RESILIENCE

Resilience: List

OBJECTIVE

Learning resilience

The purpose of these activities is to provide guidelines for the parents to nurture, develop and boost children's resilience. Resilience is often referred to a person’s ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress. More generally, resilience is an ability to bounce back and recover from difficulties and misfortune.
The learning activities are divided into 4 sessions according to Cope and Kalantzis’ (2015) Learning by Design framework.

Resources

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

In the first session, when using educational apps such as Resilience: Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame, parents can use the following prompters to guide children to recognise emotions:
- What do you think the character feels?
- Can you tell me about a time when you felt the same way?

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

During the second session, parents can use the following prompters to guide the child to explore ways of responding to emotions:
- What do you do when you feel sad?
- What do you do when you feel scared?

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

During the third session, parents can perform a deep analysis of the narrative in the educational app with children.
Parents can guide children to reflect on appropriate ways of responding to challenges using the following prompters:
- Do you think the character coped well with the problem?
- Why is it important to know how you feel?

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

In the fourth session, parents can direct the child to relate their learning experience of the narratives to real-life, and scaffold them to apply the strategies to remain emotionally stable.
Parents can extend learning to the child's experience using the following prompters:
- What can you do when things don't go your way?
- How will you encourage yourself when you are sad?

Contributor: QLL