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letting the fun in science out
teaching is a performance that fosters emotions
making the case for emotional engagement
emotions are important in their own right
What is the most important job of any teacher?
?
“Lectures which really teach will never be popular;lectures which are popular will never really teach.”
Michael Faraday
education entertainment
formal education
informal education
“In TV you can be as educational as you like, but if no-one is watching, you’ve achieved nothing.” Jonathan Sanderson TV producer
In the classroom you can be as educational as you like,but if no-one is paying attention,
you’ve achieved nothing.
What is the most important job of any teacher?
getting and keeping
attention
your recticular activating system guards your consciousness
relevance
relevance
emotions
“What information we select to attend to,and how intently, is still the most important question in learning”, Csikszentihalyi and Hermanson
“educators know much more about educating motivated students than they do about motivating them in the first place” George Lowenstein
emotional hooks are like velcro for our memories
we can no longer separate reason and emotion
handles and hooks
attention
handles (voluntary attention)
hooks (involuntary attention)
handles and hooks
attention
handles (voluntary attention)
hooks (involuntary attention)
internal handle
external handle
gumption strategy
hunting for hooks
What is a hook?
an emotionally engaging presentation technique
an emotionally engaging concept
hunting for hooks
the topicstuff
everyone is interested in
hunting for hooks
the topicstuff
everyone is interested in
external hooks
internal hooks
handles and hooks
attention
handles (voluntary attention)
hooks (involuntary attention)
internal handle
external handle
gumption strategy
internal hook
external hook
making science fun and easy?
you don’t have to be an actor – you can learn
these skills
playing with the wrapping - the “seductive detail effect”
some tools from the emotional engagement toolkit ...
modelling
volunteers
the most powerful tool... ever
uncertainty
teaching persona
anticipation
surprise
stories
exaggerate & edit your personality
"people are more interested in people than in any other single thing"
Fitzkee
how do you
really come
across to your
students?
vocal variety
pitchvolumequality
ratepause
you cannot not communicate
modelling your emotions
using volunteers
empowerment
"In other words, we're back to our usual alternatives:
Do we want suspense or surprise?"
Alfred Hitchcock
mystery evokes curiosity
“make them care, then make them wait”
frustration
boredomoptimum su
spenseamount of stalling
time period
conflict evokes uncertainty
tension evokes anticipation
creating surprise
stories are emotion simulators for our minds
“They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W Buechner
www.think-differently.co.uk