Learned Optimism
WHS -- Jan 2011
This PowerPoint is set up in 2 parts:
#1) review resilience & intrinsic motivation
#2) learn how to reframe negative thoughts &
build learned optimism for success in
TEST TAKING.
(a skill that can be transferred to life in general)
Lessons from a
Skateboard Park
Intrinsic motivation
& engagement
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Why will someone
practice and fall,
practice and fall,
practice and fall
over and over again?
Review what you already know
about intrinsic motivation
Next, look at following slide to see
what we all need to be engaged
and intrinsically motivated……?
Everyone needs:
 Sense of security
 Sense of belonging
 Sense of purpose
 Sense of personal
competence and pride
 Sense of trust
 Sense of making real
choices and decisions
 Sense of self discipline and
self control
 Sense of encouragement
support and rewards
 Sense of responsibility
 Sense of accepting mistakes
and failure
 Sense of contribution
 Sense of family self esteem
Discussion:
How can we take the
lessons we learned in the
Skateboard Park about
intrinsic motivation &
engagement and adapt
them into the classroom
environment??
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Characteristics of
Resilient Student
Recognize and manage own feelings/understand
feelings of others
Have a sense of independence and self worth
Form and maintain positive mutually respectful
relationships with others
Ability to solve problems and make informed
decisions
Have a sense of purpose for future/ HOPE
Advantageous Skills in
Successful
Student?
Intrinsic motivation/ self
Restraint/delayed
discipline
gratification
Self
respect/esteem/personal
power
Integrity/honesty/spiritu
ality
Humor
Justice/tolerance
Self/acceptance/love
Resistance
skills/adaptability
Compassion, kindness,
caring/insight
Peaceful conflict
resolution
Social skills/manners
Sense of
purpose/positive future
Creativity/initiative
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Now …A look at the road
to Learned Optimism
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Instead of worrying about what people
say of you, why not spend time trying to
accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
2009 Twitter
Take a look at how
pessimists and optimists
approach a problem……
Explanatory Style
Permanence
(pessimistic)
Temporary
(optimistic)
Universal
(pessimistic)
Specific
(optimistic)
I’ll never lose
weight, diets
never work!
Diets don’t work
when you eat in
restaurants.
All teachers are
unfair.
Professor Jones
is unfair.
I’m Repulsive.
You always nag.
You nag when I
don’t clean my
room.
Your boss is a
//!!@#%%
Your boss is in a
bad mood.
I’m repulsive to
him today. With
my rumpled
clothes and
messy hair.
Books are
useless.
This book is
useless.
You never talk to You haven’t
me!
talked to me
much lately.
Think about the info below- you will be
using this technique in a moment to think
about test taking……
hopeless
hopeful
I’m stupid!
I was sleep deprived when I did that.
All men are tyrants!
My boyfriend was in a bad mood for
a good reason.
Chances are 9/10 that this lump is cancer.
Chances are 9/10 that this lump is
nothing.
Pen left uncapped
……What doesn’t kill us
makes us stronger
How long does
this last?
Who’s
responsible?
How big is this?
Optimistic point
of view
A few minutes
I am
Frustrating, not
important
Pessimistic point
of view
At least all day
- if not longer
Anyone but me
-I got distracted
8 on a scale of
1 to 10
Learn to
Reframe your thoughts:
1) recognize automatic thoughts
2) dispute (disagree with) automatic thoughts
3)make different explanation
4) distract yourself from depressing thoughts
5) learn to recognize and question depressive
assumptions
Practice
What are some scenarios in your
own life where you loose track of
reality?
1) The teacher blamed me for something I didn't do..
Now reframe.
2) Juan ignored me in the hall, he must hate me…..
Reframe
3) what else?...............
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Finals/CSAP/Scantron
How can you apply learned optimism
and techniques about
reframing to help you be
prepared and positive for CSAP?
look at the following scenarios and
reframe (first one is done for you):
(you think) I am totally lost… this is a literacy question
about figurative language…..what the #$%&&!! Does
this question mean?
1) Use hyperbole to explain
how big the fish was that you
caught recently.
(you think) Aohh wait… I have a good memory and
remember my teacher telling me to look at word parts
…hmm… hyper- I know it means lots of movement
someone who can’t sit still- --exaggeratedI think I will exaggerate the size of my fish and
say……….. It was as big as a mountain, Pikes Peak!
Now you do the reframing:
1) I can’t believe I only have 15 minutes
left- I am so stupid and slow- I will never
finish! reframe
2) I am certain I missed all 5 of the first
questions--- this is a mess- I will never
get a proficient grade. reframe
3) Other possible scenarios?
If it’s going to be –
it’s up to me…..
Put the pieces together
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-BE Happy
-BE Resilient
-BE Optimistic
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IMAGINE
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