| Newsletter Link http://www.ab01.info/site/MNHNewsletter01.pdf Bernadette Tynan 
Bernadette Tynan BA (Hons), MA (London), PGCE (Cambridge), MEd (Cambridge), Adv. Dip. Child Development. Bernadette Tynan was educated at London and Cambridge Universities and is the founder and president of Beautiful Minds, a registered UK charity that is dedicated to funding research into the best ways to develop the natural gifts in every child. In addition, the charity website provides space for young talent from different backgrounds to be showcased and recognized via its national competitions. Bernadette’s work has taken her world wide including China, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK. The author of the international best seller, Your Child Can Think Like a Genius – How to unlock the gifts in every child, her work has been translated into several languages including Chinese, Spanish and Polish. Dubbed ‘Genius at Work’ by the Australian Financial Review Boss Magazine, and ‘Genius Coach’ by New Zealand TV, Bernadette has featured on television documentaries and chat shows, radio call ins for parents, and in magazine articles world wide. Bernadette Tynan has researched, created and developed learning strategies specifically focusing upon creating tailor made learning systems that unlock individual creativity and ability, and which are designed for both children and adults alike. These include Thumbprint Learning ® © TM, a uniquely trade marked and registered design for life and learning in 21C. Bernadette Tynan is also the creator of two further designs to develop different strengths in learning. The first E+M+C2 = SMART ® © TM empowers people with knowledge and strategies to make learning fun as well as effective, tailored to their precise needs. The Curiosity Tree ® © TM develops confidence in a person’s critical and creative thinking skills and is again designed for both children and adults, so that parents as well as children can benefit. Bernadette Tynan’s focus is upon tailor-made and life long learning systems that work with each individual’s strengths and that can grow with them to accommodate change and new directions throughout life. Bernadette’s work in different countries, as well as the UK, has lead to an interest in concepts of intelligence, and the identification of gifts and talents, in children across different cultural contexts. Dispelling stereotypes that hold people back in successful learning, Bernadette Tynan equips children from all walks of life with strategies they can use throughout life and in any field they may wish to follow. Within life and work in today’s global knowledge economy, education and learning new skills opens up doors to a wider choice of career paths and interests. Bernadette’s is dedicated to empowering people with knowledge to make the best of all learning opportunities, and to developing individual creativity and ability, - both of which are buzz words in today’s education and work place. No one has a monopoly on great ideas, the trick is learning how to believe in and develop ideas when you get them, and that goes for children as well as adults! Precisely because her work grasps and deals with many of today’s issues in life and learning, Bernadette Tynan has captured the interest of both parenting as well as business magazines, and is invited to speak at a number of international forums. Bernadette has consulted for education ministries, and given individual and specialist workshops and seminars world wide for school leaders, teachers, adults, parents and their children. For example: Birmingham International Conference Centre for ministers, business and leaders in education, on developing creative and innovative thinking, and how to develop effective management and support for individual talent; Singapore International Expo Centre, Children Asia Literary Conference, to speak on the link between education, knowledge and creativity; UN Peace training centre, Burg Schlaining, Austria: monitoring and assessment in intercultural education in Europe; Business Design Centre, London: dual exceptionality, working with children with both Special Needs and high levels of ability; DTI and Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Mission: developing Anglo-Chinese partnerships in learning and education to develop creative and innovative platforms for learning. Bernadette Tynan is former Senior Lecturer at the Research Centre for Able Children at what is now the Westminster Institute of Education and was formerly based in Westminster College, Oxford. The research centre focused upon gifted and talented education and developed the first nationwide MA and post graduate certificate programme in this field for teaching professionals. This was funded by a multimillion pound government grant in conjunction with the Department for Education and Skills (DFES). A member of the core team of specialist Senior Lecturers in the research centre, Bernadette Tynan lectured on the following areas that formed the foundation of the taught Masters programme: metacognition, higher order thinking, dual exceptionality in giftedness, what we know from psychology, child development and neuroscience to date about concepts of giftedness, acceleration and enrichment programmes, accelerated learning, strengths and weaknesses of different assessments and tests for ability, their limits and applications, Multiple Intelligences and IQ, and the socio-cultural implications of developing positive frameworks of identification and support programmes for gifted children from different backgrounds. Her work in the research centre involved her in the first government roll out, development and implementation of training in gifted education throughout the UK, working with schools from early years through to primary and secondary age ranges.
