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How ready are your students for learning? Do they feel safe and supported?
Listen to Episode 14 of THE THINKING EFFECT Podcast with Ortal Green and me for ideas about how to create a safe environment that supports learning.
To learn effectively, students need to feel safe and supported. COVID-related issues mean that it is even more important at the moment to assess how students feel in the classroom. It's equally important that leaders and educators safeguard their own wellbeing.
Jean Piaget, the renowned psychologist and his student, the Nobel nominee, Professor Reuven Feuerstein both saw cognition and emotion as two sides of the same coin. Without an emotional state that is settled and open, it is unlikely that the brain is ready to learn.
If students are insecure they are essentially in survival mode. They have three responses flight, fight or freeze. This flight or freezing may simply mean that they are cognitively unready to take in new information. They are focused on issues causing anxiety or withdrawal.
In this episode, Ortal Green and I discuss ways to create a classroom environment to ensure students are ready for learning.
Please write and tell ME how you are creating a positive and optimistic classroom atmosphere in your context: lili-annk116@gmail.com