In many ways, teachers are 'orchestrators of attention'.
When we do this well, not only do we help students learn but we level the playing field...
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What we attend to is what we learn about.
Attention is the currency of the classroom, the gatekeeper of learning.
As such, it should be a core consideration in any act of teaching. The two-fold challenge of attention in school is that:
1/ Our attentional bandwidth is limited
We can only ever attend to a very few number of things at any one time. Multi-tasking is a myth (it’s really just task switching: an inefficient way to learn).