Ian Taylor: Keynote speaker

I listened to an excellent speaker on Friday. Ideas that made me think...

- If someone asked him to do something he thought I can't see why not

- Innovative while we do the work using a No. 8 wire approach

- We are on an unbroken line to the world

- Creating environment that remove boundaries

- Attitudes - power of thinking

- It's not in our culture to write

How can we use these ideas to create excitement and innovation schools and classrooms?

Currently, we are providing learners with opportunities to lead events that they wish to organise (Spelling Bee, Pet Day, School Lunches). Now we need to continue to drive learners to innovate to make our community a better place. Ensuring that all the learners have the opportunity to be a part of this is also important.

Karen Boyes Webinar

I have just listened to a webinar about Mindset and Motivation. Here are the things that I took away from this.
 
If you help a butterfly out of its cocoon it will die.

I think the challenge how do we move learners from their comfort zone into their learning zone?  

Karen suggests the following ideas :
= Explicitly teaching the learning pit
= Using the learning depositions to teach the strategies to get out of the pit.
= Reframing mistakes as learning experiences and sharing the different types of mistakes
 
= Having a safe place to take risk

=Encourage responsible risk taking by talking with learners about the avoidance strategies they use when learning get tough and having clear goals with learners
= Celebrating the process as well as the outcome of learning and look for growth of learner explicitly.

Ideas that I am going to try:

- When learners are sharing their ideas, I am going to only thank them only for their idea and continue to ask for ideas until all learners have offered ideas.
- Be explicit about the strategies (learning dispositions) you can use to break through the wall in the pit of learning
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Reinforce the above statement using walking or biking your bike as a reference,