Raising Resilient Students

The unprecedented disruption caused by the pandemic warrants schools and educators to play an essential role in helping children develop the determination and ability to persevere through difficult circumstances by inculcating resilience in them.

If we go by the dictionary meaning of resilience, it is defined as the ability to bounce back from adversity. For students, especially school children, the past two years brough disruption on a grand scale, with the pandemic affecting virtually every aspect of their daily lives.

The unprecedented disruption warrants schools and educators to play an essential role in helping children develop the determination and ability to persevere through difficult circumstances by inculcating resilience in them. Resilience helps them to emerge from challenging experiences with a positive sense of themselves and their future.

Kanak Gupta, Director, Seth MR Jaipuria School; Abhishek Yadav, Founder Chairman & Academic Director, Griffins International School; Amol Arora, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, Shemrock & Shemford Group of Schools and Avinash Agarwal, Founder Director, Disha Publication speaks at BW Education’s EduTech Summit and Awards 2022 on the strategies that can be deployed in classrooms to develop resilience in students as well the role of resilience in tackling fear of failure and peer pressure.