Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Building mental toughness strategies

Your goal today is to research different strategies for building mental toughness. You should use the links below as well as your search skills to find other articles about the topic.

Complete the questions for 3 of the articles below or ones you find on your own. Then complete the discussion questions afterwards. Be ready to share out your thoughts as a whole class.

You can use te handouts from class to hand in, or you can type out your answers in a word document or email and send it to me at: robert.rhone@new-haven.k12.ct.us

Answer these 4 questions about 3 other articles below (you can use another article that is similar if you find one on your own- be sure to include the title and website so I can reference it)
1. Summarize the context of the article. Explain who wrote it and why. 
2. Why does the author think the mental toughness is important? 
3. What are the specific techniques the author describes to help some increase their mental toughness?
4. What parts of this strategy could be helpful to a high school student or athlete? 
ANALYZE AND CONNECT 
1. What were some similarities between the ideas presented about mental Toughness?
2. What were some differences between the ideas presented about mental toughness? 
3. If you were going to present to an athletic team at our school any of the strategies from an article you read which ones would they be?
4. How would you present them? What kind of activity or presentation would you make? (be specific) 



















Use the links below to find new ideas about getting mentally tough:

5 Powerful Exercises To Increase Your Mental Strength





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