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- 1. Be A Study Neuro-Ninja – Yes You Can!
- 2. You are amazing. And yes you can do this. There is no doubt.
- 3. The human brain operates at 1 exaFLOP per second. A billion billion calculations per second.
- 4. The world’s biggest supercomputer takes 40 mins to process just 1 second of brain activity for just 1 percent of the brain.
- 5. So you have everything you could ever need at the top of your neck…
- 6. What’s stopping you? What has the biggest impact on available cognitive bandwidth?
- 7. Preparing for you’re A Levels is like preparing for a marathon... How can you become a study athlete?
- 8. Who am I? SENDCO MA in education Biology teacher Academy consultant 21st century parent Acting headteacher Specialist leader in education (SLE) Parent of 20 and 18 yo, 20 yo has ASD Deputy head with 25 years experience Studying neuroscience & psychology for 20 yrs Used these strategies 1:1 as a SENDCO with families
- 11. 8 Seminars. 1 Mission. Helping students & parents go from brain slaves to Neuro-Ninjas. 1. Well-Being Is A Skill 2 & 3.Being Anxiety Aware 1 & 2 4. Through Anxiety & Beyond 5. Brain Science of Meh 6. Tuning Into Your Mental Bandwidth 7. Your Brain On Other People 8 Way Of The Neuro-Ninja
- 12. You’re not just attending a seminar, you’re joining a movement…
- 13. How to respond to this material. It’s learning Jim, but not as we know it
- 14. We Support Professionals, Parents, Children & Young People to become Neuro-Ninjas Person-Centred Development Work
- 15. Going from a brain slave…
- 16. …a Neuro-Ninja
- 17. Our focus this evening: * How to build the best version of ourselves every day * What hits our cognitive bandwidth most * How to manage negative emotion & stress * The most effective ways to learn & remember.
- 18. What activities and habits are going to improve our cognitive bandwidth the most?
- 19. Key Ideas
- 20. Amazing news…our brains are plastic…throughout our lives…
- 21. We get to keep what we use…
- 22. Brain As A Projector, The Mind As The Image
- 23. 50% of how we feel everyday is down to what we’ve done in the last 24 hours!
- 24. We can build the best version of ourselves every day if we look after our brains and bodies…
- 26. If we don’t do them we go wonky…
- 27. Treat Well-Being Is A Skill
- 28. Rock 1: Sleep
- 29. Less than 6 hours sleep 30% less memory the next day More anxious the next day More emotional the next day More socially clumsy the next day Less immune cells the next day Higher blood pressure the next day Higher blood sugar the next day
- 30. Sleep Hygiene Protecting your sleep • regular bed and get up time. You manage the sleep environment to maximise sleep; • dark • cool • no distractions • no technology
- 31. The Very Bad News About Alcohol
- 32. Rock 2: Exercise
- 33. Improves concentration, memory and learning – Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)
- 35. Accelerator & brake pedal, two parts of our automatic nervous system
- 36. 8 of the Rocks Open the Parachute… Rock 1, Rock 4, Rock 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and Rock 12
- 37. Rock 6: Emotions, notice, accept & share.
- 38. Social Pain and Physical Pain registered in the same parts of the brain. Anterior Cingulate Cortex
- 39. Emotional pain and impact on cognition…. Imagine trying to do an exam with toothache…
- 40. Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me – NOT TRUE!!!
- 42. One small step – Emotions • Take 5 minutes Write down: • What happened • How you felt about it • What emotions were involved
- 43. Emotional Granularity is the skill where we learn to describe our emotional state to ourselves with accuracy.
- 44. Name it to tame it…
- 45. Let’s talk about stress and anxiety…
- 46. Living In The Age Of Uncertainty (21st century)
- 48. Amygdalae – Risk and Rewards Changing In The Environment
- 49. Amygdala is pre-loaded with some threats (spiders and snakes for example)
- 50. And yet, some people love snakes and spiders…
- 51. The Pre-Frontal Teaches Our Amygdala What Not To Be Frightened Of…
- 52. Year 6 Camp
- 53. Let’s Talk About Stress and The Two Halves Of Our Autonomic Nervous System
- 54. Accelerator & brake pedal, two parts of our automatic nervous system
- 55. They evolved to deal with a very different world…
- 58. You can end up with an enlarged and overactive amygdala which the PFC is unable to sooth…you can literally get locked up inside your head…
- 59. When we’re anxious or stressed the brain deploys cognitive distortions to get our attention… These are worse case scenarios; they’re not necessarily true…
- 62. Blame is a cognitive distortion…
- 63. Get kind and curious towards the issue… Ask: What kind of distortion is this? What is the evidence this thought is true?
