Overcoming The Odds Connect With Kids Case Study

Overcoming the Odds - Connect With Kids

View the following videos and complete the two worksheets on D2L: The Seven Resiliencies and Overcoming the Odds - Connect with kids. Drop into the drop box. You will have today and tomorrow after presentations http://www.connectwithkids.com/newarkpublicschools/vidpages/vid_odds.html After viewing the 5 segments on resilience answer the following questions.

1. Define resilience.

To be able to bounce back after a time of difficulties, to be able to quickly emotionally recover from a time of darkness. It is the ability to be able to overcome times of difficulty and to be able to persevere and know that it will getter. Resilience is the ability to know that times have gotten better because

To the point that if you work hard enough you can overcome the odds. Every person has a key to success with resilience, having someone believe in them and having the mindset that even if they fail they will persevere and push through in order to achieve their goal.

4. How is Melanie’s story a good illustration of resiliency? (Part 2)

In the part of town where Melanie lives, she's witnessed more crime and more gruesomeness than most adults have, and only at the age of fourteen. Shes has been living with her grandmother for over a year because her parents left her and she had nowhere to go. Using her resilience, Melanie has overcome this hard situation and is trying and succeeding to live a better life, and to make a better life for her family.

5. Do you believe that “every child can succeed … against all odds?” Explain your answer. (Part 3)

I believe this statement because even though Heather is blind and disabled and despite the fact that all the odds are against her, she persevered and continued trying. And eventually she managed to do things such as rock climbing, jump roping and other things. She worked against all odds and she excelled in every single subject and she excelled in pursuing her

That it doesn't mean that this person who is seemingly holder of all the good cards, will succeed and do what they want to do in life and what they want to excel in. this is because they might not be resilient. Resilience comes naturally to children, it should kick in and be the thing that makes children get and try again until they succeed. But they can lose resilience by not trying, but thinking that they're not good enough, or that they won't get to be what they want to because they're not deserving of it. And playing the poor hand well means that even if you are in the worst situation and even if your feeling that you'll never make it, that being able to keep your resilience high and constant will help you achieve your goals. As persevering and remembering that anything is possible is what keeps some kids learning and achieving, even if these students are poor, or disabled or discriminated against.

7. What are the three “Ps” that make it hard to be resilient? (Part 5

The three Ps are Permanent, which indicated that the problem cannot be solved and won't be solved, Persuasive, telling yourself that the problems are everywhere and are taking over your life, and Personal, making yourself believe that all these problems are somehow your fault and that you caused