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Directed Attention Fatigue?
Do you find yourself or your students (or your own children!), experiencing mental fatigue?
Is this term, DAF, familiar to you? I came across it and immediately resonated with it so thought to share here.
Directed Attention Fatigue is a state of mental exhaustion resulting from the overuse of the brain's ability to maintain focus by suppressing distractions.
Teachers' Main Distractions:
- Constant Behaviour Monitoring
- Digital Notifications/Devices
- Interruptions and Rapid Task Switching
- StressHigh Emotional/Behavioural Demands
Students' Main Distractions:
- Irrelevant Noise/ChatterManaging
- Micro-Noises and Loud Environments
- Visual Clutter/Peer Movement
- Peer Interactions and Social Stress
Good News: Nature Restores 😉
- Restore your attention via 'soft fascination'. Examples of this in the open air, on your school grounds perhaps, include natural elements such as clouds moving, leaves rustling, or birdsong or birds flying by, insects creeping, that engage attention effortlessly, a concept known as 'soft fascination'. This allows the directed attention (the mental energy used for concentration and filtering distractions) to rest and replenish, reducing cognitive fatigue.
Have you experienced this 🐞?
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