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.
