In The Student Mindset, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have marshalled their wealth of experience and hard-hitting research in order to devise an ingenious method of analysing the learner and dissecting the learning process.
Oakes and Griffin focus on the learner's core competencies in terms of their vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA), and the essence of this book details thirty stimulating and vibrant tasks for the learner based around these traits. The activities allow the learner to take responsibility for their own learning journey and to set their sights on success by acknowledging the ups and downs of the learning process with a view to overcoming the downturns from an intuitive and intellectual standpoint.
The Student Mindset provides the teacher or tutor with strategies to help learners surmount obstacles to learning by considering methods of preparation, initial starting point for study, information-gathering techniques, performance-testing methodologies and feedback processes. The reader, consequently, will be furnished with a step-by-step approach which cannot fail to enlighten both learner and educator alike.
The Student Mindset thus is a fascinating and refreshing treatise which provides valuable insights into the learning process and can set the learner on a trajectory bound for success. This work will be an essential vade mecum for the dedicated educator because it brightens the much-sought-after light at the end of the learning tunnel.