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Mental Health & Kindness

19/05/20

By Vince Sanderson
Our Lead Trainer Vince Sanderson has written a blog for Mental Health Awareness Week following the theme of kindness.

In a world where we are encouraged to look after ourselves, to be number one, where success is often defined as how famous you are or how much money you have, surely in the most resourceful time in history, we should also be the happiest we have ever been?

Intrinsic Motivation Can Be Contagious

15/05/20

Lauren D. Goegan, Morgan Klevyer, David Z. Fargo, and Lia M. Daniels
Motivation fluctuates day by day during the school year. It can be especially hard to sustain intrinsic motivation, which originates from within each person and is associated with enjoyment and persistence toward the end of the year (Ryan & Deci, 2017). In addition to typical motivation fluctuations, students, teachers, and parents are dealing with unprecedented at-home learning situations introduced by COVID-19. The following strategies can be helpful in sustaining student and teacher motivation, even in trying times.