TOD with Nathan Wallis 27/4/18

Term 2 - Admin Notes in admin minutes


The thing that uses your brain more than anything else is conversation.


What is it that you do that engages more of the brain than anything else?
Face to face interaction.


They call the 1990s the decade of the brain - brain scanning technology.
300 years of information in one decade - “How brainy you are” has way less to do with your genes and more to do with the data you gather in first 1000 days of your life.
  • If it was genetic - name a family that has more than one genius???
  • It’s generally a good thing to be the first born
  • There are genes for hair colour, eye colour - there are no specific genes that are responsible for intelligence
  • Scientists can predict your income by the amount of words your primary caregiver speaks to you in your first 1000 days
  • A parent stay at home for the first year of life - biggest step towards resiliency factors
Dyadic Relationships
  • Not always possible to develop dyadic relationships with your students in one year
  • About ¼ of the room had a “Miss Honey” teacher that they have remembered all of their life
  • The quality of your relationship with your students determines how much your students will gain from their time with you.
  • It is not content knowledge - it is the quality of the relationship


The brain works from the bottom to the top


Brains 1-3
  • Dogs have these brains
  • These will just roll out with your genes


Brain 1
  • Survival
  • Brainstem
  • (First 6 months of life)


Brain 2
  • Movement brain
  • (Between 6 and 18 months)


Brain 3 - feeling brain
  • Mammal brain
  • Limbic system
  • Emotions
  • Nurturing brain
  • (From around 18 months - 7 year)
  • This brain is turned on at ‘terrible 2s’


Brain 4 - thinking brain
  • Frontal cortex ( brain that only humans have, reading, writing, empathy, goal setting, everything that makes you intelligent)
  • This brain is optional is there an elaboration for this? How is it ‘optional’?
  • Interaction with the environment within the first 1000 days
  • You have an ‘adult brain’ when you are mid to late 20s (26 as an around about average)
  • There is lots of complexity around the average age - gender, first born and much more
  • (8 years - 26 years)


  • Reducing social psychological morbidity during adolescence


The Developing Brain
‘Intelligence is your ability to solve problems’
Brain 1 and Brain 4 - complicated relationship.
They operate on a set of scales - as one increases, the other declines and vice versa
To be really using your cortex, your brainstem needs to be CALM
The power of a relationship - you can already have the student engaged in their learning before you open your mouth. Your presence can make them feel calm, they know what to expect, you’re predictable, they know you and they feel safe.


Self regulation is what you do to calm yourself down so you can show self control
Self control is the number one factor in success

Neuroplasticity (After lunch)
‘Can we fix it? Yes we can’ Bob the Builder
5 years ago (maybe even 3) we didn’t have as much neuroplasticity


4 things that reduced neuroplasticity:
  • Caffeine
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Sugar


The 2 substances that can raise your IQ
  • Caffeine
  • Nicotine
Four parts to the brain
Learning, Emotions, Movement, Safety


Brainstem (Safety)
  • Karakia
  • Kaumatua
  • Touch (Mirimiri)
  • Sensory Pathways
  • Predicatibility (karaka)
  • Autonomy
  • Water & Kai
  • Dyadic Relationship (VITAL)


Experience Expectant
Babies are born unable to see further than 30 cm in front of it and in black and white.
As soon as a child is out of the womb light hits the retina.
As soon as they hit 2 they have full adult visibility.  
Your brain is experience expectant of having a dyadic relationship.


Movement
  • Rhythmic patterning - you would have taught your baby this by doing things like rocking them, winding the baby, on your knee and shaking your knee. If you are traumatised enough you are likely to do a rhythmic pattern like rocking.
  • Routine
  • Ritual
  • Waiata
  • Motivation
  • Kapa Haka
  • Movement Autonomy
  • Corpus Callosum


Zone of proximal development - the difference between what you can do by yourself and what you can do with a more able body.

Create an environment for risk taking

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