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Professor Deborah Eyre

www.highperfromancelearning.co.uk

Great Minds and How to

Grow Them

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A key breakthrough in our knowledge of the

brain in this century is that brain structure and

function is not fixed and unchangeable, and

not the same irrespective of context or culture.

It is, in fact, exquisitely plastic, mouldable by

experience throughout life. It is also

‘permeable’, responding to social attitudes and

expectations, as is shown by brain-imaging

studies of stereotype threat.

(Wraga et al., 2006).

We can grow our intelligence

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The formula for success

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Share your passions…

Share their passions….

Let them be bold…..

You can’t do it for them…..

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Motivation

Capability

People come in all personality types

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The harder path leads to the better view

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The key competencies to be developed

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How do High Performing Learners

think?

• Intellectual playfulness

• Flexible thinking

• Fluent thinking

• Originality

• Evolutionary or revolutionary thinking

Creating

• Meta-cognition

• Self-regulation

• Strategy planning

• Intellectual confidence

Meta-thinking

• Connection finding

• Generalisation

• Imagination

• ‘Big picture’ thinking

• Seeing alternative perspectives

• Abstraction

Linking

• Critical or logical thinking

• Precision

• Complex and multi-step problem solving

Analysing

• Automaticity

• Speed and accuracy

Realising

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Developing a strategy….

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Flexible Thinking

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Linking – connection finding

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How do High Performing Learners

behave?

• Collaborative

• Concerned for society

• Confident

Empathetic

• Enquiring

• Creative and enterprising

• Open-minded

• Risk-taking

Agile

• Practice

• Perseverance

• Resilience

Hardworking

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Chose a book and a VAA

Do you think Mr Darcy was open-minded?

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Empathy

Was Goldilocks

a good girl?

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Open-minded

Should we

reintroduce wolves

into the UK?

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Professor Deborah Eyre

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Encourage Curiosity

‘Why do you think it is like that’

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Teach technique

‘Try it like this’

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Technical Language

‘The word for that is’

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Find a space to

talk

‘What did you learn

at school today’

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Encourage when

things go wrong

‘It takes 10,000 hours

to make an expert’

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Remember – in the

story the tortoise

beats the hare

Not everyone shine’s early.

Some take longer to start to achieve

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Listen!

Listen!

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Remember - Parents are important

• Only 15% of time per day is spent in class

• What you do at home can make a real

difference

• Parents can build or undermine self- concept

and self –esteem

• Parenting to grow minds does not require you

to be Einstein

• Parents can influence aspiration motivation,

attitude

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