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| 5 COGNITIVE TIPS FOR TEENS + ALBUMS I PLAY IN CLASS
“Every month or so I show my advisory period of 19 senior-year high schoolers this PowerPoint slide, irreverently titled “cognitive tips I made up,” and I’ve found that they connect both to the initiatives I put out there and to the overall project of reducing stress through awareness of one’s thought process and proactivity in one’s behaviors. I thought I’d share it and explain, as I do to my students, what exactly they mean:
I hope these seem helpful to someone looking to talk to their students about work ethic, cognitive awareness, and general strategies to manage stress.” | | 1 |  | Sampa the Great
The Return
“CHECK IN WITH YOURSELF” (aka “STEP OUTSIDE”)
The first tip urges students to step outside the force field of impulse and check in with how their decision-making has been making them feel lately. | | 2 |  | Res
How I Do
“GIVE YOURSELF THE OPTION”
The second tip reminds students that when they have even that infinitesimal spark in them to get something done they should prioritize action steps which will corral them more options in their personal, academic, and professional life—you simply do not gain from the act of choosing not to read a book. | | 3 |  | Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports
“DON’T FREAK OUT TOO MUCH” (aka “THE 4-7-8(-5) RULE”)
The third tip offers students the specific step of deep breathing when they feel like they’re freaking out past the subjective threshold of any helpfulness: in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8, five times. Then, check in with yourself. | | 4 |  | Nujabes
Metaphorical Music
“YOU CAN NEVER ENTIRELY OPT OUT OF MAKING A DECISION” (aka “STEP FORWARD”)
The fourth tip works to prevent students from getting that awful feeling when they are torn between doing something they need to do and not doing it, often experienced as the desire to opt out of making a decision—ending inevitably in an unproductive or harmful decision being made. Helping to instill awareness of this cognitive process opens space for students to more effectively take control of their relationship to work. | | 5 |  | Sade
Love Deluxe
“YOU HAVE TO PLAY BALL TO SOME EXTENT”
The fifth tip uses a sports metaphor to affirm for students that they are never entirely playing by the rules nor breaking them 100%, again developing awareness of the process of picking and choosing and helping to break down stultifying conceptual binaries for students when it comes to structures of authority and discipline, guiding them toward a more fully managed dynamic of rule-following and small-scale interventions. | |
robertsona
02.17.24 | the end | myri14
02.17.24 | Absolutely wonderful read. | robertsona
02.17.24 | That’s really kind of you to say, thanks—great taste, too | Egarran
02.17.24 | Yeah this is great, turn it into a book. | robertsona
02.17.24 | ty so much…perhaps… | anode
02.17.24 | i hope this is expressed in a more intuitive and less verbose way in the powerpoint 2,4 and 5 just seem like indoctrination prep
2 - you can definitely gain from choosing not to read a book. maybe going and having fun with your friends for example
4 - i agree with the premise here, especially considering how often ive come across people who experience let's say choice paralysis and procrastinate til the very last minute and/or just end up doing nothing. but why is this being applied to "take control of their relationship to work"? is this all about getting kids to complete their assignments? or is it general knowledge that is useful to disseminate in a widespread manner to youths?
5 - i guess this answers my question. idk man i really dont like the concept of rule following. you should do things because of the guidelines you create for yourself and not whats deemed by authority figures. obviously this requires you to have guidelines for morality and proper decision making. but thats what i would try to convey to students as opposed to blindly following authority figures because you need to get your homework done | robertsona
02.17.24 | I think 2/4/5 are relevant to the fact that they’re my English students (as well as my Advisory students) at a failing but rule-laden charter school in a bad neighborhood: there are tons of rules they have to follow (though very spotty consequences) and if they’re not reading the book they’re just sitting in class staring at something | robertsona
02.17.24 | I may not have framed it that way I guess but yah most of these kids have like 1.7 GPAs and go home and see bad things | anode
02.17.24 | oh then yeah i got you. guidelines for morality and proper decision making is definitely tough when you dont have a good environment to grow up in | robertsona
02.17.24 | One of the students who got lazily (adverb describing the school) switched out of my English class went to trial last Friday for gang assault and attempted robbery, for example. I guess I forget sometimes things aren’t always like that at schools I suppose | anode
02.17.24 | thats sad man idk how you do it. i guess i would channel my efforts into guiding them into simply graduating and possibly pursuing trade school | robertsona
02.17.24 | All these are in some sense ultimately oriented toward helping them graduate. My angle is just trying way more than other teachers to real talk them into awareness of their cognitive strategies outside the English classroom context, with varying results for sure, but it kind of does seem to come down to that: they fall into rather than make decisions, feel as if they are an entity that exists merely to oppose one called School, they suppress the tiny bit of latent desire they have to read even in class and choose-not-to-choose to stare at a wall for 45 minutes, they react incredibly strongly to each other, they make decisions that lose them points. Not all of them unilaterally but also over half my kids are failing :X | Minortimbo12
02.17.24 | Very good read! | Egarran
02.17.24 | Anode, what do you think about Jordan Peterson? | anode
02.18.24 | I used to like his lectures on YouTube cause I’m interested in psychology and he was a good orator but he’s obviously gone off the rails lately | parksungjoon
03.23.24 | i wish id met bobert before i became sput's infamous cavepainter | robertsona
03.23.24 | Whatchu mean.
Also I just want to celebrate as I did in the casual convo thread that of the 35 students of mine who took both “benchmark 1” (November) and “benchmark 2” (friday), both generated by the administrators of the school network in Brownsville I work for, gained 484 total points (the test is scored out of 100) from one to the other | parksungjoon
03.23.24 | gg pog champion |
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