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A great teacher builds positive relationships with students to help them discover and unleash their strengths, skills and potential.
Teachers connect, engage, challenge and recognise their students. They tap into their interests and create opportunities that help students know where they are at and where they are going next. Great teachers support them in the different ways they could get there.
We do all of this in whatever subject area we are teaching. Because at its core, teaching is about people, connections and discoveries.
These posts are here to support any teacher to build positive relationships, connect with students and engage them. If we can do that, then we can make the biggest impact possible.
There's you and seven billion other people around the world. There is you and the world you see and experience. Everything you hear, think about and choose to notice is in your world and really only understood by you. That's one world. Then there are the seven billion other worlds "out there" in all those other people's heads. …
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When creating this blog, and working out what its purpose is, it came down to helping people upgrade their abilities in thinking. A run down of what Upgrade Think Learn is about is here, here or here. The hope is that through better understanding how you think, you can then improve in whatever area or skill …
This post builds on our the previous post about mindsets - specifically growth mindsets. Head back, peruse, enjoy and discover a little bit about how you can upgrade yourself, your brain and your world. Let's be clear - this won't involve Bill Gates or Microsoft. (However, I always need inspiration in my journey of upgrading my …
Imagine a future not too far from now: you the need to improve or upgrade some ability or knowledge. You head down to the local Google, Apple or Elon Musk Upgrading Station and select an upgrade for your brain (think the scene from the Matrix where Keanu Reeves learns kung-fu). Whilst I would love to tell you …