Jun 6, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Can you remember your first day at High School? How were you feeling as you walked through the gates? If you ask any adult about the transition from primary to secondary school, they can quite often remember some key moments. I remember being told that there would be...
May 16, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
What does the research say? Research using the mental toughness model and the MTQ48 in education is relatively new. St Clair-Thompson, Bugler, Robinson, Clough, McGeown and Perry (2014) carried out three studies examining the relationship between mental toughness and...
May 15, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Research undertaken in Northern Ireland shows that SEN teachers who score highly on mental toughness cope better with pupils who present challenging behaviour in the classroom. Stress and burnout, as a result of having to deal with challenging behaviour, is one of the...
May 12, 2017 | Education, Employability, Mental Toughness
What is Mental Toughness? Personality can be defined as an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Key to this is Mental Toughness which explains why individuals behave the way they do. In other words, it is the thinking element of...
Jan 24, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
This post was taken from TES. See original post here Independent schools know that development of resilience is not only a good selling-point but also brings greater success in hard-edged exam results, writes one head It’s official, then: children in independent...
Jan 20, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Fiona Clapp Education Blog In the second half of this term my school along with about 60 other independent schools will embark on a fascinating piece of research commissioned by the ISC, the aim of which is to measure whether independent schools are better able to...
