Why are you here

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Why are you here?

• In order the four top influences on educational
  success
• Economic security
• Family
• Neighbourhood
• School

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Helping your daughter to succeed at GCSE

• Outcomes for this session1. For us to
  understand how learning happens in schools, why
  and how revision at home needs to work2. What we
  need to do to manage and support behaviours by
  our young people for effective learning

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Why invest in learning ?

• Secure a place post-16 on the course of choice
• Achieve potential satisfaction confidence
• Employability knowledge society
• Life choices Life chances

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• Plan for this session
• The brain and learning.
• How learning happens
• The 5 Rs for effective learning
• What you can do to support your daughters
  learning

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• 4 key ideas about the brain
• The brain is developing in adolescence, can do
  things to shape its development
• Different parts of the brain have different
  functions the links between them need to be
  built and maintained
• There is a strong link between our motivation and
  attitude to learning and our emotions.
• Intelligence is complex and multiple

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Idea 1The brain is developing in adolescence
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2. Linking the different functions of the brain
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Idea 3 Motivation and learning

• The Psychology of Excellence

• Conscious mind sub-conscious mind script/
  belief
• The script we have about what to think and how to
  behave influences 80 of what we do/ our
  performance
• We as adults are key in informing the script that
  children have and the belief they have in
  themselves

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Change the script Reframe the problem and use
different solutions not do more of the old
solution!
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Motivation and learning the link to
attainment The Skill/ Will matrix
High
Will (Motivation)
Low
Low
Skill (Knowing how to)
High
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Idea 4 Intelligence is complex and multiple
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Learning in the classroom Activity A man and a
woman are standing side by side each with his or
her weight on his or her right foot.They begin
by walking so that each steps out on his or her
left foot.The woman takes three steps for each
two steps of the man.How many steps does the
man take before his right foot strikes the ground
at the same time as the womans right foot ?
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How did you solve the problem?

• Did you ?
• Walk side by side with your partner ?
• Draw out the steps?
• Walk your fingers along the table ?
• Work out the ratio in your head ?
• Talk it through?

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Learning styles

• Visual drawing, diagrams, graphs, images,
  timelines, posters, PowerPoint presentations
• Auditory talking, listening, quizzes, songs to
  music
• Kinaesthetic doing, moving, making
• VAK!

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What was your learning style?

• Walk side by side with your partner ? (K)
• Draw out the steps? (V)
• Walk your fingers along the table ? (K)
• Work out the ratio in your head ? (V)
• Talk it through (A)

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Styles of learning- skills

• Using different ways of learning makes good
  neural pathways- reinforces memory (GCSE!!!)
• We learn in different ways and prefer some to
  others
• Intelligence is not fixed

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Implications for the classroom and for learning
at home

• The role of model learners and modelling
  learning will and skill building
• Use of learning styles to meet multiple
  intelligences skill building and creativity
• Creating a safe learning environment
• Developing learning dispositions knowing what
  to do when you get stuck, how to review, how to
  improve- skill building
• Use of ICT for stimulating, motivating,
  current, mixed-media, interactive resources-
  skill building

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Emotions and revision

• Positive attitudes good revision
• Good stress good revision
• Bad stress bad revision

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What does inspiration mean? Will

• Every day is a good day
• Make children feel capable and loveable
• Make children feel safe
• Paint great pictures wouldn't if be great if
• Be positive see the doughnut
• Face the facts- see the hole !
• Make children feel in control

This is US!!!!!! Teachers and parents/ carers as
models
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What have we learned so far?

• The different parts of the brain need to have
  good neural pathways to remember
• There are different learning styles and different
  ways of building these neural pathways
• Students need to be aware of and exploit their
  preferred learning styles
• Students should use a range of learning styles to
  memorise
• Memory is the most significant indicator of GCSE
  success
• Emotions impact on motivation and effectiveness
  of learning

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• The 5 Rs for learning

Readiness
Resourcefulness
Remembering
Reflectiveness
Resilience
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What can you do to help?

• Monitor and support your daughters lifestyle
  habits sleep, diet, exercise, routine
• Share and discuss revision, be taught!
• Provide the right environment for revision
• Rewards, praise and support, stress management
• Tools to support revision
• Be inspirational- be her coach, the 5 Rs (slide
  22)
• Accept the statue and the pigeon

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Homework for parents

• One of the best ways of learning is to teach it
  to someone else. Get your daughter to teach you
  something eg two learning techniques from the day
  tomorrow
• Find out about learning and memory techniques eg
  Tony Buzan, the Alite company- be a learner too!
• Be your childs coach identify their script and
  help them to change it eg what did you find
  challenging form the learning day, lets work on
  it together
• Review this presentation its on the school
  website eg http//copthall.barnet.lgfl.net

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The role of ICT

• Multi-media images, text, video
• Quality of resources- motivation
• Reinforcement images and ideas
• Re-cap/ review
• Copies to revise/ review in own time, own pace,
  own way