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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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