letting the fun in science out

teaching is a performance that fosters emotions

making the case for emotional engagement

emotions are important in their own right

What is the most important job of any teacher?

?

“Lectures which really teach will never be popular;lectures which are popular will never really teach.”

Michael Faraday

education entertainment

formal education

informal education

“In TV you can be as educational as you like, but if no-one is watching, you’ve achieved nothing.” Jonathan Sanderson TV producer

In the classroom you can be as educational as you like,but if no-one is paying attention,

you’ve achieved nothing.

What is the most important job of any teacher?

getting and keeping

attention

your recticular activating system guards your consciousness

relevance

relevance

emotions

“What information we select to attend to,and how intently, is still the most important question in learning”, Csikszentihalyi and Hermanson

“educators know much more about educating motivated students than they do about motivating them in the first place” George Lowenstein

emotional hooks are like velcro for our memories

we can no longer separate reason and emotion

handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

internal handle

external handle

gumption strategy

hunting for hooks

What is a hook?

an emotionally engaging presentation technique

an emotionally engaging concept

hunting for hooks

the topicstuff

everyone is interested in

hunting for hooks

the topicstuff

everyone is interested in

external hooks

internal hooks

handles and hooks

attention

handles (voluntary attention)

hooks (involuntary attention)

internal handle

external handle

gumption strategy

internal hook

external hook

making science fun and easy?

you don’t have to be an actor – you can learn

these skills

playing with the wrapping - the “seductive detail effect”

some tools from the emotional engagement toolkit ...

modelling

volunteers

the most powerful tool... ever

uncertainty

teaching persona

anticipation

surprise

stories

exaggerate & edit your personality

"people are more interested in people than in any other single thing"

Fitzkee

how do you

really come

across to your

students?

vocal variety

pitchvolumequality

ratepause

you cannot not communicate

modelling your emotions

using volunteers

empowerment

"In other words, we're back to our usual alternatives:

Do we want suspense or surprise?"

Alfred Hitchcock

mystery evokes curiosity

“make them care, then make them wait”

frustration

boredomoptimum su

spenseamount of stalling

time period

conflict evokes uncertainty

tension evokes anticipation

creating surprise

stories are emotion simulators for our minds

“They may forget what you said,

but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W Buechner

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