CATALYST | March 2022
Monthly insight of student and teacher activities at SPK Sekolah Pelita Bangsa Cirebon
Monthly insight of student and teacher activities at SPK Sekolah Pelita Bangsa Cirebon
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CONTENTS<br />
Principal's Message<br />
SPB Podcast Re-Launch Season 2<br />
Skill Enrichment Program<br />
Virtual Field Trip: Clothes Study<br />
Our Community Party<br />
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After several weeks of being fully online,<br />
I am glad that we will be resuming to<br />
meeting majority of our students face to<br />
face in Term 4.<br />
Term 4 will be a busy and productive<br />
term. Some of our students will take their<br />
Cambridge Examinations and School<br />
Leaving Exams; while there are also<br />
some exciting activities will be conducted<br />
during the upcoming Primary Literacy<br />
Week. In addition, AIMO Math Olympiad<br />
(P2-JC1) is there for all the Math<br />
enthusiasts.<br />
As our students start Term 4, I hope<br />
they will take time to carefully reflect<br />
on their term 3 result and recharge their<br />
dedication and motivation to continue<br />
learning.<br />
Please enjoy the special articles in this<br />
issue on Grit and Persistence. In addition,<br />
we are proud to announce the coming<br />
of our Season 2 podcast series with<br />
more current and updated information<br />
regarding higher education.<br />
Virtual Talk Show on Proverty<br />
Global Perspective Class<br />
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Spotlight On<br />
3 Well Known Successful People...<br />
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Warm Regards,<br />
Regina Elisabeth T. B.Sc, M.Ed<br />
(Executive Principal)<br />
Helping children grow into<br />
their best selves<br />
How persistence and grit<br />
helps kids succeed<br />
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HIGHLIGHT<br />
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SPB PARENTING TIPS 1<br />
muscle that gets stronger with practice, so<br />
encourage your child or young person to<br />
take a breath when angry, be patient and<br />
wait, and look forward to receiving gifts at<br />
special times of the year rather than getting<br />
them on demand.<br />
Helping children<br />
grow into their best<br />
selves<br />
by Michael Grose<br />
Encourage exploration<br />
Young children are great explorers of<br />
territory, ideas and behaviour. Their curiosity<br />
shows no bounds and can lead them into<br />
trouble. The socialisation process that we<br />
undertake as parents is designed to keep<br />
kids social and safe. But that shouldn’t mean<br />
that we discourage the curious spirit that<br />
children possess.<br />
As kids move through primary school into<br />
the identity formation years of adolescence,<br />
stimulate their curiosity and exploratory<br />
activities and interests, discuss a variety of<br />
ideas and topics and form relationships with<br />
different children and diverse generations.<br />
Require self-control<br />
Does your child react or respond to a difficult<br />
situation? Does your child spend all their<br />
pocket-money on themself or are they<br />
encouraged to save some of their allowance<br />
for later? Lack of emotional control and an<br />
inability to delay gratification until later will<br />
generally hold most kids back from reaching<br />
their full potential. Self-control is like a<br />
Model empathy<br />
Sensitive children generally have empathy<br />
in spades, while bullies lack the ability or<br />
willingness to put themselves in the shoes<br />
of others. Parents, grandparents and carers<br />
are well placed to model empathy. When a<br />
child comes to you with a problem or worry,<br />
validate their concerns with a response<br />
such as, “Ah, I see you’re really worried by<br />
this.” Such a response teaches a child the<br />
empathetic language they can use when<br />
siblings and peers experience difficulty.<br />
Convey compassion<br />
Compassion and caring are encouraged in<br />
education and parenting circles as prime<br />
values to instil in children and young people.<br />
By developing compassion and caring in<br />
kids we lay the foundation for not only a<br />
strong sense of community but also for<br />
individual happiness that comes from<br />
contributing to something bigger than the<br />
individual.<br />
Embed wellbeing<br />
If there is a lasting legacy that schools<br />
are making to the current generation, it’s<br />
their recent focus on children’s wellbeing<br />
practices and principles. As a community<br />
we are just coming to grips with the fact<br />
that good mental health and wellbeing is<br />
central to a person’s long-term happiness,<br />
work and relationship success. You can<br />
assist by embedding wellbeing habits of<br />
healthy eating, exercise, sleep, relaxation<br />
techniques, regular time in nature, gratitude<br />
and mindfulness into family-life.<br />
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SPB PARENTING TIPS 2<br />
SPB PARENTING TIPS 2<br />
How persistence and grit helps kids succeed<br />
by Michael Grose<br />
“Talent or persistence. Which would you<br />
choose for your child?”<br />
Parents naturally want both. Sorry, but<br />
that’s not an option.<br />
When pushed most parents choose<br />
talent over persistence, which in many<br />
ways reflects the current thinking around<br />
achievement. Intelligence, sporting<br />
