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What are we discovering?

What resources and strategies do preservice teachers draw on to activate resilience?

Our study revealed that the preservice teachers drew on personal and contextual resources as well as drawing on a wide range of strategies to activate resilience.

Personal Resources included:

  • Being self-aware and knowing your own capacity for stress;
  • Being brave and having courage to take risks;
  • Having a sense of self-efficacy;
  • Being resourceful;
  • Demonstrating positive emotions an having a bounce back mentality;
  • Being aware of the need for self-care.

Contextual resources included:

  • Have the support of family;
  • Having the support of peers;
  • Having the support of university supervisors;
  • Having the support of colleagues and social networks;
  • Being aware of the people to approach for support (both in and out of the school context);
  • Critical role of the supervising teacher.

Strategies identified

  • Being persistent;
  • Setting boundaries;
  • Demonstrating emotional self-regulation;
  • Using self-talk;
  • Having realistic expectations;
  • Being proactive in initiating their own learning and professional development;
  • Spending quality time with family and friends;
  • Exercise;
  • Doing something for yourself.
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