7. Preparing for you’re A
Levels is like preparing for a
marathon...
How can you become a
study athlete?
8. Who am I?
SENDCO
MA in education
Biology teacher
Academy consultant
21st century parent
Acting headteacher
Specialist leader in education (SLE)
Parent of 20 and 18 yo, 20 yo has ASD
Deputy head with 25 years experience
Studying neuroscience & psychology for 20 yrs
Used these strategies 1:1 as a SENDCO with families
11. 8 Seminars.
1 Mission.
Helping students & parents go from
brain slaves to Neuro-Ninjas.
1. Well-Being Is A Skill
2 & 3.Being Anxiety Aware 1 & 2
4. Through Anxiety & Beyond
5. Brain Science of Meh
6. Tuning Into Your Mental Bandwidth
7. Your Brain On Other People
8 Way Of The Neuro-Ninja
17. Our focus this evening:
* How to build the best version of ourselves every day
* What hits our cognitive bandwidth most
* How to manage negative emotion & stress
* The most effective ways to learn & remember.
18. What activities and habits are going to
improve our cognitive bandwidth the most?
29. Less than 6 hours sleep
30% less memory the next day
More anxious the next day
More emotional the next day
More socially clumsy the next day
Less immune cells the next day
Higher blood pressure the next day
Higher blood sugar the next day
30. Sleep Hygiene
Protecting your sleep
• regular bed and get up time.
You manage the sleep
environment to maximise sleep;
• dark
• cool
• no distractions
• no technology
58. You can end up with an
enlarged and overactive
amygdala which the PFC is
unable to sooth…you can
literally get locked up
inside your head…
59. When we’re anxious or
stressed the brain
deploys cognitive
distortions to get our
attention…
These are worse case
scenarios; they’re not
necessarily true…
87. Long Term Potentiation
at a Synapse
Synaptic Clefts: 40 nm
Human Hair - 75000nm
2000x smaller than a human hair
88. Learning Involves Chemical Changes At Synapses Called Long Term
Potentiation (LTP)
Neurones That Fire Together, Wire Together.
An action potential is basically an
information packet
It arrives at the
synapse (gap)
And is (sometimes)
received by the receptors.
97. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions
Study Review – 25 mins
Break – 5mins
Past Paper for learning 25 mins
Break 5 mins
Flash Cards – 10 mins
Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins
Break – 5 mins
Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins
3 Pomodoro Slots
100. Memories move when we sleep. The memories we touch more often get reinforced more
often.
101. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions
Study Review – 25 mins
Break – 5mins
Past Paper for learning 25 mins
Break 5 mins
Flash Cards – 10 mins
Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins
Break – 5 mins
Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins
3 Pomodoro Slots
108. SMILE at Past Paper
Questions
Surf emotions
Mantras for Learning
Interrogate like a
detective
Learn key points
(distill)
Engage key points
Repeat.
109. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions
Study Review – 25 mins
Break – 5mins
Past Paper for learning 25 mins
Break 5 mins
Flash Cards – 10 mins
Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins
Break – 5 mins
Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins
3 Pomodoro Slots
111. Moving ideas from working to long-term memory –
from electrical encoding to chemical encoding.
112. If you have schema in your
head, representations of key
ideas, you can hang items
from short term or working
memory on it.
Schema are neural
structures of “wired and
fired” neurons.
120. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions
Study Review – 25 mins
Break – 5mins
Past Paper for learning 25 mins
Break 5 mins
Flash Cards – 10 mins
Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins
Break – 5 mins
Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins
3 Pomodoro Slots
123. Menu for Deliberate Practice Sessions
Study Review – 25 mins
Break – 5mins
Past Paper for learning 25 mins
Break 5 mins
Flash Cards – 10 mins
Knowledge Maps / Retrieval Activity – 15 mins
Break – 5 mins
Summarize a video or piece of content – 25 mins
3 Pomodoro Slots