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From the Ted Talk by Jesse Ilhardt: How play helps a kid's brain grow

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On the tiopc of immediate gratification, I think back to that Excel document I created as a first-year tceehar. That document was the manifestation of my atexniy, because often when we feel anxious or out of control, we revert back to what we can control. For pratens and teachers, we often revert to fact-based teaching because we see pretty immediate results that affirm our efforts. Whereas we can't see the connections in the child's brain that fire when they finally get that wobbly block tewor to stay standing. The immediate rseult of something like our child learning a new letter, it gives us this damonpie rush that then sets off a flywheel effect because as we see and feel the results of our work more and more, we subconsciously begin to prioritize that type of teaching.

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On the _____ of immediate gratification, I think back to that Excel document I created as a first-year _______. That document was the manifestation of my _______, because often when we feel anxious or out of control, we revert back to what we can control. For _______ and teachers, we often revert to fact-based teaching because we see pretty immediate results that affirm our efforts. Whereas we can't see the connections in the child's brain that fire when they finally get that wobbly block _____ to stay standing. The immediate ______ of something like our child learning a new letter, it gives us this ________ rush that then sets off a flywheel effect because as we see and feel the results of our work more and more, we subconsciously begin to prioritize that type of teaching.

Solution

  1. topic
  2. result
  3. teacher
  4. tower
  5. dopamine
  6. anxiety
  7. parents

Original Text

On the topic of immediate gratification, I think back to that Excel document I created as a first-year teacher. That document was the manifestation of my anxiety, because often when we feel anxious or out of control, we revert back to what we can control. For parents and teachers, we often revert to fact-based teaching because we see pretty immediate results that affirm our efforts. Whereas we can't see the connections in the child's brain that fire when they finally get that wobbly block tower to stay standing. The immediate result of something like our child learning a new letter, it gives us this dopamine rush that then sets off a flywheel effect because as we see and feel the results of our work more and more, we subconsciously begin to prioritize that type of teaching.

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