Learning and the Brain, April 2013

 

Fieldston School Jazz Band page

http://tomchristensenmusic.com/

 

Todd Shy – Avenues School in NYC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Deli

 

Learning and the Brain Symposium
April 10, 2013
Mindsets, Motivation, and Resilience

Grush’s notes

 

Sian Beilock, University of Chicago (author Choke)

@sianbeilock

“Anxiety robs people of the mental resources to show what they know” (working memory/cognitive horsepower)

 

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Columbia University  (author:  Focus, Success), worked with Carol Dweck

@hghalvorson

Motivational Focus – Gain (Promotion) or Avoid Loss (Prevention)

We all do both, but have a dominant focus

What is your motivational language?

http://www.yourfocusdiagnostic.com/

 

Robert Brooks, Harvard Medical School (books on resiliency, parenting)

@drrobertbrooks

Mindsets: the assumptions and expectations we have for ourselves and others that guide our behavior

Article on website – “You Get what You Expect”

 

 

Paul Tough, writer (New Yorker, NY times) focused on education, poverty, parenting

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiousity, and the Hidden Power of Character 

@paultough

• Toxic stress antidote is a strong relationship with a parent
• “What if the secret to success is failure?” article in New Yorker

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

• Our country has an adversity gap.  Poverty has too much.  Affluence has too little.
• Some adversity is good for kids growing up, to experience and learn how to manage failure

• I.S. 318 (MS) in NYC – chess team wins national HS chess championship.
• Elizabeth Spiegel, teacher.  Teaching students how to manage failure

http://lizzyknowsall.blogspot.com/

http://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_creativity_of_chess_a_conversation_with_elizabeth_spiegel

 

 

Edward M Hallowell, Child/Adult Psychiatrist (author:  Shine; CrazyBusy;  Delivered from Distraction)

http://www.drhallowell.com/crazy-busy/

@drhallowell

Has ADD and dyslexia

Attended Exidor and Harvard

• Scores do not predict what kind of life you will have.  Not trophies, championships, etc.
• What does tell the story are the attitudes you develop growing up.

 

Dr. Joshua M. Aronson, Psychologist, NYU

Improving Academic Achievement: Impact of Psychological Factors on Education

• Intelligence
• Motivation
• Intellectual Curiosity

Each is fragile and suffer in stressful situations

The desire to not look stupid makes us stupid

How to be task centered, not worry centered?