The GCSE Mindset: 40 activities for transforming student commitment, motivation, and productivity, written by Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin, offers a wealth of concrete, practical and applicable tools designed to supercharge GCSE students’ resilience, positivity, organization, and determination. At a time when GCSE teaching can feel like a conveyor belt of micromanaged lessons and last-ditch interventions, Steve and Martin – acclaimed authors of The A Level Mindset – suggest a different approach, underpinned by their VESPA model of essential life skills: vision, effort, systems, practice, and attitude. These five non-cognitive characteristics beat cognition hands down as predictors of academic success, and in The GCSE Mindset, Steve and Martin take this simple model as their starting point and present a user-friendly month-by-month program of activities, resources, and strategies that will help students break through barriers, build resilience, better manage their workload and ultima
