1. The Orphaned Affective Domain: Our Educational Heritage of Teaching to Half a Brain Henderson State University February 24, 2016 Ed Nuhfer, Retired Director of Faculty Development California State University at Channel Islands enuhfer@earthlink.edu

2. The brain learns by building and stabilizing neural connections (see Leamnson, 1999). Practices that clearly promote building and stabilization make sense.

3. Cognitive Domain The product of the brain we think of commonly as the substance of learning in formal education such as knowledge, concepts, skills, evaluative thinking based on evidence.

4. Bloom's Taxonomy Of the Cognitive Domain

5. Affective domain… The product of the brain that produces the sense of feelings and emotions that are "complex but internally consistent qualities of character and conscience." (Krathwohl, Bloom, and Masia, 1964, p.7). Qualities of thought dominated by affective qualities are many and include attitudes, preferences, self- awareness, biases, ethics, self-esteem, enthusiasm, and emotional intelligence.

6. "The Visitor" 2007

8. All learning produces complex interconnected affective and cognitive synaptic “wiring.” The "wiring" seems fractal in all parts of the brain.

9. All learning produces complex interconnected affective and cognitive synaptic “wiring.” The "wiring" seems fractal in all parts of the brain. For our purpose, consider just the nature of this wiring and nature of the operation of a whole brain, rather than consider the parts.

10. Count off (A) or (B) A’s: sit for a minute and recall a worst or most unsatisfying teaching experience you have had. It can be you as a teacher or you as a student. B’s: sit for a minute and recall a best or most satisfying teaching experience you have had. It can be you as a teacher or you as a student.

11. In the next minute, consider why this was the experience on which you chose to focus

12. Next in Groups of Four – Ideally Two A’s and Two B’s Gather at a Poster

13. Your poster - your learning experiences A.What descriptive terms express your feelings during your recall? B.What descriptive terms express your feelings during your recall?

14. From: Petersen, S.E., Fox, P.T., Posner, M.I., Mintun, M. & Raichle, M.E. (1989) Positron emission tomographic studies of the processing of single words, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 153-170.

20. The Listening Brain 2009

22. What If We Taught Only to the Cognitive Domain? How might that look?

23. Let's go to the movies! But first, an Assignment Is there awareness of speaking as "touching?" Daniel Bernard Roumain - we truly "hear" a moment after. See if you can find where true hearing occurs in this clip.

24. Charles Dickens, "Hard Times" 1994

26. Krathwohl/Bloom Taxonomy Of the Affective Domain

27. Taxonomy of the Affective Domain

28. "There would have been good reason to expect that, as the new century started, the expanding brain sciences would make emotion part of their agenda….But that…never came to pass. …Twentieth Century science…moved emotion back into the brain, but relegated it to the lower neural strata associated with ancestors whom no one worshipped. In the end, not only was emotion not rational, even studying it was probably not rational." Damasio, 1999, p. 39

29. Number of Citations on "Emotion Regulation" From Gross, 2007, Figure P1

31. What’s a “fractal?” Give us the PG-rated version, please.

33. Taxonomy of the Affective Domain

34. Taxonomies That Appear to Map to One Another

38. An illustration of the power of generators Ambady’s and Rosenthal’s (1993) "thin slices" studies determined that students arrive at ratings for teachers after watching 30 seconds of silent content-free video that are highly consistent (r = 0.76) with end-of-semester ratings.

39. Generators are Fundamental Time & attention to good starts saves many times those hours later

40. Temporal Sequence of Forming a Generator Before cognitive awareness… Before articulation is possible… Before any action… Feeling comes first Connect first with the feeling brain

41. The Power of Initial Commitment From The Talent Code: based on McPherson, G. (2001). Council for Res. In Music Ed. & (2005). Psyc. Of Music

42. Good Popular and Practical Reads

43. Critical Generators in Learning First days of classes First moments with a professional Syllabi

44. Three Points to Take Away: All cognitive learning begins with affective engagement How we feel has everything to do with our succeeding The affective domain can learn, just as can the cognitive.

46. Movie! With Assignment When does true hearing occur? When does willingness to pay attention take place? We are witnessing the formation of a new generator here—the proverbial teachable moment. What actions of the instructor might have thrown away the opportunity?

47. "Freedom Writers" 2006

49. Assignment When does true hearing occur? When does willingness to pay attention take place? We are witnessing the formation of a new generator here—the proverbial teachable moment. What actions of the instructor might have thrown away the opportunity?

50. James Rhem "The affective field"

54. All learning produces complex interconnected affective and cognitive synaptic “wiring.” (Note- this is just "the wiring"…what happens when it comes alive?)

55. From: Petersen, S.E., Fox, P.T., Posner, M.I., Mintun, M. & Raichle, M.E. (1989) Positron emission tomographic studies of the processing of single words, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 153-170.

56. Why fractals? The neural networks that we develop through learning are fractal. Fractal qualities permeate all we think, feel, and do. Teaching is an exercise in stimulating growth of fractal neural networks in others and often helping others build better replacement networks. Evaluation and assessment are really exercises in trying to characterize fractal neural networks.

58. Quiz time! How many letters are in the English alphabet? How many words can those letters produce? How many ideas can be expressed by those words? How many stories are possible? Might these be infinite in a single discipline? Might these be infinite in a single discipline described in a single language? Can all human knowledge/experience be accurately described by words?