How Shame Undermines Learning to Read

This is an excerpt from the "Downward Spiral of Shame" segment of the Children of the Code's Chapter: The Brain's Challenge. (Available with it's accompanying videos on DVD at:http://www.childrenofthecode.org/DVD/index.htm) This video describes how shame, triggering during the confusion of code processing, splits attention and robs the brain of the capacity it needs to process through the confusion. Thus, how shame disables the learning that it's ashamed of. To see this in the context of how it's used on our site: http://www.learningstewards.org/mind-shame/ "we can no longer assume that what we think children should learn is more important than how well they can learn" Learning Stewards http://www.learningstewards.org