Break the Rules

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Who is this man and what was he famous for?
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Transforming Learning Through Dynamic
PartnershipsBedford CPD Conference13 July 2009

• Roy Leighton Independent Thinking
• www.independentthinking.co.uk

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We should not shy away from welcoming and
acquiring the truth regardless of where it comes
from, even if it comes from distant races and
nations that are different from us. Nothing is
more important than seeking the truth except the
truth itself
Abu Yusef Al-Kindi (805-873)
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Al-Kindi The most learned man of his age,
unique among his contemporaries in the knowledge
of the totality of ancient scientists, embracing
logic, philosophy, geometry, mathematics, music
and astrology.
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Who is this man and what was he famous for?
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Abraham Maslow 1908 - 1970
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Clare W Graves 1914 - 1986
As he or she sets off on each quest, he
believes he will find the answer to his
existence, and as he settles into each nodal
state he is certain he has found it. Yet,
always to his surprise and ever to his dismay he
finds, at every stage, that the solution to
existence is not the solution he thinks he has
found. Every state he reaches leaves him
discontented and perplexed. It is simply that as
he solves one set of human problems, he finds a
new set in their place. The quest he finds is
never-ending.
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Do not try make complicated things simple, but do
not make simple things complicated. Clare W.
Graves
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ITS THE BRAIN, STUPID!!!!
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Spiral Dynamics
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We
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Me
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World view
Thinking and behaviour
Interdependent
Interconnected
Community
Enterprise
Order
Self
Tribal
Survival
Spiral Dynamics - Individual/Organisational
Evolutionary Model
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World view
Thinking and behaviour
Spiral Dynamics Stages and ages of Child
Development
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Is the government working towards greater dynamic
partnerships, collaboration and complexity in
education?
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World view
Thinking and behaviour
The QCA secondary curriculum model
How will you know when you are achieving your
aims?
Maintain, change or move on
Evaluate and record impact
(implement) Review progress
How will you organise learning?
Design (and implement)
Set clear goals (and gains)
What are you trying to achieve?
Record your starting point
Identify the problem
Curriculum and project management model based on
Spiral Dynamics
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There is no such thing as try. Do or do not!

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What is intelligence?
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WorkshopRoy Leighton

• Independent Thinking
• www.independentthinking.co.uk

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Touch?
Practical?
How do you want to work/learn?
Auditory?
Visual?
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Learning Tricks Four steps for a good memory 1
Passion 2 Structure/system 3 Imagination/creativ
ity 4 Review with frequent meditation
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What is intelligence?
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The work ethic has been replaced by the play ethic
Plearning to learn by play
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self
nature
number
body
word
people
picture
music
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KS1/2
KS3/4
Analytical/mathematical Musical Visual/spatcial Na
turalistic Verbal/linguistic Interpersonal Physica
l/practical Intrapersonal

• Number smart
• Music smart
• Picture smart
• Nature smart
• Word smart
• Self smart
• Body smart
• People smart

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It is not if but how you are smart.
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Cycle of evolution
Opportunity
Experience
Learning
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The Block to change is F.E.A.R.

• FALSE EXPECTATIONS APPEARING REAL

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There is no such thing as try. Do or do not!