I experienced… the unhealthy shame that exists in our culture of medicine — where I felt alone, isolated, not feeling the healthy kind of shame that you feel, because you can’t talk about it with your colleagues.
Tag Archives | mind-shame
N.Y. Times: Doctors Suffer From Shame Disabled Learning Too
Until we attend to the culture of shame that surrounds learning errors, we will be only nipping at the edges of one of the greatest threats to our children’s education.
MUTISM & MIND-SHAME
Refusing to speak or speaking in a whisper spares the child from the possible humiliation or embarrassment of saying the “wrong” thing.
Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?
Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.
Research: Investigating the Literacy – Mental Health Relationship
Research: mental health effects of feeling chronically improficient in the skill areas most important to success in school
Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter
“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.
Major Update to Children of the Code – Two New Video Chapters
The Children of the Code site has been upgraded to much higher quality videos that can be run on your tablets, smartphones, etc. ++ Two new chapters: “What is Reading?” and “Paradigm Inertia”
Neuroscience: Neural Correlates of Math Anxiety
Since posting my previous piece (When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning) earlier this week, another blog focused on medical neuroscience posted a great overview of math anxiety called “Brain Markers of Math Anxiety“. The post refers to a study “The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Math Anxiety” that has identified the neural correlates of math anxiety for [...]
When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning
What and how students learn can have toxic effects on how well they learn thereafter. It’s vitally important that educators understand this.
Help Us Reduce Reading Shame!
We are raising funds to give our DVD sets to the teachers and literacy volunteers that need it the most but can afford it the least. Help us!
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