65% of trauma is sexual abuse or domestic violence.
90’s - age of the brain. first brain scans tracking development of brains
If you really want to influence chn brains is Early childhood.
Brainwave - body responsible for disseminating current info to those working with anyone involved with brain development.
the human brain is wired to interact with the environment in the first 1000 days of existence - impact - this means that the first 1000 days of life builds the brain you are going to need for the rest of your life. 30% of genes set. Intelligence is not. The human brain is built to be folded by genes and by the environment.
Cannot spoil a baby. The more you indulge in the first 18 months the more successful.
Paying a parent to stay at home for the first year of life has more impact than $50 000 spend on flash secondary school
having the same teacher for 2 years is a positive resiliency step
11yrs is the most susceptible age for trauma
you are unable to undo the risk factors - instead of dwelling on the negative, introduce resilience factors - a 2nd language, play a musical instrument, have the same teacher 2-3 years, maori students learning te reo-2 steps as also validating own culture. Family geo-line, structuring family relationships, role models and identifying people important in their lives
Movement - staying still uses half their frontal cortex
Brain number 4 -Frontal cortex that makes us humans - Dog has 1-3 brain functions.
Reading - can the dog do it?
Frontal cortex is the brain that gets your s**t together
Human brains show in a brain scan that they have reached maturity/adulthood at average 27, gender dependent. first born girl matures at 18, 2nd born boy at 32. risk factors
Mature between 18-32
Nathan Wallis - childcare - humans are designed to have one relationship. Early childcare multiple relationships delays social skills.
Sleep anxiety - leaving to cry - 40mins in anxious state. As an adult takes 40mins to regulate vs 40sec for baby picked up
Zone of proximal development - by yourself to %20, with support to %40 . unable to take beyond, Outside zone - failure, low self-esteem, learned helplessness
Streaming - Mixed ability groups - partner with someone in close proximity
7 genders - not 2
Neuro sequential model
- Survival
- movement - 1-2 reptilian brain
- mammal brain - 1-3 dog survival movement and emotion. Feeling brain
- Thinking and Learning - the only way to access the frontal cortex if through the 1-3 brains moves from the bottom to the top
humans survival method is attachment - not movement as a horse
so a baby in the first six months attachment and finding the diad - sequential building a house
2nd six months movement
2nd year - emotion comes from brain number 3 ages 2-8 . Have to learn control, this comes from Cortex brain no 4. Learn this from parents - 7-27yrs
Teenagers-generally frontal brain shuts down and forces them back into emotional brain
2-7 free play innovation creative environments. NO advantage to developing early cognitive patterns.
Attainment levels - 8 year old that learnt to read at 3 same attainment as 8 year old who learnt at 7
Early cognitive attainment plateaus by 8
Creativity- the way that we think - is the ability to problem solve. Creativity between 2-7 increases intelligence as a teenager. Also resilience. Creative child will keep generating solutions
playing is crucial to development. Under the age of 7 doesn’t matter so much about how clever child is BUT how clever they FEEL. - in the feeling brain
Research - improving the transition by sir peter gluckman - 2 pg summary at start - “we are a punitive environment’ research shows we need to invest in emotional development of our 2-7 year olds
play is unstructured, purposeless and no outcome
- significance of the first 1000 days
- 4 different brains inside your head
- 3. relationship between the thinking cortical and the survival brain. Dispositions, personalities
operates like a scale
no competition between survival and learning. Survival brain takes precedence. Hunger, sleep deprived brain stem takes over. which means scared kids can’t read! Thats why we need mindfulness to clam that brainstem and engage the cortex. Mindfulness is a ritualised way of bringing you into the present moment. The emotional brain will relive the trauma no matter how illogical it is. Reliving past trauma or anticipating new trauma.
Brain Plasticity- always there, allowing brain to adapt and learn - natural condition of the brain
Bullying - giving them a practising and caring role. a chance to practise empathy and they will learn it.
4 things that lower your neuro plasticity
- caffeine
- alcohol
- sugar
- tobacco
it depends how it interacts with your genes and environment - genomes
People over 65 who have 3 cups of coffee a day slows dementia
Only 2 things that can make you more intelligent, stimulate your cognitive development - caffeine and nicotine. Nicotine patches can stimulant intelligence for elderly.
leading course of death is heart disease - sugar is the most damaging when it interacts with genome - no receptors in our brains for sugar, only 300 years old. Alcohol tobacco and caffeine have been around for 1000s of years.
More socially connected you are the more you develop neuro plasticity. Endomorphemes, exercise etc
How to meet the needs of each brain
1.
why you can’t learn if you are with a teacher that is not predictable, fires up all the time.
importance of having a child for 2-3years. Number 1 influence is relationships, not skill, content knowledge of working with a 7 year old or 10 year old
Dyadic Relationship - never to late. to grow from a loving relationship
Predictability
Touch
2.
Rhythmic Patterning
Kids with a damaged or no rhythmic pattern are the ones most likely to be the ones rocking, a steady rhythmic pattern is what calms them. Chewing gum.
Getting movement and rhythmic patterns into the classroom - every 25mins. metronome in the background. Mozart music very quietly in the background can have an effect, and nursery rhymes have same pattern
What is good for Maori is good for everybody - kura kaupapa model
Positive disposition if you are a kiwi. Maori kids are not shielded from the negative disposition, criminals, druggies, thugs, etc
Culture does matter, being silent does not make you neutral. it makes you part of the problem. To be a part of the solution you only have to try - kia ora. you start to undo the stereotype. the older and whiter and greyer you are the more power you have. Validating their culture
Less transitions there are, the more positive disposition, - This will allow the frontal cortex to flourish
Book - the boy who was raised as a dog. by Bruce
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