- 65. And finally let’s talk about the Negative, Nasty Voice We All Have In Our Heads…
- 66. What’s going on when we beat ourselves up…or put ourselves under too much pressure
- 67. Circuits to keep us safe and away from pain and discomfort…
- 68. Circuits that want to learn and try new things…
- 69. They are in a tug of war…you get to decide which circuit wins.
- 70. Learning is struggle… Learning can involve pain…
- 71. My Maths Horror Story…
- 72. Life is pain… Pain of regret… or Pain of struggle…
- 73. Step One - Identify A Challenge
- 74. Step Two – Write A SMART GOAL for your Challenge Be specific about what you’re going to do and what success looks like
- 75. Introduce Desirable Difficulties to Challenge Anxiety Circuits
- 78. Plan Your Day. Every Day.
- 81. You want to learn or remember something? Repeat it.
- 82. If you don’t repeat, your brain will delete…
- 83. Why? 1 day later – they have forgotten 70%
- 84. Why is that?
- 85. When we’re learning something new action potentials move at 15 metres per seconds (quite slow)
- 86. Established skills the action potential moves at 150ms (10x faster)
- 87. Long Term Potentiation at a Synapse Synaptic Clefts: 40 nm Human Hair - 75000nm 2000x smaller than a human hair
- 88. Learning Involves Chemical Changes At Synapses Called Long Term Potentiation (LTP) Neurones That Fire Together, Wire Together. An action potential is basically an information packet It arrives at the synapse (gap) And is (sometimes) received by the receptors.
- 90. Information packet rings the doorbell but no-one answers Action Potential Fires But Doesn’t Change the synapse between 2 neurones
- 92. How can we ensure this information is ‘received’? Long Term Potentiation causes myelination
- 94. 25 mins focused study. Between 2x and 4x a day. Four Days A Week. One day at the weekend.
- 95. Self-Directed Study Slots – Deliberate Practice
- 97. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions Study Review – 25 mins Break – 5mins Past Paper for learning 25 mins Break 5 mins Flash Cards – 10 mins Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins Break – 5 mins Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins 3 Pomodoro Slots
- 98. Study Review: What did I learn today? How well have I remembered it?
- 99. Use A Study Review Sheet
- 100. Memories move when we sleep. The memories we touch more often get reinforced more often.
- 101. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions Study Review – 25 mins Break – 5mins Past Paper for learning 25 mins Break 5 mins Flash Cards – 10 mins Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins Break – 5 mins Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins 3 Pomodoro Slots
- 102. Past papers one of the most effective learning strategies.
- 103. Lots of students don’t use it as much as they should. Why?
- 104. The difficult emotions exam questions throw up.
- 105. How Can We Help Them To Embrace the Desirable Difficulties Of Past Paper Questions?
- 106. Emotionally Agile Learning – Expect the sting, do it anyway. I’m not doing this question for testing, I’m doing it for learning
- 107. The solution to fear is re-framing through curiosity…
- 108. SMILE at Past Paper Questions Surf emotions Mantras for Learning Interrogate like a detective Learn key points (distill) Engage key points Repeat.
- 109. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions Study Review – 25 mins Break – 5mins Past Paper for learning 25 mins Break 5 mins Flash Cards – 10 mins Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins Break – 5 mins Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins 3 Pomodoro Slots
- 110. Flash Cards to Build Schema
- 111. Moving ideas from working to long-term memory – from electrical encoding to chemical encoding.
- 112. If you have schema in your head, representations of key ideas, you can hang items from short term or working memory on it. Schema are neural structures of “wired and fired” neurons.
- 113. So your schema develop baubles and decorations of new knowledge
- 114. If you are learning something totally new with no schema, this is likely to happen to new knowledge.
- 115. Key Words Build Schema – Make sure you do at least 5 a day using Flash Cards
- 117. A process where green plants use sunlight energy to make glucose.
- 119. Sleep before and after learning is key to memory consolidation
- 120. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions Study Review – 25 mins Break – 5mins Past Paper for learning 25 mins Break 5 mins Flash Cards – 10 mins Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins Break – 5 mins Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins 3 Pomodoro Slots
- 123. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions Study Review – 25 mins Break – 5mins Past Paper for learning 25 mins Break 5 mins Flash Cards – 10 mins Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins Break – 5 mins Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins 3 Pomodoro Slots
- 124. Or Curious Questions: Why Don’t Plants Eat Crisps…
- 125. Inspiration Gets You Started…Habit Keeps You Going
- 126. Build a Wonder Wall In Your Room.
- 127. We Believe In You!
- 128. Your friends and families believe in you…
- 129. If you can believe in you…you are unstoppable.
- 130. We Believe In You. Your Parents & Carers Believe In You. When You Don’t Give Up…