“Stretching ALL Learners to Feel Challenged” Master Class Programme: Well-being: High Challenge, High Support and Thinking About Your Self “Stretching ALL Learners to Feel Challenged”

Do you feel like this?

Today’s session… Explore what takes your time and ‘stresses you out’ begin to apply a range of strategies to support you with the stress of exams including developing resilience. Ensure you have the knowledge of support within NLS.

What takes your time and stresses you out? Activity 1 We spend at least 35 hours a week in the classroom. Outside of this list the ten tasks that take up your time. Think of two tasks that you know you should do in the week but rarely get round to.

What is resilience? Why do you need it? Activity 2 Ability to maintain successful performance and well-being while under pressure and facing difficult / challenging times. It includes recovering from and / or adjusting quickly to misfortune or change. In pairs think about your Exam preparation- how resilient do you feel? What steps have you taken to develop your resilience? How are you/do you plan your revision? What do you do the night before an exam? The morning of the exam?

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How do others cope? http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/pages/coping-with-exam-stress.aspx

Tip number 1: Thinking traps Thinking Traps are common patterns in thinking that prevent a person from seeing a situation accurately. In stress inducing situations, it's common to fall into a Thinking Trap. They narrow our field of vision: Thinking Traps often lead to missing important information and reduce performance Always Trap Character Assassination Trap Me, Me, Me Trap Them, Them, Them Trap Avoid Thinking Traps! Notice patterns: What are the patterns in the traps you fall into? Ask yourself questions around the traps to put them into context. What are yours? What thinking traps have you fell into? “I am a terrible teacher, I haven't marked my books for weeks, all the kids hate me, I didn't ....” What can you do to recognise / minimise them?

Tip number 2:Put it into perspective What is the skill? PIIP is a method to stop worst case scenario thinking and cope with the most likely implications When do I use it? Use PIIP when you are ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’ or ‘making a Himalaya out of a mountain’ How do I use it? List the Worst Case, Then Best Case, Then identify the Most Likely outcomes After Most Likely- develop a plan for dealing with them

NEXT Steps…exam days Eat well Sleep well ( early to bed, early to rise!) Water ( not red bull!) Do not cram! Create a revision timetable Take time out Exercise Use NLS

What NLS can offer 70p breakfast Supportive teachers Support room AND MUCH MORE.