Letting the fun in science out. teaching is a performance that fosters emotions.

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letting the fun in science out

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teaching is a performance that fosters emotions

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making the case for emotional engagement

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emotions are important in their own right

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What is the most important job of any teacher?

?

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“Lectures which really teach will never be popular;lectures which are popular will never really teach.”

Michael Faraday

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education entertainment

formal education

informal education

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“In TV you can be as educational as you like, but if no-one is watching, you’ve achieved nothing.” Jonathan Sanderson TV producer

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In the classroom you can be as educational as you like,but if no-one is paying attention,

you’ve achieved nothing.

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What is the most important job of any teacher?

getting and keeping

attention

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your recticular activating system guards your consciousness

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relevance

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relevance

emotions

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“What information we select to attend to,and how intently, is still the most important question in learning”, Csikszentihalyi and Hermanson

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“educators know much more about educating motivated students than they do about motivating them in the first place” George Lowenstein

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emotional hooks are like velcro for our memories

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we can no longer separate reason and emotion

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handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

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handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

internal handle

external handle

gumption strategy

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hunting for hooks

What is a hook?

an emotionally engaging presentation technique

an emotionally engaging concept

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hunting for hooks

the topicstuff

everyone is interested in

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hunting for hooks

the topicstuff

everyone is interested in

external hooks

internal hooks

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handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

internal handle

external handle

gumption strategy

internal hook

external hook

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making science fun and easy?

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you don’t have to be an actor – you can learn

these skills

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playing with the wrapping - the “seductive detail effect”

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some tools from the emotional engagement toolkit ...

modelling

volunteers

the most powerful tool... ever

uncertainty

teaching persona

anticipation

surprise

stories

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exaggerate & edit your personality

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"people are more interested in people than in any other single thing"

Fitzkee

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how do you

really come

across to your

students?

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vocal variety

pitchvolumequality

ratepause

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you cannot not communicate

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modelling your emotions

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using volunteers

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empowerment

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"In other words, we're back to our usual alternatives:

Do we want suspense or surprise?"

Alfred Hitchcock

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mystery evokes curiosity

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“make them care, then make them wait”

frustration

boredomoptimum su

spenseamount of stalling

time period

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conflict evokes uncertainty

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tension evokes anticipation

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creating surprise

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stories are emotion simulators for our minds

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“They may forget what you said,

but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W Buechner

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