Unit 2: Building Classroom Communities

Proust was a neuroscientist

Marcel Proust• Neuroscience of

memory

Virginia Woolf• The divided self

Gardner M.I.

Sternberg M.I.

Logical-mathematical Intelligence

Linguistic Intelligence

CreativeAnalyticalPractical

Sais-tu ce qui me fascine

dans les sciences ? C'est que

j'y trouve la poésie suprême :

dans les mathématiques, le

grisant vertige des nombres ;

avec l'astronomie,

l'énigmatique murmure de

l'univers (Amin Maalouf)

How am I going to control the behavior of my students?

How am I going to create a community in my classroom?

• Intrinsic motivation (students and teacher)

• Less Problem Behaviours• Metacognitive Discussions ?

Manipulation Education

Belonging

Ideology

Belonging

Learning

Manipulation

Belonging

Ideology

Common Ground Games• Groups of 4, randomly generated

• Uncommon commonalities.

• Three commonalities that other groups do not have.

• You have 3 minutes to find someone who has three things in common with you

very introvert

Very Extrovert

introvertextrovert

both

low anger-management

average anger-management

good anger-management

Sharing Circles

DOPAMINE Happiness, Euphoria

Gratitude Circle

Forgiveness

TIMING

Problems: cliques, no interaction between students

Common Ground Games

Problems: stress, low energy, managing emotions

Sharing Circles

Reading Activity

http://louairahal.net/GroupMind/index.html

communications

•spoken words

• tone of voice

•body language

Non-verbal

Verbal

contradictions

Caring verbally

Careless non-verbally

Other examples?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4gmdl3zNQ&feature=player_detailpage

conflicts

• Blaming one another, saying ‘you’ all the time

• Using ‘I’ messages: When you said this, ‘I’ felt. When you do this, it makes me feel

Exercises