate an emotion effectively, they first need to notice, recognise and understand it. Sourse: https://psychology-spot.com/emotional-awareness/ For pupils aged 6–10, these skills can be developed through everyday classroom experiences. Talking about feelings, building emotional vocabulary, recognising emotions in stories and real-life situations, discussing possible responses and modelling appropriate emotional expression can all help children gradually understand and manage their emotional world. In the SPIRIT project,…
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Supporting Transversal Skills through the PERMAH Model
Transversal skills help children learn, build relationships, manage challenges and participate actively in their communities. The SPIRIT Framework focuses on ten transversal skills that can be meaningfully developed in children aged 6–10: Emotional awareness, regulation and communication; Creativity; Problem-solving; Critical thinking; Resilience; Flexibility; Curiosity, sense of wonder and openness; Empathy; Valuing people and nature; and Connectedness. These skills do not develop in isolation. They are interconnected and closely related to children’s everyday experiences, relationships, learning and well-being at school. The PERMAH model offers teachers a useful framework for thinking about the conditions that can support children’s learning, development and well-being.…