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There are three assignments to practice the knowledge about confidence in your own abilities:

• Assignment 1.1: Discover your strength in a challenging situation. (5 minutes)
• Assignment 1.2: Turn your brooding thoughts into positive thoughts. (5 minutes)
• Assignment 2: Discover your strength in blooper situations. (8 minutes)

Definition: Making the right decisions and choices to deal with difficult situations.

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Learn to handle setbacks better in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Mapping your coping strategy. Different ways of coping with setbacks. (5 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Coping in your classroom. Learn from others' coping strategies. (30 minutes).

Definition: A goal is a desired situation. Goal setting is about knowing exactly what you think is important in life and what you want to achieve.

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Learn to set goals in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Focus and goal setting. Become aware of the power of goal setting (5 minutes).
• Assignment 2: What dream would you like to turn into reality? Practice goal setting. (10 minutes).

Definition: Creating opportunities and making the most of them.

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Learn to create opportunities in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Brainstorm on paper. Individual assignment to create new opportunities. (20 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Make a personal plan. Create your own opportunities. (15 minutes).

Definition: Teamwork means working in collaboration with others to achieve a goal.

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Learn to work better in a group through the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Two Truths One Lie. Introductory game at the start of a collaboration. (25 minutes)
• Assignment 2: Working together. Teamwork exercise in which instructing plays a major role. (20 minutes).
• Assignment 3: Word for word. Connecting with the other person. (15 minutes)
• Assignment 4: Collaboration contract. Make agreements about cooperation. (15 minutes)

Also, check out the web page with all tips and useful documents to help yourself and your group learn to work together: the self-help kit Group Work.

Definition: Giving and receiving constructive feedback to and from fellow students.

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Short animations on effective peer feedback, created by the VU Education Lab:

Learn to give and receive feedback in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: The rules of good feedback. Practice giving and receiving feedback. (20 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Feedback is a gift. Practice receiving feedback. (15 minutes).

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You can practice reflecting on your own identity with the following three assignments:

• Assignment 1.1: Discover your own identity in conversation with another person. (5 minutes)
• Assignment 1.2: Make a log and chart your thoughts, feelings, behaviour and consequences to gain insight into your identity in relation to another person. (8 minutes)
• Assignment 2: Which elements of your identity do you pay attention to? (3 minutes)

Definition: Meeting people and staying in contact with them to cooperate in fulfilling tasks and achieving goals.

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Master networking in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Targeted networking. Map out how your network can contribute to reaching your goals. (15 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Elevator Pitch. Learn to introduce yourself using an elevator pitch. (20 minutes).

Definition: Skills to overview, monitor and evaluate one's own thinking and learning.

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Practice your self-regulation in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Learning scrutinized. How good are your self-regulation skills? (30 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Find focus. Five tips for improving concentration while studying (10 minutes).

Definition: Creating and executing a study planning.

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Learn to plan and predict better in the assignment:

• Assignment 1: Planning. It can be learned. (30 minutes).

Definition: Reflecting on what is going well and what could be improved. Reflecting on the learning process and on the outcome.

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Learn to evaluate on your learning process more effectively in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Compare and learn. Understand what you're good at and what you struggle with. (15 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Rank your approach. Get insight into what works for you. (30 minutes).

Definition: Skills to absorb and process knowledge and information. For example: summarizing, creating your own examples, using a mind map.

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Learn to better elaborate the curriculum in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Strategies. Experiment with new strategies. (10 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Mind-mapping. Studying texts. (30 minutes).

Definition: Organizing the learning material and thus making it comprehensible (e.g. distinguishing main and secondary issues through mind mapping).

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Learn to better organize study material in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Learn to memorize better. Create visual diagram. (30 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Create tree structure. Create an outline of the information. (30 minutes).

Definition: To repeat and practise learning material.

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Get better at repeating subject matter in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Question each other. Quiz each other to repeat the material (15 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Make questions. Repeat through your own questions. (15 minutes).

Definitie: Verschillende invalshoeken bekijken en zelfstandig tot weloverwogen afwegingen en beslissingen komen. Niet zomaar alle informatie voor waar aannemen.

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Learn to apply critical thinking skills in the assignment.

• Assignment 1: Working with propositions. How can you learn to think critically? (30 minutes).

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The two assignments to practise problem-solving skills cover the following topics:

• Assignment 1: Practice different solution strategies and improve your problem-solving skills. (5 minutes)
• Assignment 2: Explore your preferences in problem-solving strategies. (5 minutes)

Definition: Skills to conduct (scientific) research according to the empirical cycle.

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Learn to conduct research better in the assignments:

• Assignment 1: Research starts with curiosity. Spark your own curiosity. (15 minutes).
• Assignment 2: Think outside the box. Learn to think critically. (duration depends on the linked assignment).
• Assignment 3. Look for connections. Look for cause-effect relationships and coherence. (10 minutes).