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Pritesh Raichura Inattention, disruptions and distractions are threat to learning.

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Minimise disruptions & distractions
Rehearse attention behaviours
Expect & insist on excellent attention
Explain the advantages

Pritesh Raichura (In)attentiveness spreads between students in learning environments.

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If I still have your attention, let’s bring all that together.

1. Minimise distractions
2. Peak interest
3. Rehearse attention behaviours
4. Pitching the lesson
5. Expect attention
6. Attention switching
7. Payback

✅ Recognise attentiveness when it happens - make a big deal of it
✅ Narrate the pathway to success - make attentiveness a virtue
✅ Attribute good outcomes to behavioural causes like attention - “well done for getting that right… you must have been really paying attention”.

But it isn’t all down to the teacher. Schools must create a culture where attention is the norm.

How?

✅ regularly explain the importance of paying attention to students
✅ high senior leader presence
✅ simple steps teachers can take to reinforce attentive behaviours.

5. Expect attention

Teachers who allow themselves to be ignored signal that attention is not important.

Teachers who allow ‘low level’ talking during a silent task signal that attention is not important.

Teachers who allow off-task chat signal that attention is not important.

3. Rehearse attention behaviours

Students pay attention more if it becomes normal to do so. Creating ‘attention’ habits requires practice.

✅ Look at the person who is talking
✅ Ask if you don’t understand
✅ Underline unfamiliar words as you read a text…

So, paying attention is important because you will only think about what you pay attention to. Inattention is therefore a threat to learning.

But how do teachers get students to pay attention: to the work… to the curriculum… to them?!!!

Here are 7 things teachers can do.

1. Minimise distractions 🎉

We can pay attention to the four s’s:
✅ Settling: the way we start lessons
✅ Seating: where students are positioned
✅ Silence: don’t be afraid to insist on it for some tasks
✅ Social: making the classroom a learning space, not a social space.

I’ve been thinking hard about how we get students to think hard in lessons. 🤔

Thinking hard is important if students are to understand and remember what we want them to learn.

But students can only think about what they *pay attention* to.

A 🧵about attention.

Checks for Listening: 100% Participation bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/che… legendary from Pritesh Raichura

'The kinder we are, the more our perspective starts to change. When we feel good about the achievements of others, we’re less concerned about our own. Our view of success then also starts to change.' Kindness breeds kindness. Such important words from Ian Frost

Ian Frost DrRoeChemistry Great blog Ian…thanks for sharing 😀🙏

After the riots that swept across the Uk in 2011 I was invited to an audience with the Dalai Lama…

I asked him what we should do to help repair our fractured communities. He simply answered…

“Just keep being kind!” ❤️

Great read this morning! Thank you Ian Frost for brining such insight into kindness 🙌

It’s not about me but, WE…!

As people, leaders and practitioners we need to be mindful of the people we see, see them for who they are and where they are at! ❤️