Resilience Strategies

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept it and try to put something together that is good” — Elizabeth Edwards. Becoming resilient is not an easy thing to do, because it takes mental strength and time. For example, in the book Once by Morris Gleitzman, a fictional story, Felix the protagonist is a Jewish boy who was able to stay strong despite all the hardships he faced. Felix becomes resilient by putting others before himself which helped him get over the many struggles he was faced with.

Resilience is about how an individual deals, resists, recovers and learns from adversity’s in life. If a child is resilient they are less likely to be damaged as a result of negative experiences and are more likely to learn from and move on. In order for a child to be resilient they need to believe in themselves and have others they can rely on in their lives.

For some people the strong word resilience can impact one’s life in a significant way. Overall, resiliency is having the ability to still enjoy and continue your life with positive, good times, regardless of a hard past or bad experience. It can be shown in various ways throughout a text, including the setting, the plot, and characterization. This is how the texts, The Other Wes Moore, The Art of Resilience, and The Third and Final Continent share their common theme. This theme the three texts convey is that resiliency is vital for a positive as well as successful life.

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Father Gregory Boyle, resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

Over decades, the research of resilience has developed from understanding individual’s resilience qualities and protective factors, to the process of resilience and the interventions that promote resilience (Richardson, 2002; Wright et al., 2013). Recently, the focus of resilience shift to the neurobiological process because of the development of science and technology (Wright et al., 2013). While these literatures emerging, there are two noteworthy issues. First, the outcome of the studies were mainly emphasized on main-stream population (Ungar, 2006). Second, little attention was given to resilience across cultures (Ungar, 2006; Ungar et al., 2005). Hence, it is important to investigate how resilience is being defined and understand in different cultures; what are the challenges when conducting a cross cultural research; and what are the key elements when implementing intervention in different cultures.

Reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls can help build a student’s resilience especially if that student is in a tough moment in his or her life. The Glass Castle shows that Jeannette the main character suffered from a life she now looks back on and did not like. Her life turned upside down after living alone in a house that was falling apart and she had no food to sustain herself, she moves to New York with her sister Lori, in the hope of finding a better life. There is going to be motivation based on being consistent in a daily task that students would be faced with. Being invested in their education can help students become hard workers to build up their resilience. Having a desire to achieve the goal that the students has set for themselves.

Able to recover quickly from misfortune; able to return to original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched out of shape. A human ability to recover quickly from disruptive change, or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional or harmful ways. As in "Our team showed great resilience," or "Our team had good resiliency." (n.d.)

During our lives we come across many difficult times in which we learn important skills. However, our actions choose what skills we've gained. For instance, a person who makes rational choices, keeps aware of what these choices do, and never letting the situation over take them have the characteristics of a resilient perosn. People with resilience have a way of dealing with problems in the most effective way possible, like Louie Zamperini, who was lost at sea for months after his plane malfunctioned and crashed. His fight for survival brought forth these traits and caused him to outlive his situation.

Strategy: Relate to students on a human level. My Implementation: My students, whether they are living in poverty or not, need to see teachers as regular people who are truly vested in the growth and progress of the students. To me this can be so easy, all it takes is showing a genuine interest in their lives and making connections with yours.

Many of the actions which support resilience are what most practitioners do naturally: showing care and concern, offering routine and consistent discipline, and building children’s trust by keeping promises.

I've been studying about resilience in English lately and learned a lot. To add to that did you know that you could actually improve your resilience which is pretty legit. Which is something I never knew, it surprises me because I thought it was a trait not something that is worked on. .As Mandy Oaklander stated in her article "Resilience training can help deal effectively with chronic disease and their quality of life said Charney". With the information I gotten from the article I am trying to become much more resilient for example, this F I have in English I know I'm going to come back that's what I do. Resilience is not a trait it is worked on it is a certain skill that everyone needs cause without it you can’t succeed

The first strategy is, teach to developmental needs. Even if teachers teach to different student’s needs it will all be for not if they do not create a positive environment that is beneficial to all students. Students need to move

The first strategy the teacher uses is a question that all the students can answer independently. Second strategy used by the teacher is a question that requires the students to elaborate in detail on general information. The second question builds upon the first question and the students have to be a little bit more specific. The

As part of your holistic development through this course we aim to improve your resilience throughout the course. Please take a brief moment to answer the 8 questions below as honestly as you can.

One of the most important traits for my education and my life is resilience. The ability to make a mistake and come back from it quickly. This is one of the most important and basic skills I have learned in life. It however is not a skill everyone has learned, some people are adults and still aren’t resilient, tossing their life away over menial things. In today'sthis day inand age this this is more clear than ever, people can’t take insults, can’t take small infractions on their beliefs, and most of all aren’t ready for the reality of life.