If you always do what

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• If you always do what
• youve always done,
• youll always get what
• youve always got!

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An adventure in learningsearching for the
treasure
Whats the treasure we are looking for?
self-assessment
Ask the right questions
Indicate where to go next
Increase motivation
Build self-esteem
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Do we do things because its a good idea

• or because someone else thinks its a good idea?
• video

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In times of rapid change the learners will
inherit the Earth, while the learned will be
beautifully equipped to live in a world that no
longer exists
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ActivityWhat do you do when you are trying to
learn something?
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When we were young

• According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,
  those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's, and
  70's probably shouldn't have survived, because...

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• My cot was painted with lead based purple paint
  that I chewed and sucked
• I made little figures for my scaletrex out of
  bullet shaped pieces of wax I found underneath
  the sink
• I rode a bike without any breaks on it
• I drank out of the farm yard hose-pipe
• I rode my boggie down hills and crashed it and
  tried to make it go even faster

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To
BECOME
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The three most important factors in learning
are motivation, motivation and motivation.
Sir Christopher Ball
Motivation
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Does you have a Head of Motivation?
If the answer is no, what made you decide that
you didnt need one?
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Activity

• How do you model
• creativity what creativity looks like?
• Taking a risk in terms of learning?
• trial and improvement rather than trial and
  error?
• high levels of motivation?

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Success and failure
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Upward spiral
Success is experience by the learner
Reinforcement occurs, including praise,
self-praise and peer praise
Motivation increases as does persistence and
effort - work improves!
Self-belief students believe I can do it and
self-esteem improves
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Downward spiral
Criticism or lack of
reinforcement occurs, including lack of personal
satisfaction
Failure is experienced by
the learner
Motivation falls as does effort. Work
deteriorates
Self-belief falls Child believes I cant do
it. Self-confidence self-esteem falls.
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Activity

• Note down one area we have been talking about
  that will impact on your work
• Trial and error or trial and improvement
• Taking risks and creativity V doing what you are
  told and sticking to what you have always done
• Success V failure

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a glance into you as a personality

• Shapes and people

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Team players talkers

• Right brain orientated
• Lets sit down and talk
• Lots of love
• I'm snowed under but Ill lend you a hand
• Peacekeepers
• Genuine concern
• Commitment
• Trust
• Generosity
• Nurturing loves to be needed
• Compromise
• Generosity

• Guilt
• Self-denigration
• Talks too much
• Gossipy
• Over emotional
• Gullible
• Over emotional

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Goal setters

• Left brain orientated
• Problem solvers
• Quick thinking
• Decision making fast pace
• High energy
• Can do attitude
• Strong traditional values
• Works and plays hard
• Successful
• Voracious readers
• Firm commitments to others
• Movers and shakers
• Risk takers

• Must be in control
• Inability to admit mistakes
• Impulsive decision maker
• Temper!
• Too much (smoke, drink )
• Not openly affectionate in public
• Manipulative

Movers shakers
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• Left brain dominant
• Disciplined, hard workers
• Consistent and predictable
• Stable and calm
• Commitment
• Hard worker
• Respected for knowledge
• Traditional, strong sense of values
• Love to do lists
• Plan before acting
• Neat
• Like predictability

Workers Analytical thinkers

• Can be anti social in large groups
• Tunnel vision
• Resistant to change
• Low risk taking
• Perfectionism
• Compulsive behaviour same basic values in all
  situations

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• Right brain dominant
• Constant unpredictable change
• Stimulating and exciting
• High energy
• Sense of humour
• Sudden unexpected success
• Direct and honest
• Full of surprises (good and bad)
• Creative intelligence
• Fast mover
• Paper work is a waste of time
• What if we did it like this?
• Interrupts lots
• Rebellious

Free spirits creators MOTIVATORS

• Fickle in relationships
• Erratic shifts (boredom to flamboyance)
• Disorganisation
• Sloppy personal habits
• Impatience with slow thinkers
• Moves from one place to the next

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Experimenters Change artists

• Left brain dominant
• Excitement
• Experimenter
• Unexpected spurts of energy
• Humour
• Playful
• Surprises
• Questions everything
• Empathy and support
• Theres a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
  if I could only find it!

• Confusion
• Erratic
• Fatigue/minor illness
• Accident prone
• Mood swings
• Criticism of others dissatisfaction of self
• Forgetfulness
• Preoccupation with self

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The brain and learning

• Knowing how the brain works can help us make
  learning more likely

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Right and left
My brain and how it works
Emotions and learning
Taking it all in
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Playing and stress

• Playing and learning

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Designed for learning not really!!
high challenge
low stress
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There is a massive difference between challenge
and stress, but, only a thin dividing line
separates them The problem for us is that
each person will draw it in a different place
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Play and your brain

• Young children use 15 of their total energy on
  play
• Not only does it make them fitter, prepares them
  for the rigours of life but it gives them bigger
  brains!
• Research published recently suggests that the
  amount the brain grows between birth an maturity
  reflects the amount of play carried out
• Your brain produces more connections than it
  needs in a very short period of time
• Based on research by Dr. Steven Siviy

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Play and imagination

• Make-believe play results in children better able
  to cope with stress in later life
• Creative 5 6 year olds often end up better
  problems solvers at the age of 9 10
• Conclusion play and use of imagination is not
  just good its vital!
• based on research carried out at Case Western
  University by Prof. Sandra Russ

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Problems at play .

• Play is not something the Western child is given
  the opportunity for or learns as of right
• Play once learned by grandparents is being
  replaced by TV, computer games and many children
  are loosing the skills of cooperative play
• Is it time to teach the pupils how to play?

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How do we learn - impact on what we do in our job

• Basic structure of the brain
• how can this knowledge can help us learn?

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Learning through science
Scan 1, act of memorising (visual images). Scan
2, act of recall Scans 3 and 4, Questioning,
predicting, analysing comparison, planning,
decision making. The results of the experiment
were reported in November 2000
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Neo-cortex our uniqueness!
Mammalian brain emotional centre memory sex
Reptilian brain instinctive responses
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Reptilian brain
Survival - fight or flight
Breathing, balance, instincts
Defensiveness - space, friends, things
Mating rituals - showing off!
Hierarchies - gangs!
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Why is laughing good?

• Enhances the immune system increases the number
  of defence cells
• Reduces stress
• Lowers blood pressure
• More able to deal with cognitive challenge
• Has positive effects on cancer and rheumatoid
  arthritis
• Reduces symptoms of depression
• Improves sleep
• Produces sense of well being