prowess and ability in whatever it is we<br />
value will only get a child or young person<br />
so far. Talent is purely potential. They<br />
need more than this to achieve sustained<br />
excellence in anything they do. It is the<br />
character traits of hard work combined<br />
with their ability to stick at a task and see<br />
it through that makes all the difference.<br />
Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers,<br />
described twenty-something American<br />
student Renee, who took 22 minutes<br />
to work out a complicated math<br />
question. The average student gives up<br />
after THREE minutes, preferring to ask for<br />
help than work through a problem. Renee<br />
is unusual as she persisted for 22<br />
minutes until she got the solution. The<br />
funny thing is that she doesn’t describe<br />
herself as a good math student. But she<br />
is highly successful at Math.Grit rather<br />
than pure math talent is her forte.<br />
Character matters<br />
Cognitive skills by themselves aren’t<br />
enough for children to succeed over the<br />
long journey. Many recent studies (most<br />
notably the work of US-based Angela<br />
Duckworth) have found that character<br />
not cognitive ability is the single most<br />
reliable determinant of how a person’s<br />
life will turn out. These traits include the<br />
inclination to persist at a boring task<br />
(grit); the ability to delay gratification<br />
(self-control) and the tendency to follow<br />
through with a plan (conscientiousness),<br />
which are invaluable traits at school, in<br />
the workplace and in life in general.<br />
Character works as an indicator of<br />
success when it’s seen as a set of<br />
strengths and personality traits rather<br />
than personal values such as loyalty,<br />
tolerance or forgiveness.<br />
Character is forged under difficulty<br />
The key character traits of grit, self-control<br />
and conscientiousness are forged under<br />
hardship and duress. This makes our current<br />
propensity to over protect and over indulge<br />
kids problematic – something I wrote about<br />
in my book Spoonfed Generation. When kids<br />
continually experience easy success we<br />
set them up for failure because when they<br />
finally face up to difficult situations many<br />
lack the capacity to push through the tough<br />
times.<br />
Character is malleable<br />
The good news is that character, like<br />
intelligence, is malleable. It’s not fixed. It’s<br />
important to establish in your own mind as<br />
a parent and also in children’s minds that<br />
character traits such as grit, self-control and<br />
conscientiousness can be developed.<br />
To this end it’s important then that parents<br />
steer clear of using absolute language to<br />
label behaviour and views traits and abilities<br />
as fixed. Comments such as “You’re no good<br />
at math” become a rule that young people<br />
learn to live by, and become default thinking<br />
that’s hard to budge.<br />
Make grit part of a family’s brand<br />
In my book Thriving! I wrote how every<br />
family has it’s own distinctive brand, which<br />
is a reflection of the strengths and traits that<br />
all members share.<br />
For instance, if high work ethic is a common<br />
trait then it’s a fair bet that hard work is<br />
something your can focus on in your family.<br />
You can actively promote grit and<br />
persistence in kids by making character part<br />
of their family’s brand. Focus on character in<br />
conversations. They can share experiences<br />
where character paid off for them in their<br />
lives. Discuss how character contributes<br />
to excellence and success in every day live<br />
including at work, at school and in<br />
the sporting field. Character and its many<br />
components can become part of the family<br />
narrative regardless on the age of children.<br />
Build proprietary language around character<br />
Families develop their own language around<br />
what’s important to them and that needs<br />
to include character if you want to foster<br />
excellence. Continuous messaging of terms<br />
and phrases such as ‘hang tough’ and ‘hard<br />
yakka’ help weave character traits into the<br />
family DNA.<br />
Reflect on the language and terms you use<br />
and build key phrases and terms around<br />
the following key character strengths: grit,<br />
self-control, conscientiousness, enthusiasm,<br />
social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and<br />
curiosity.<br />
Character becomes the default mechanism<br />
Habit and character go hand in hand.<br />
Conscientious young people don’t go<br />
around consciously deciding that they’ve<br />
got to delay the fun stuff until they’ve<br />
done their work. They’ve just made it their<br />
default mechanism to stick at their task, or<br />
delay gratification, or jump into a task with<br />
enthusiasm.<br />
Conscientiousness doesn’t always serve<br />
a young person well. They can sometimes<br />
place full focus on menial or unimportant<br />
tasks when a smarter option may be to<br />
cruise and save energy for the important<br />
times such as exams.<br />
That’s where parental guidance plays a part.<br />
However in the long run conscientiousness<br />
serves a young person well when it’s their<br />
default because when the stakes are high<br />
they will automatically make the right<br />
choice. In fact, it will be the only option<br />
when excellence really matters.<br />
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