POSIBLES TEMAS A DESARROLLAR EN NUESTROS TALLERES TANTO EN INGLÉS COMO EN CASTELLANO:

INTRODUCTION TO NLP AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

NLP origin and implications on our lives and education. Cooperative Learning key concepts and practical ideas to boost learning in an ecological environment. The Multiple Intelligences approach.

NLP:

is about enriching your own world-view. It encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and patterning. NLP describes the fundamental dynamics between mind, language and behaviour. NLP is a HOW TO technology. It tells and shows you HOW TO achieve what you want and HOW TO become the person you want to be.

Cooperative Learning:

is about learning together any subject area and any grade-level. The following concepts are present in any cooperative learning classroom: Positive Interdependence, Individual accountability, Equal participation, Simultaneous interaction and Interpersonal/Social Skills. An important step followed by teachers applying this approach is to assess how well the group is functioning based on the goals previously agreed on by students and teachers. Even if class time is limited, some time should be spent talking about how well the teams have done and which things could still be improved.

MI/Multiple Intelligences:

Dr. Gardner says that our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence. We esteem the highly articulate or logical people of our culture. However, Dr. Gardner says that we should also place equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live. The theory of multiple intelligences proposes a major transformation in the way our schools are run. It suggests that teachers be trained to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, Cooperative Learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection, and much more.

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Ryun

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OUR THINKING PROCESSES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ACQUIRING SOCIAL ROLES IN THE CLASSROOM

Sensory acuity, Learning styles (VAK), Visualization. How to work with Social Skills in the classroom.

NLP:

has a number of principles that are called presuppositions. For example: We process all information through our senses. Therefore, when education is a multi-sensory experience (by using all the representational systems), not only is it more interesting and more fun, but it also caters for every preference. NLP suggests that there is a link between the way our eyes move and the way we think. NLP understands language as a reflection of inner experience. Sensory-based language is a powerful tool in communicating and influencing.
Another presupposition is: People respond to their map of reality and not to reality itself. NLP is the art of changing our map for one that gives us more choice and submodalities offer tremendous opportunities for gaining control of our subjective experience because we can change them at any time for those that are more functional for us.

Social Roles:

How to work with Social Roles in the classroom:

• Set up a Social Skills Center
• Select a Skill each Week
• Introduce the Skill-of-the-Week
• Assign Rotating Roles and Develop Gambits
• Structure for Skill (use of Strategies)
• Model and Reinforce Skill
• Reflect on Skill

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”

Unknown

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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND TEAMBUILDING

Precision language, affirmations, rapport How to create enthusiasm, trust and mutual support to lead to more efficient academic work.

Effective communication:

How important is the way we speak to achieve effective communication? The words we use have tremendous influence on our response to them.

THE POSITIVE: The problem with language is that it brings things to our attention and the little word NOT is overlooked. Once we’ve heard the words, we can’t un-hear them therefore a positive message will be much more effective than a negative one.

NLP presupposition: the map becomes the territory. This is about the power of belief and about self-fulfilling prophecy. So whether you say to yourself you can or you can’t, you are right.

NLP presupposition: Rapport is the key to successful communication and to influence. One way excellent communicators acknowledge others and gain rapport is by matching body language and voice tone with the person they are with. They also use language from the same representational system back to them.

Teambuilding:

Teambuilding skills are essential if our students of today will work well in the world of tomorrow which will be marked by dramatic diversity.

There are five aims of teambuilding:

1. Getting acquainted
2. Team identity
3. Mutual support
4. Valuing differences
5. Developing synergy

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

Michael Jordan

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BELIEFS BEHIND OUR ACTIONS, SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES AND CLASSBUILDING

Become aware of our beliefs and find ways to get the goals wanted. The climate of the classroom changes radically if there are agreed class goals set.

Beliefs behind our actions:

What are beliefs? Beliefs answer the question WHY? Beliefs make sense of the world; they give coherence to our experience.
Some of our beliefs give us freedom, choice and open possibilities. Others may be disempowering, closing down choice and acting as if they were true, makes you and others miserable. The influence of our beliefs on our health is one of the clearest examples of the mind and body being one system. One example of this is the PLACEBO EFFECT. Belief in recovery is always useful and sometimes essential.

Belief change: When we change a belief we suggest you replace it with another belief that keeps the positive intention of the old one. (NLP Presupposition: All behavior has a positive intention). This presupposition is crucial if you hope to change someone else’s behavior. You need to know what the positive intention behind the behavior is and help them to find another way of satisfying it, before they will be able to get rid of the old behavior.

Outcomes: This is one of the pillars of NLP: knowing where you are going

• If you want to reach your goals, have some.
• Have classroom outcomes for yourself and your students. Share your outcomes with the students: knowing where they’re going helps them to learn.
• Help your students to set their own outcomes.

Classbuilding:

Classbuilding provides networking among all of the students in a class and creates a positive context within which teams can learn. It is important that students see themselves as part of a larger supportive group-the class-not just as members of one small team. There are a number of ways to improve class climate: CLASS RESTRUCTURING and CLASSBUILDING ACTIVITIES.

“Choice not chance determines destiny."

Anonymous

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LEVELS OF CHANGE, LEARNING AND GROWTH. THINKING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS.

The different levels people operate at and the resulting effects.
Learning to learn, Scientific process, Graphic organizers.

Perceptual positions:

NLP offers a clear technique for viewing things from at least three different points of view, called perceptual positions. In each position, we use our 5 representational channels to describe the situation fully.
We each tend to favour one of these positions. Good communicators have the ability to switch easily from one position to another as needed.

Logical levels:

Our experience occurs at different levels. The Logical Levels framework gives you a way of understanding:

• What kind of information you are dealing with.
• Where a problem originates.
• On what level the problem is being experienced or manifested.
• What the appropriate level is for intervention.

Thinking skills:

We will define educational success as the ability among students to generate, question, combine, categorize, re-categorize, synthesize, predict, compare, evaluate and apply information.

Types of thinking skills structures:

1. Generative, reflective
2. Relational thinking
3. Analytical thinking
4. Concept attainment, application
5. Categorizing
6. Question generation and response

“Nothing is more fundamental to solid educational development than a pure, uncontaminated curiosity”

Burton White

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