{"id":309,"date":"2009-09-02T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/uncategorized\/positive-psychology-exercises-improve-students-outlook-behavior-in-school-tag-research-psychology"},"modified":"2009-09-02T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:54:31","slug":"positive-psychology-exercises-improve-students-outlook-behavior-in-school-tag-research-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/positive-psychology-exercises-improve-students-outlook-behavior-in-school-tag-research-psychology","title":{"rendered":"Positive psychology exercises improve students&#8217; outlook &#038; behavior in \tschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/positive-psychology-hits-classroom.html\" class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;\">This article<\/a>, reports that making school students go through positive psychology exercises helps them get a better impression of school in general, improves their behavior in classroom, and a bunch of other good stuff.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote><p>For example, one exercise in the positive psychology asked students to list 3 good things that happened to them each day for a week &#8211; then the follow-up questions asked what the event meant to them and what can increase the likelihood of this happening again (kind of connecting the dots for the students). <\/p>\n<p \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p \/>The net result: positive thinking and resiliency training <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">improved <\/span>students&#39; school outlook and engagement, improved classroom behavior and cooperation, resulted in more self-control, and more empathy. Not bad!<\/p>\n<p \/><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#39;s not all &#8211; think about this:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;\"><p> students who believed that intelligence was a fixed entity were more likely to show no improvement in their math achievement from 7th to 8th grade, more likely to withdraw or cheat, and less likely to demonstrate mastery-reactions to setbacks. Not surprisingly, the students who believed intelligence could be &#39;grown&#39; &#8211; were more likely to persevere, show resiliency behaviors to setbacks, and improve performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>See <a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/positive-psychology-hits-classroom.html\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>(Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sandygautam\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sandygautam<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/navin.posterous.com\/positive-psychology-exercises-improve-student\">Navin&#8217;s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, reports that making school students go through positive psychology exercises helps them get a better impression of school in general, improves their behavior in classroom, and a bunch of other good stuff. For example, one exercise in the positive psychology asked students to list 3 good things that happened to them each day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/positive-psychology-exercises-improve-students-outlook-behavior-in-school-tag-research-psychology\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Positive psychology exercises improve students&#8217; outlook &#038; behavior in \tschool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9,6,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}