YCDI Education!

Term 1 Year Levels Overview

Lesson 4

Prep: Gabby knows How to Get Along

1. Students will understand what it means to get along with others
2. Students will recognise examples of what it means to get along nicely in play activities.
3. Students will demonstrate friendly behaviours towards others.
4. Students will say that getting along means sharing, speaking nicely, taking turns when playing with others, following rules, helping to keep school clean and safe, following important classroom rules and not fighting.

One way to be very happy and popular like Gabby Get Along is to practise getting along by sharing, speaking nicely, taking turns, following rules, helping make your classroom safer and not fighting when you have a problem with someone else.

Year 1: Meet Penny Persistence

1. Students will be able to state the meaning of ‘persistence’.
2. Students will be able to understand themselves as learners – discuss their strengths and weaknesses as learners and identify some learning strategies to assist them.
3. Students will be able to become confident, resilient and adaptable – undertake and persist with short tasks, within the limits of personal safety

Students who are very successful are also very persistent. They know that sometimes when things are hard to do or take a while to complete, they have to keep on going – to persist – before they can play or have fun.

Year 2: Persistence: How hard is it Really?

1. Students will learn that tasks vary in their degree of difficulty.

Students will learn that being persistent, especially when the task is hard, will help them to be more successful in their schoolwork.

1. Students will learn about some ways of thinking that help them to be persistent.

While some tasks at school may be easy for you, some may be more challenging, and some will be very difficult for you. When you have to do something that is challenging, a bit boring or not your favourite thing to do, using helpful ways of thinking can help you to be persistent and successful in the end.

Year 3: Persistence Pays Off!

1. Students will be able to state the meaning of ‘persistence’.
2. Students will be able to state the relationship between the attitude of Giving Effort and persistence.
3. Students will be able to state the difference between ‘helpful thoughts’ that lead to persistence and ‘unhelpful thoughts' that lead to giving up.

The reason that students are successful at learning is that they bring with them the ‘key’ of persistence – especially when attempting schoolwork and other activities that they feel are too hard. Having the attitude of Giving Effort means telling yourself that the harder you try, the greater your chance of success will be.

Year 4: Be Confident in Your Mistakes

1. Students will appreciate the importance of not giving up and finishing a task (persistence).
2. Students will understand the advantages of doing schoolwork and chores they find boring or difficult and the disadvantages of putting off their work.
3. Students will understand that ‘needing’ to have fun all the time is not sensible and only makes it harder to have fun as well as get work done (Working Tough).

To be good at persistence, students need to be good at weighing up the benefits of having fun now with the benefits of doing their work first and then having a good time. What’s more important for their future success and doing their personal best – work or fun?

Year 5: The Persistent Payout – Success!

1. Students will know the three attitudes that help students to be persistence (I Can Do It!, Work Tough, Giving Effort).
2. Students will understand that exaggerating the difficulty of a task makes it harder to do.
3. Students will understand the relationship between motivational thoughts and task persistence! Persistence means working on and completing tasks and activities that feel like they are too hard to do. There are three types of thinking that help people to be persistent:
4. I Can Do It! -When learning something new that is hard to understand or difficult, I am more likely to be successful than to fail.
5. Giving Effort – The longer and harder I try without giving up on something that is difficult to do, the more successful I will be.

Working Tough – I want things to be exciting, fun and not boring but they do not have to be. I know that to be successful, I sometimes have to do things that are not easy or fun.

Year 6: Packing Yourself with Persistence

1. Students will understand the meaning of ‘persistence’.
2. Students will understand that positive self-talk can help them to become persistent.

Success has much more to do with persistence than it does with talent. Trying hard and figuring out different ways to do your personal best develops your brain power, too – it sets you up for more success when you enter high school.