Building learning power!

REFLECTION

Planning: Thinking about where you are going, what you will need, what obstacles you need to over come.

Revising: Monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating as you go along being flexible and alive to unforeseen opportunities.

Distilling: Mulling over your learning pulling out essential features for the future; being your own learning coach.

Meta learning: thinking of yourself as a growing developing learner; learning to talk about the processes of learning.

 

 

 

 

RESOURCEFULNESS

Questioning: being curious wanting; to get to the bottom of things.

Making links: being alert to connections between different events experiences or areas of learning; looking for the bigger picture using analogies.

Imagining: Using sensory, rehearsal studio, of the mind; playing with possibilities; sensitivity to the intuitive gleams and glimmerings of creativity.

Reasoning:  Knowing when and how to think rigorously and to critique other people arguments organizing information systematically.

Capitalissing: Drawing on all kinds of external resources to support learning: books, the internet, libraries, emails, other people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECIPROCITY

Interdependence: Not losing yourself in company having the courage of your convictions knowing what balance of sociable and solitary suits you best.

Collaborating: Being a good team learner knowing how to draw from the strengths of a group and also how to help build that strength

Empathy and listening: Being ready to put yourself in other people’s shoes to enrich your own learning perspectives

Imitation: Being open to other people’s smart ways of thinking and learning picking the values and habits that develop your own learning.

 

 

 

 

 

RESILIENCE

Absorption: Being able to lose yourself in learning; becoming rapt or engrossed.

Perseverance: Keeping going in the face of difficulties.

Managing Distractions: Knowing how to deal withy external distractions.

Attentive Noticing: Learning is more than thinking, it involves immersing your self in patterns, detail and nuances of what is going on.

 

 

 

 

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On December 8, 2005 CR Johnson suffered severe head trauma in a freak accident at Brighton Resort in Utah. Johnson went into a coma after colliding with another skier while filming for a Bigger Picture film called Show-n-Prove. Within 10 days, Johnson had woken up from his coma, and by the 26th day he was able to sit up in bed, talk in a whisper, and eat solid food. He quickly began walking, and after 34 days in the hospital he returned home to Truckee, California. By the end of March, Johnson was back on the snow at Squaw.

 

CR Johnsons determination pulled him through an extermly difficult time. He had Resillance so even when the going got tough he carried on. He had reflection to look back at what he has done and set himself goals to achive.