LESSON REVIEW
The following six lessons, three of each type, will introduce you to the format used for all MindSage durable skill lessons. The lessons are grounded in real-world corporate soft skill training from leading companies, which educators have further refined through a four-year period of pilots and testing.
LESSON TYPE: REFACTORING
These lessons are designed to help students transition away from the 'classroom mindset,' where they are typically assigned tasks, towards a more proactive approach where they are required to think more independently. In this new approach, students learn to set and achieve goals, solve problems, provide honest input and feedback, and take initiative to innovate.
Note, that each lesson includes three sections or segments. Ideally, segments should be spaced out over the course of the week. While we recommend covering the lesson on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, instructors have flexibility in deciding how and when to cover each section.
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LESSON TYPE: DEEP DIVE
These lessons are designed to inspire students to delve into deeper, more intricate aspects of their thoughts and emotions, fostering insight and understanding of how these factors influence their current decisions and future actions.
Note, that each lesson includes three sections or segments. Ideally, segments should be spaced out over the course of the week. While we recommend covering the lesson on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, instructors have flexibility in deciding how and when to cover each section.
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LESSON TYPE: PRACTICAL
These lessons are designed to help students develop durable skills that offer immediate benefits in the workplace. They help students cultivate practical, applicable, and pragmatic traits, qualities, mindsets, and habits that deliver quick results.
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Approach Summary
MindSage: An Organized Approach to Teaching Durable Skills.
Our program consists of 32 core durable skill lessons but continues growing its library of durable skills lessons.
MindSage is in four states, spanning 22 schools and reaching over 10,000 students who have actively engaged in our durable skills training lessons.
Start by assisting students in cultivating the foundational durable skills of self-awareness, self-appreciation, and self-acceptance.
Establish a well-thought-out sequence for teaching core durable skills (including those listed by Americasucceedes.org), that logically progress through four levels, each consisting of eight lessons, to ensure a comprehensive and structured learning experience.
Define and organize the various categories or types of durable skills lessons within this sequence based on their purpose, namely, 1) fostering deep changes in mindset and personal development, 2) addressing and reframing habits unintentionally developed in school that hinder success in the workplace, and 3) providing lessons that enable students to develop habits and qualities with an immediate positive impact in a workplace setting.
Deliver information in short portions over a continuous and consistent timeframe, encouraging both individual and group metacognitive reflections to strengthen students' retention and recall of the lessons learned.
Encourage students to prioritize discussions about what they've learned about themselves in relation to the lesson, not just what they've learned from the lesson itself.
High School Student exit interview.
What they’re saying.
For participants to engage with the MindSage durable skills program, they need to understand that the development of durable skills is important and beneficial to them and their future. Please watch the following videos.
High School Student exit interview.
College Students