It was a privilege to listen to Nigel Latta speak today. He shared his belief of how invaluable teachers are and the impact we play in our students and families lives. Most importantly he stressed the need for us to care for ourselves.
Neuroscience and Learning
Neuroscience and Learning
Context matters
Neuroplasticity
Brains are plastic - Hebb’s principle
50 hours of practice to master something
Spiders - you have to stay on the train to overcome fear. Exposed to spider for 5-7mins. Brain overcomes the fear.
Brains can also change quickly.
Default network
Neutral - human stuff - social
Shape experiment with babies - friendly yellow triangle. Every baby picked up helpful yellow triangle
Social brains - we all have them - powerful. Helpful
Swing side is emotional feelings of pain - hurt feelings. Grief and pain use the same feelings. Excluded. Health impact of loneliness.
Micro teaching and feedback really important so affected by class size!!
Expectations of themselves
Growth mindset - fixed mindset
These are the Teacher attributes Hattie sees as most helpful to learning
Which part of brain are kids operating from?
Which part of brain are kids operating from?
Using humour to rebalance and disarm situations. Helping them to calm and use cortex part of brain.
Rewrite- helping to practise and plan for different ways to respond.
Mindfulness - compassion and self kindness
Future
Revolution Revolution
46%of the jobs we currently have will disappear or be severely affected over the next 2 decades.
Driverless cars. Retail
Helicopter flying - manage the one thing that is going to hurt us right now.
Getting kids ready for the unpredictablity of the future. To do this we have to get the parents ready.
Trades
Gig economy
Roam - the obstacle is the way
The most important thing - their expectations of themselves
Technology is a ladder out of your situation
You
Leadership and Balance
Build strong teams -culture
Leaders eat last - recommended book
Reduce friction
Motivation
Our fundamental job is to make people’s lives better
Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
Anything good for your heart is good for your brain.
Keeping ourselves happy and well,
Mindfulness!
Mindfulness!
Time!
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