Mindsets At the Orange-Green interface Are we teaching to survive or teaching to thrive?
Imagine a school where teachers and students tend to each other’s wellbeing on a daily basis. A school where everyone is aware of the conditions that create thriving learning communities. A school where teachers and students alike openly discuss their strengths, weaknesses, hopes and dreams for themselves and the world.
Surviving
Surviving simply means ‘to continue to live or exist’ after uncertainty or crisis.
Resilience
In psychology, resilience is defined as an individual’s ability to adapt to life challenges, social disadvantages or highly adverse conditions.
Thriving
Thriving is a condition beyond resilience and surviving. The concept is drawn from evolutionary sciences, in which successful adaptations have three characteristics: •
preserving what it needs to survive
•
discarding or rearranging what it no longer needs, and
•
creating new arrangements that generate capacity to flourish in more challenging conditions.
medium.com/benefit-mindset/are-we-teaching-to-survive-or-teaching-to-thrive-d72b9517ceaa