With the volume of published research on resilience, it is surprising that there is not more of a consensus on how to teach it or even whether it can be taught at all.
Yet, against this uncertainty, one of the clearest things I and many of my colleagues have learned through our classroom experience is that there is no doubt at all that resilience is something worth having as a young student and, indeed, as a young person. Moreover, everything tells me it is something that can be taught.
Anyone who has taught children will know, from time to time, every student needs to demonstrate resilience. The problem is that some seem to have it naturally, while others have to be helped to develop it. After many years of experience, it is clear that no matter how resilient a child is when they join our school, everyone (teachers included) can always get better.
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