Summer COnference July 2015
Chasing effortless excellence: from choirboy to midlands rock god to NQT
Aims
- How flow psychology can help teachers and learners?
- Creating the autotelic/autonomous learner
- Ideas for cultivating excellence within the context of linear A-level
- Excellence without casualties
What is Flow?
Watch the video below and consider the following questions:
- When was the last time you felt, 'In the Zone'?
- What were you doing?
- What did it feel like?
- There are clear goals every step of the way.
- There is immediate feedback to one's action.
- There is a balance between challenges and skills. (Csikszentmihalyi, 2006)
Research question
How do learners themselves characterise their experiences of 'Flow' and how can these findings inform new practises in teaching and learning?
Research Methodology
RESEARCH PHASES
- Flow awareness sessions and focus groups
- Survey Monkey: tell us about your experiences
- Follow up interviews
- Feedback to emCETT
- Improve practise?!?
findings
Apply these findings to your own contexts. In subject groups add suggestions to the A3 sheet in the following categories:
- Teaching and Lesson Design
- Curriculum Planning
- Opportunities for TAPOUT
A lEvel Toolbox?
The Academy... in desiring to produce precious fruit, denies itself those which slower ripening would have made tasty Theodore Gericault
- Celebrate failure meaningfully e.g. Gibbs Reflective Cycle and celebrate success in the same spirit
- Find your own flow-zone. integrate more activities into your teaching that help you to experience flow
- Live for the question!
- Make time for students to study and reflect quietly without distraction
- Exploratory projects
- If industry/real-world isn't appropriate then applied 'finished' outcomes that students can use to demonstrate learning over time
- Joined up lessons with a narrative arc
- Partnership with vocational equivalents
- Over-learning
- Use of chance, games and working against the clock
Feedback
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