Below are a few new suggestions, related to our third training session:
- Watch this animation about the positive no- approach or read this book or read this article
- Go for a walk with a colleague who also followed this training course and conduct a conversation using the seven steps of progress focused helping
- Brainstorm together about a structure which supports you as a group to keep on using the elements of the progress focused approach each of you wants to keep using. E.g. plan a progress lunch every month in which everyone reflects on the achieved progress of the last month and tells the other which progress they want to achieve the following month.
- Deepen your knowledge about the growth mindset by reading about it in the book Creating Progress or read this article about beliefs, affordances and adolescent development or read this article or look at some of the posts you’ll find when clicking on this link
Presentation
Below you find six new suggestions. Could you choose three which interest you?
- Watch this animation about motivation and directing, listen to this podcast and read chapter 5 in the book Creating Progress. Subsequently, talk to your colleagues about if/when directing might be in order in your work with students
- Learn more about progress focused techniques by listening to this podcast about progress focused helping and this animation about the continuation question and read chapter 3 in the book Creating Progress
- Read How teachers can combine autonomy-support with structure and How teachers’ motivation and mindset predicts how they teach
- Read this article about basic psychological needs across cultures or this book
- Listen to one or two of the podcasts which appear when you click on this link or watch some of the animations which appear when you click on this link (mostly in Dutch)
- Use the circle technique (for yourself, with a student or a group of students or in your team)
Here are six suggestions, which are related to what we talked about during session 1. Would you please select a few that interest you and do those in preparation of session 2?
- Read chapter 1 in the book Creating Progress and afterwards reflect on which of the beliefs about progress currently appeal most to you and how people around you can notice you’re endorsing those beliefs
- Learn more about a few progress focused techniques by listening to this podcast about four progress focused roles and this podcast about developing your own growth mindset
- Go for a walk with one of the other participants in our training group and conduct a conversation using the seven steps of progress focused helping. Use the questions in your handout on page 2. Listen to this podcast about progress focused helping and read chapter 4 in Creating Progress before or after your walk
- Read chapter 2 in Creating progress and select one or two interventions which you like to try out in your conversations the next few weeks.
- Read this article about cultural differences in progress focused conversations
- Choose one of the cards in your Progress Box and reflect on your answers to the questions on the card. Alternatively, find one of the other participants in our training group and interview that person using the questions on the card (and vice versa)
Dear all,
On 14 April we’ll start with the first training session. My name is Gwenda Schlundt Bodien and I’m looking forward to working with you.
This internet page
This internet page is just for your group and will be used in support of the training sessions. On this page I will upload articles, podcasts, videos and suggestions.
Book & Progress Box
There’s a book and a card box available for you, so that you can read more about the progress focused approach and make use of progress focused questions. You can get the book and the box via Sanne Bosma.
Sessions
The training course consists of three sessions:
- 14 April 2-5 pm online
- 19 May 1-4 pm physically at Hanze
- 23 June 1-4 pm physically at Hanze
What can you do in preparation?
If you’d like to do something in preparation of the first training session you can choose one of the following suggestions:
- This week, at the end of each day, pay attention to which (small) progress you’ve achieved that day. Make a note of your progress.
- Have a look at the table of contents of Creating Progress and choose a topic that interests you to read about.
- During a few conversations this week, focus consciously on joining and acknowledging the perspective of your conversation partner.
Centre for Progress Focused Work
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- Books about the progress focus