5. Flow
For optimal learning, children need to be challenged at just the right level
Challenges
Excessive Optimal challenge
challenge leads to optimal
may cause learning
anxiety
Insufficient
challenge may
cause boredom
Skills
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi Professor at Claremont Graduate University since 1999
6. Four C’s
Connect Construct Contemplate Continue
7. Connect
• Connect to what the students know
already
• Tickle the students curiosity
8. Construct
• When you are constructing things with
your hands – you are simultaneously
constructing knowledge in your head
9. Contemplate
• Understanding the pattern –
understanding what happens “if”
• and sharing our new knowledge
with others is a very efficient way
of learning
10. Continue
• Putting newly acquired knowledge and
skills into the next assignment
• – we are constantly seeking flow – and
when we are in flow we are learning the
most!
