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Double post today cuz these doodles are time specific to whatever just happened on twitter
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not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker
I was in martial arts for years, and in particular I kinda specialized in working with the younger kids.
The two Big Rules when instructing younger students was- 1. Compliment before Critique 2. Don’t say ‘but’, say ‘now’
Praise kids on what they get right first, especially if they are struggling. Like OP said, kids don’t like to engage with people who make them feel bad. They need encouragement when learning new things.
Number two boils down to this. If you tell a kid a compliment, then say “but you need to fix this”, that ‘but’ completely negates your compliment. It’s gone. It was canceled out like adding a negative to a positive. Using “hey, that punch is looking great, now let’s focus on your stance” doesn’t verbally cancel out the progress they’ve made. It’s like they’ve checked off something on their list of stuff to work on.
Wording can absolutely make or break a child’s motivation and interest.
Rebloggling as it’s relevant in a Medical Education context
Honestly I use all of these to teach vet students too. I think people in general respond better to positivity in teaching. Not coddling, but acknowledging when a student got part way to the right answer, or had a good thought process, is something I’ve found keeps students engaged and builds confidence, which encourages them to keep going instead of shutting down and just “getting through” a lab or a rotation
guys it is NOT funny that the queen died because the IRA painted a tunnel on the side of a cliff and ran into it like it was a real tunnel and she tried to chase them and slammed into the cliff so hard she made a queen-shaped imprint and it is NOT okay to joke about it EVEN IF she made a really loud boing sound effect when she did it
It's Wet Beast Wednesday
cmon kid... we've gotta go save Wet Beast Wednesday.... TWO!
…I legit forgot today was Thursday and I thought it was still Wednesday.
SOMEONE help me find that galaxy brain meme with star trek vs. star wars where it goes from "star wars is better" to "star trek is better" to "both have valuable things to offer and cannot be compared" and the ends with "actually star trek is better" because that is THE mood right now
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star trek heritage post (December 17th, 2019)
Trying to explain anything when you have adhd
It's the 'hear me out' that gets me
What i like even more is Jerma actually does have adhd and will explain it sometimes on stream
imagine being the prosecution and getting that email, downloading the files, and absolutely losing your shit. i would’ve set my office on fire in celebration. i would’ve showed up to court with balloons.
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you wanna end my reign of terror so bad it makes you look stupid