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Imagine that this computer didn't require cords or daily battery recharging, had a human interface, and functioned with visual and auditory programming.

Imagine that this computer had social programming and functioned with multi-sensory inputs i.e., visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, proprioceptive, olfactory, gustatory…

Imagine that this super computer had a build-in guidance system that could home in and track targets even when the targets were elusive and not visible at times.

Too Good to be True?

Even better, this computer is available for take home…and it processes even when you sleep! It this computer can output answers that are new, creative…leaps in associations.

And this computer learns, multi-tasks, automatically completes complex tasks, and completes background processes automatically.

Your Mind: Supercomputer Extraordinaire

Your mind is the super computer that we are describing. It is so much better than you believe, and much better when you believe. Your mental processing capacity is tremendous. Consider that all the intellectual prowess that you boast is only "surface scratching."

But, you have to know how to use this biological marvel of complexity and processing might.

Unfortunately, the brain's operator's manual is not published, and this "how-to" is not something that you learned in school.

In fact, if you focus on the narrow range of skills that comprises high-stakes test-taking, you will miss most of the extraordinary capabilities that you and your students possess.

Multi-Sensory Programming

The way that your super computing brain is programmed is through your senses. And, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, definitions, suggestions…plus remembered sounds, mental pictures…all learning…are registered by connections that are created.

Later, these connections become pathways. Still later, these pathways are collected, chunked, modularized, and automated.

When we say that all your intellectual power "just scratches the surface," we mean that much of the processing that this super computer brain accomplishes occurs under the surface, i.e., unconscious processing.

Sensory-Based Operating System

Your super computer operates on chemical and electrical energy, so some of the processes take longer than a silicon-based computer.

But, the processing power excels in depth, intricacy and associations to make up for what the processing lacks in speed.

The analogy is something like this. That speedy new computer that you just disposed your disposable income to purchase is like a third grade student playing a plastic recorder. The super computer that you manage in your brain and nervous system is like a philharmonic orchestra. The layer, texture, richness, flavor, timbre and color of your thinking out produces, out creates, out anticipates, out recognizes…out performs a slick new hardware device, hands-down.

Excess Capacity

Not only that, but your personal operating system contains several unique capacities. These are:

Dreaming

You can think, image, feel, sense and perceive in fact and fantasy

Incubation

You can set up a problem for analysis, ponder solutions for a time, then allow the process to continue on its own. The answer will "output itself" some time in the future

Creativity

Associations, connections, perceptions come together in novel, unique and "ah ha!" kinds of ways for fresh solutions

Unconscious Processes

Complex tasks, once learned, can be operated without much attention. Reaction time and skills are integrated. You can drive a car, listen to the radio, and scratch your ear at the same time…all without taking your eyes off the road or one hand off the steering wheel

Belief

You can stretch beyond obvious sensory information and connect with possibilities. You can also hold this confidence about the learning and success potentials of your students, and be the catalyst that brings these talents and abilities "to the fore" in your students' expressed and observed capacities

Self-Esteem

Related to the capacity for belief is the capacity to believe in yourself, and to treat yourself and others with kindness and respect.

Self-Actualization

The maturing of the innate desire and capacity for "mastery and achievement," your super computer is geared to assure your success in becoming "all that you can be"

Creative Imagination

Creative Imagination is the process of picturing, feeling, sensing a desired outcome as already happened, and trusting that your actions and reactions will conform to "make it so"

Integration: Putting all your Capacity into Action: Application and Performance

Sidebar

For an in depth exploration of the Application and Performance Model (AnP), refer to our article, Application and Performance: The "Flip Side" of Planning.

The integration of your brain's super computing abilities is your ability, without stress, to…

• Communicate with your students


• Store countless "chunks of relevant data about each student"


• Focus upon success (with Creative Imagination) for your students


• Focus upon success (with Creative Imagination) for yourself


• Believe in your students' capacity to learn and find boundless supporting evidence


• Believe in your ability to teach and demonstrate this capacity, minute by minute with your ideas, performance and artistry


• Say, do, move, gesture, signal, smile, reinforce and exhibit communications with your students with flawless timing


• Succeed as a teacher because your students succeed as learners, doers, creators, inventors, craftspersons, writers, orators, etc.

You can track all 22 of your students' on 139 high-stakes test objectives, without stress, integrate the connections and reinforcements in the proper sequence, and effortlessly achieve success.

And, you can do this while supporting your students as unique and precious, while coaching and mentoring their artistic and creative capacities, while enjoying the moments that you share with your students…but this is a story for another article.