How to engage everyone in this Ethos stuff?

Attachment
Agency
Autonomy

Affirmation Affirm their value / role

Agency support Develop their self-belief
Autonomy support Make it relevant to
teachers, thru a structure
to make sense of it
Key Ideas

There is no such thing as an unmotivated pupil

- just a de-motivating learning ethos?

Teachers need to realise their power over pupils

- the ethos is not a neutral backdrop.

Teachers who don’t think that ethos is

important should be replaced by computers?
 THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING FRAME

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 Our key MOTIVES (i)
Intimacy

Chaos control

Our 2 greatest fears

Abandonment
the basic structure ii
ATTACHMENT ‘I belong’

AUTONOMY
‘I want to’

Low agency AGENCY ‘I can’

Overwhelmed ( heteronomy)

detached
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THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING FRAME

 Attachment
Over-dependency
Autonomy

the the
over- engaged
dependent learner
learner
Low
agency Agency
the the
overwhelmed oppositional
learner learner

distorted
Overwhelmed autonomy

Low
attachment
the basic structure
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poor
control control

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THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING FRAME

 The 4 Drivers

Engagement Structure Stimulation Feedback

achievable information re
limits,
interest in you goals, progress,,
accountability,
acceptance, interest, stress personal
choice,
meaning, success,
responsiveness, trust
purpose, make feel
mutuality, participation
challenge, responsible
valuing you autonomy
curiosity, for success
relevance,
 AFFIRMATION
engagement feedback Autonomy
support

EMPOWERMENT
stimulation
structure
Classroom Ethos
 affirmation

control empowerment

rejection
 What are schools about?

Compliance Attachment
Agency
Autonomy

Coercion Conflict
 ATTACHMENT Affirmation

AUTONOMY
Autonomy
support

Low AGENCY
agency Empowerment

Low attachment
 ATTACHMENT Affirmation
AUTONOMY
Autonomy
The protective The motivating support
ethos ethos
the the
over-dependent engaged
learner learner
Low agency AGENCY
the the
Disempowerment Empowerment
overwhelmed over-autonomous
learner learner
The destructive The exposing
ethos ethos

Low attachment
Rejection
 Impact

Cuddled Dazzled

Muzzled Frazzled

How do you feel?

 The importance of ethos
Engaging attitudes
self determined teachers >
autonomy supportive classrooms>
engaged learners
Key - the conditions that
affect teachers’ motivation
Motivated by fear to share power
of losing power seek cooperation

rejecting
Parents who find our
teaching staff rude should
see the
head teacher