“Get it into the muscle and it resists forgetting”

“Get it into the muscle and it resists forgetting”

“Ten classroom stress • low self esteem • lack of self-belief • unpredictability • unacceptable levels of risk • feeling out of control • inability to make connections • lack of perceived value • negative or no feedback • poor communications • inappropriate learning diet”

“You only understand information relative to what you already understand”

“The life map that we put up on the classroom wall helped me see the point of what we were doing”

“I can remember the look of the classroom as though it were yesterday”

“all forest animals to this day remember where they were when Bambi’s mother was shot”

“most misbehaviour in classrooms is about movement” Professor Robert Sylvester

Put on your memory specs – S ee it P ersonalise it E xaggerate it C onnect it S hare it

motion and e-motion: the two forgotten secrets of learning

“I make a distinction between challenge and stress. Challenge helps learning. Stress arises when we experience helplessness and a loss of control. It ultimately stops any learning.”

“trying to learn without reviewing is like trying to fill a bath without putting the plug in” Mike Hughes

“development and learning is shaped more by feedback than by input or stimulus”

“You arethe lead learner in your own classroom”

“do your pupils have a clue as to why they are learning what they are learning – have you told them?”

“Brain research in time will have a profound effect on how we teach in schools” Rita Carter, author Mapping the Mind

“Stress in the classroom arises from threat – perceived or real”

“is this a thinking lesson Sir?”

“stress is useful when you a Zebra on the Savannah, its not so useful with the bottom set last two periods on a wet Friday in November”

“the greatest enemy is coverage. As long as you are determined to cover everything you guarantee that most kids are not going to understand” Professor Howard Gardner

“in a while I am going to ask you what you know about x, before I do that think of three things you already know about x … now, when you are ready describe your three things to your partner then see if together you can get five things.”

“teachers’ perceptions of a pupil’s intelligence strongly affect the pupil’s own view of his or her ability, and pupils’ opinions of peers are heavily influenced by such perceptions” Oxford Brookes University August 2000

“the basics of self-esteem: Belonging Aspiration Safety Identity (challenge) Success”

“I think everyone has genius within them. If every teacher in every school treated every child as a potential genius what do you think the effect would be? If you tell somebody they can do something, give them some belief their expectation goes up” David Hockney

“that worksheet changed my life!”

“we are none of us very good at sitting still for extended periods of time with our attentional systems all engaged by one set of stimuli”

“Teaching should be a profession in which creative and adventurous but hard-headed pioneers feel at home” Professor David Hargreaves, QCA

“to activate real understanding represent the key learning via different intelligences”

“For the children in your school this is not a rehearsal”

“you can change the seating arrangement in your classroom in the time it takes to play the ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’

“adults laugh up to twenty times a day, whilst young children laugh as much as three hundred times” The Owner’s Manual for the Brain

and yet … “65% of children polled said they would like to do well in school, 45% thought they would, And, 35% of their teachers thought they would” Professor John MacBeath

“Get it into the muscle and it resists forgetting”