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Positive Pedagogues

April 24, 2019April 11, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments Barbara Fredrickson, motivation, positive psychology, positivity ratio

Actively cultivating positive emotions is essential in a school environment. We need happiness to go viral.

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Performance Psychology

Are You Fit For Teaching?

April 15, 2019April 5, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments antifragile, careers advice, mental fitness, Nassim Taleb, stress, wellbeing, workload

To be a teacher you need to be mentally fit. Of course, being physically fit helps but this is a

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Psychology Teaching and Learning

Teachers Who Flow

April 11, 2019April 5, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments automatic, autotelic personalities, challenge, flow, happiness, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Owen Schaffer, state of being

When was the last time you were in the flow?

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Psychology Teaching and Learning

Children Need Willpower

April 10, 2019April 5, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments delay ability, emotions, future consequences, gratification, self-control, self-regulation, sitzfleisch, temptations, Walter Mischel, willpower

We all need to harness willpower but it’s something that needs teaching and training.

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Psychology

The Stockdale Paradox

February 28, 2019February 15, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments adversity, brutal facts, Jim Collins, Jim Stockdale, mindset, resilience

You might be having a tough time working where you are. It could be the sort of toxic hell you’d

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Behaviour Psychology

The Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments bandit, BBC, GCHQ, helpless, intelligence, JCB, phenotypes, Professor Carlo M. Cipolla, stupidity

What is humanity’s greatest existential threat?

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Character Education Psychology

The Gratitude Attitude

January 10, 2019December 10, 2018 johndabell 0 Comments accounatbility, Dr Kerry Howells, funding pressures, Giacomo Bono, gratitude, Jeffrey J. Froh, positive energy, Rita Pierson, Robert Emmons

How strong is your gratitude muscle?

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Psychology

Is Your School Full Of Psychopaths?

December 29, 2018November 30, 2018 johndabell 0 Comments Behaviour, character, personality types, psychology, psychopaths, Robert Hare

Probably. Well, if not full, there will certainly be a few. The standard screening test for potential psychopaths is the

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Behaviour Problem Solving Psychology

Learning Needs To Be Tense

December 23, 2018November 30, 2018 johndabell 0 Comments Andrew Elliot, arm folding, arms, Behaviour, non-verbal behaviour, proprioceptive cues, Ron Friedman, University of Rochester

Can folding our arms help us persist with problems?

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Psychology Teaching and Learning

Thorndike’s Law of Effect

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 johndabell 0 Comments B.F. Skinner, Edward Lee Thorndike, Law of Effect, operant conditioning, positive reinforcement, psychology

One of the first principles associated with learning and behaviour was developed by Edward Lee Thorndike and this has become known

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