1. Dare to be Challenged? Sydenham School High Performance Learning Deliberate Practice Project

2. Deliberate Practice

3. Practice Deliberate Practice
How do we get there?
Practice Deliberate Practice
The only way to achieve this goal is through consistent and long term practice. However we don’t just want any type of practice it needs to be Deliberate practice!

4. What is Deliberate Practice and why is it so important?
The evidence that deliberate practice makes a significant difference in your learning comes from a range of scientific fields, including neuroscience and psychology.
Working Memory
Long Term Memory

5. Working Memory
Working memory can generally hold between five and nine items (or chunks) of information at any one time.
Information comes into the working from the world around through your senses.
It processes the information and uses it to perform tasks. – E.G – Solve a maths problem or talk to another person.
The working memory can only hold onto information for a short period of time, after that it either forgets it or transfers it to the long term memory.

6. Long Term Memory
Your long term memory is where information can be stored for long periods of time.
One of the issues can be retrieving information from the long term memory.
We can improve this by chunking information together. These chunks are called Schemas

7. What is the difference between practice and deliberate practice?
Is all practice of the same value?

8. Player B Micheal Jordan Player A Chicago Bulls Mr Freaks NBA All star
“Player A shoots 50 practice shots, Player B also shoots 50. Player A retrieves his own shots, dribbles leisurely, does a bit of Maths and then throws again. Player B has a colleague who retrieves the ball after each attempt. The colleague keeps a record of shots made. If the shot is missed the colleague records whether the miss was short, long, left or right and the shooter reviews the results after every 10 minutes of practice. To characterize their hour of practice as equal would hardly be accurate. Assuming this is typical of their practice routine and they are equally skilled at the start, which would you predict would be the better shooter after only 100 hours of practice?”
Player B
Micheal Jordan
Chicago Bulls
NBA All star
Player A
Mr Freaks
Head of Maths
Sydenham School

9. Deliberate practice is when practice is broken down into smaller parts and each part is made better.
1.    You must get out of your comfort zone, constantly attempting things that are just out of reach.
2.     You need to establish a (reachable) specific goal.
3.     You must be maximally focused on improvement during practice. It must be intense, uninterrupted and repetitive (‘drilling’). Not particularly pleasant, but highly rewarding.
4.     You must receive immediate feedback on your performance. Without it, you can’t figure out what you need to modify or how close you are to achieving your specific goal. - This is where you parents/ guardians come in.

10. The ‘deliberate practice mindset’
You must reject three prevailing myths:
1.     Your abilities are limited by genetics. GROWTH MINDSET – research has shown that intelligence is not fixed
2.     If you do something for long enough you’ll get better. – Repeating and practicing mistakes can actually re-enforce these behaviours
3.     All it takes to improve is to increase your effort levels. – you must also have quality feedback and self analysis in order to adjust your practice and improve your performance.

11. Why do we do the things we do? What is it that drives our behaviours?
Ways you could support building internal motivation include:
Learning the task together
Be interested and excited by their learning.
It is better to be interested in the process rather than praising outcomes, or your praise starts to be the thing they are working towards.

12. Extrinsic motivation occurs when we are motivated to perform a behaviour or engage in an activity to earn a reward or avoid punishment.
Studying to get a good grade
Doing something for external praise
Participating in a sport to win awards
Intrinsic motivation involves engaging in a behaviour because it is personally rewarding; essentially, performing an activity for its own sake rather than the desire for some external reward.
Participating in a sport because you find the activity enjoyable
Solving a word puzzle because you find the challenge fun and exciting
Playing a game because you find it exciting
Both External and Internal motivations can be helpful but as a parent if you can find a way to help your daughter build intrinsic motivation, this will have the biggest effect on her performance.
Ways you could support this include:
Learning the task together
Be interested and excited by their learning.
It is better to be interested in the process rather than praising outcomes, or your praise starts to be the thing they are working towards.

13. Growth Mindsets

14. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Research Tells us…….
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Our intelligence isn’t fixed, it can change.
The brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Learning new things helps neurons in the brain to grow new connections.
People with a growth mindset believe that they can learn, change, and develop needed skills. They are better equipped to handle setbacks, and know that hard work can help them accomplish their goals.
People with a fixed mindset believe that talent alone creates success. These people find failure and setbacks hard and are not willing to work hard to get better.
Most people are a mix of both and their mindset can change depending on the task.

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16. Do It Now
Has your score changed? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10

17. This is where you need to be!
It is one thing however saying it on a quiz and another thing truly believing it when things get tough.

20. Mindsets approach to learning challenge.
Initial Desire
Evaluating the situation
Dealing with setbacks
Attitude to Challenge
Attitude to Effort
Attitude to Criticism
Success of others
Predicted result