Principle 10
Don't Panic!
Stay in the growth zone and out of the anxiety zone. We learn best if we are cool, calm and collected. Regulate our emotions to ensure our best performance and learning can happen.
Principle
Learners make best progress when they are in the growth zone.
Key language and behaviours
- Establish a culture where pupils understand and expect to be pushed out of their comfort zone as part of the learning process.
- Learners make best progress when they are in the growth zone.
- Regulate our emotions to ensure our best performance and learning can happen.
Questions
- Do pupils give up too easily? Is this an accepted behaviour?
- Are pupils empowered with strategies such as 'book/brain/buddy' to combat 'do nothing' as an option?
- Do teachers use 'Think Aloud' strategies to provide pupils with a model of how an experienced learner approaches new scenarios and show pupils that they can do this for themselves?
Embedding the Principles
- Stay in the growth zone and out of the anxiety zone.
- Regulate our emotions to ensure our best performance and learning can happen.
Prompts
- Cool, calm and collected.
- Growth zone.
- Anxiety zone.
Beliefs, values and behaviours
- Do pupils give up too easily?
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