The Problem-Solving Brain
"A person's ability to respond successfully to challenges and to learn from such experiences."
What is intelligence?
The biologically-based drive that leads to mastery learning.
What is task motivation?
The three parts of well-being.
What are mind, brain, and relationships?
The belief that one feels belonging, respect, and cared for by teachers and peers.
What is school connectedness?
The Circle of Courage needs.
What are Belonging, Mastery, Independence, and Generosity?
The brain-based protocol for solving problems
What is CLEAR - challenges, logic, emotion, action, result?
Another phrase for "mastery mentality".
What is a growth mindset?
The most basic truth about children.
What is they require love and affection to learn and grow?
The number of individuals needed to create high achievement.
What is 3 individuals?
The solution to creating a positive school climate.
What is belonging - where all students and staff join together in the pursuit of Mastery?
The idea that our brains remember unfinished tasks and problems that haven't been solved.
What is the Zeigarnik effect?
Ways teachers prevent students from failing.
What are give frequent feedback and encouragement and individualizing the curriculum to their needs?
Said, "We distort what we hear to fit what we fear."
Who is Daniel Siegel?
The skills teachers need to be able to turn problems into opportunities.
What are skills to disengage from conflict and connect with reluctant students?
Vulnerability to peer influence, or being easily misled.
What is lack of independence?
Two kinds of events that the brain retains in long-term memory.
What are repetition and emotionally charged experiences?
Another way of saying the "sweet spot" of learning.
What is "Just Manageable Difficulties"?
Describes how hurt children re-enact their trauma by pushing our buttons.
What is the conflict cycle?
The reason successful students from alternative schools dropped out of regular schools.
What is poor treatment?
Fostering generosity by strengthening empathy and concern for others addresses this negative behavior pattern.
What is delinquent pride, or bullying?
Extinguished by "lessons [that] are pelted at us from on high, like hail stones on flowers."
What is the love of learning?
Another word to describe "self organized learning environments"
What is "play"?
Where traumatic memories are stored.
What is the limbic area - or seat of emotion?
How learners are able to push the limits of their abilities.
What is the zone of proximal development, or mentors who provide models, challenge, and support?
The Circle of Courage need focused on in this chapter.
What is Mastery?