Course Introduction

Students are growing and learning in a complex world; making big decisions at a critical time. As they navigate complexity and hardship, students will need to maintain balance and a strong sense of self. Cultivating perseverance will help students to do so, directing their own paths to live the life they want to lead in the future.

Course Overview

In this course, you'll explore strategies to help students cultivate their capacity to persevere.

    1. Welcome & course information

    2. Download the resources

    1. Introduction to stopping

    1. Introduction

    2. Loss aversion

    3. Doubling down

    4. Quitting

    5. Worked example

    6. Activity

    7. Strategies

    1. Introduction

    2. Identifying indicators

    3. Ignoring indicators

    4. Strategies

    5. Strategies cont.

    1. Introduction

    2. Context

    3. Activity

    4. Strategies

    1. Feedback

    2. Congratulations & next steps

About this course

  • 21 lessons

NESA Accredited

Completing Cultivating Perseverance: Stopping isn’t Quitting will contribute 1 hour and 30 minutes of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Student/child Mental health addressing Standard Descriptor(s) 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Meet your instructor

Hannah Beder is a computer scientist and Creatable's Learning Design & Research Lead. She has worked in a variety of roles across the technology and education industries, and in 2020 she was awarded NSW Young Woman of the Year for her contributions to these fields. She is passionate about equity of access to education.

Why perseverance is important

Perseverance is a core tenet of student wellbeing and is increasingly recognised as a critical skill for the future of work. Creatable has drawn on existing research about perseverance to underpin this course, and highlight the shared value of perseverance across education and industry settings. You’ll be able to download our Perseverance White Paper from inside the course.
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How to measure capacity for perseverance in students

Before diving into cultivating perseverance, it is important to establish a baseline of where student abilities presently lie. Creatable’s rubric articulates each aspect of perseverance in detail, so that you can understand current strengths and limitations before applying the learnings from this course. You'll be able to download the Perseverance Rubric from inside the course.
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