Flow Team

Flow:

To be in flow means to be completely involved or focused on the task at hand. But to be in flow the task must create of sense of being outside reality, of inner clarity, tranquility, timelessness, and produce intrinsic rewards for a person. For me, flow is being outside in nature. I feel completely in flow when I’m in that natural world, amongst the trees and the animals. Flow is not only a happy place, but a place where you never want to leave and can’t wait to come back to. I think that as teachers, we all want students to be in flow in our classrooms, but how often does that happen. In order for students to be in flow in our classrooms we need to make learning a situation that ignites curiosity and sparks creativity, because when students are engaged, interested, and able to take what they’ve learned and make it their own they’re in flow.

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How does it feel to be in flow?

1. Completely involved, focused, concentrating

2. Sense of being outside reality

3. Greater inner clarity- knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going

4. Knowing the activity is doable- that the skills are adequate and neither anxious or bored

5. Sense of serenity, tranquility- no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego

6. Timelessness- focused on the present, don’t notice how time is passing

7. Intrinsic motivation- whatever produces flow becomes its own reward