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Mind matters
how UWCSEA is meeting learners where they are Decades ago, it was impossible to imagine that teachers could tailor their lessons to different types of students; but today, it is an established and necessary practice. Thanks to the generosity of a long-terrm supporter, UWCSEA has embarked on an innovative, three-year project to develop the capacity of teachers to recognise different kinds of minds and to help build classroom-based strategies to support their students to engage with their learning in ways best suited to each individual. Rebecca Butterworth, High School Principal at Dover, started this work in 2019/2020, in consultation with education expert, Syliva Leck, from Foundations for Learning, based in Zurich. Syliva’s method is neurodevelopmental, asserting that learning challenges arise from the way our brains work differently. As a result, some of the behaviour changes we see in young people as learners may be a manifestation of how