Bernadette Tynan is Consultant Author and Series Editor for Letts Educational Star Series, a division of Granada Media. The purpose and design of the Star Series is to provide a practical working structure for schools to develop individual creativity and critical thinking skills. Bernadette refers to this as developing the ‘thinking classroom’ in which all learners can thrive. To date Bernadette has consulted on books and resources in Mathematics, English, Science and ICT. The Star Series was launched with Bernadette Tynan’s book, Challenging Gifted Children at 11-16 DIY which combines both a handbook for management and policy makers in Local Authorities and schools, with a ready-to-use practical teaching resource for school managers and teaching professionals. Bernadette Tynan has also been privileged to be involved in nationwide government projects to nurture talent in areas of economic disadvantage. She was appointed to lead, manage and design one of the first UK summer schools to identify and develop gifted children from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultural heritages. Bernadette also taught the maths element of the programme. The children involved in the successful scheme, which culminated in an awards dinner, combined both primary and secondary age ranges. Throughout her working life Bernadette Tynan has combined her practical experience with a rigorous programme of ongoing study across academic disciplines. This self-imposed regime ensures that she is always working at the cutting edge of new research, to bring her readers the latest information and knowledge. Interwoven with her practical working experience, her academic learning includes: child development and psychology, physiology and pharmacology (with special reference to the brain, ADHD and Hydrocephaly), High Functioning Children with Asperger’s Syndrome (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) focusing upon students she has taught with savant like qualities; namely savants are children with islets of ability, in for example Mathematics, but requiring special coaching in areas of known deficit such as emotional empathy; Management and organization for effective learning in education combined with educational research; Multiple Intelligences versus IQ; cultural anthropology in relation to attitudes toward child development; Monitoring and assessment in terms of individual ability, what can and cannot be measured by tests, and the socio-cultural as well as academic outcomes of government policy in education; Neural Nets and Computer Modelling in Cognitive Neuropsychology to better understand how the brain works. Knowledge doesn’t stand still and neither does Bernadette’s learning, writing and approach. Dedicated to empowering people with cutting edge knowledge; her writing mixes humour with scientific fact to present an entertaining but informative read. Bernadette’s motto is “ain’t nothing complex that can’t be made simple.” Everything is easy when you know how and Bernadette writes with you, the reader, living today’s busy life style, very much in mind. All the information you need is set down in quick bite-size pieces, so that you can dip in and out and get to know what you want, when you want. It is this friendly writing style that works to meet the needs of the busy reader that has enabled her ideas to translate effortlessly and so quickly across cultures. Bernadette Tynan began her working career in education, as Principal of a Private school in the Middle East for which she received prior training at Cambridge University and in Switzerland. A member of Mensa, she became interested in concepts of giftedness, intelligence and creativity and chose to develop her skills in research by undertaking both extensive academic learning, as given earlier, combined with practical experience. She chose purposely to work with a wide range of parents and children and teaching professionals, and in a variety of learning contexts. All this work has meant that her writing and approach is informed from a wide experience and perspective. At one time she combined work with Special Educational Needs, including children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Downs Syndrome, Hydrocephaly, Challenging Behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, (ADHD), Dyslexia and Visual Impairment whilst teaching English Literature, Religious Studies and English Language in state school, for which she received an excellence rating from OfSTED for her work in raising attainment of underachieving students. During evenings and weekends she worked supporting children of primary and secondary age ranges in government funded projects aimed at deprived inner-city centres, and children from different cultural heritages. Here she worked to provide academic mentoring and study support, across age groups and including Business Studies, History, Numeracy and Literacy, Art, English and French. Bernadette has worked in both private and state education and Local Authorities in management, leadership and advisory roles as Head of Department, Advisor, Consultant on Gifted and Talented as well as Minority Ethnic Education, and Principal. She has taught Ethics at A level for highly able students, and partaken in outward bound courses and Duke of Edinburgh Award ventures to develop self-esteem and self-confidence in students from different backgrounds and experiences. During her university years Bernadette worked as a volunteer with adults and mature students as a language and literacy mentor for people looking to enter and complete graduate studies. These 17 years of experience combined with academic knowledge, form the foundation upon which Bernadette has been able to build a highly informed perspective with regard to what does and does not work in successful learning, and how to identify and nurture individual gifts, talents and abilities, in different contexts. Einstein is alleged once to have said: ‘not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted’. For Bernadette, the value of every individual child cannot be measured. Nor can anyone put a number on the amount of natural creativity and imagination that every child is born with. History has shown cynicism to be the enemy of enthusiasm and innovation. Apathy hiding behind cynicism need not apply if we want to help all our children move forward to develop balanced and confident learning habits, and belief in their own abilities to take them through life. Bernadette and those that share her beliefs are working to do that, and the time is now. Selected Papers by Bernadette Tynan: Mind Matters, Paper and Core Course Material for Gifted and Talented MA programme, Research Centre for Able Children, Westminster Institute of Education (2001).
‘Many Words Do Not Fill a Basket’: What Measure Effective Education?
A critique of 'education as machine' and its impact on testing and assessment
35th Annual EUROFOR Conference, Burg Schlaining Conference and UN Training Centre, Austria (2002). Managing Mozart: Gifted and Talented Provision for the Global Knowledge Economy in 21C, Specialist Schools Trust 10th Annual Conference, Birmingham International Conference Centre, Prime Minister Blair in Attendance (2002). Creativity Exploded or Dominant Ideologies Continued? Implications of on-line tests for ability in virtual learning programmes, Institute of Education, University of London Conference: Toward the end of Education Systems? 20th Congress of the Comparative Education Society of Europe (2002). Developing Creative and Higher Level Thinking: Asian Children’s Literary Festival Conference, Singapore International Expo Centre, in Conjunction with Straits Times (2004). Bridging the Gap: Developing Culturally Intelligent Education Partnerships, Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), Kent Chamber of Commerce Lecture for Shanghai Mission Forum (2005). Developing Innovation and Creativity from Early Years to University: the future of State Education in China for Chinese Ministry of Education (2005). Bernadette Tynan originates from the seat of the Tynan family, Cashel in Southern Ireland. Although born in the UK, from an early age she and her family travelled first to Northern Ireland and then on to the Middle East. Her father was an engineer on key infrastructure contracts, such as hospitals and manufacturing plants, and this took the family throughout development projects in the Middle East, including Dubai, where Bernadette went to international school, and her mother was school nurse and assistant in kindergarten classes. Today Bernadette divides her working life between homes in the UK, France and Singapore. For relaxation she enjoys being out in the open air walking, gardening and occasionally opera. The latter she puts down to the fact that she turned down the possibility of a scholarship for singing to pursue her top priority: her research interests in learning and ability, but she does still like to sing along when she can. The interest in gardening she puts down to her early university student days. To earn money during the summer holidays to fund her studies, she worked weeding and pruning acres of plants in a garden nursery, and was employed as a city parks and maintenance person, where she weeded and pruned the city’s summer flowerbeds to keep them in tip top condition. In the process she found that being out in the fresh air, walking miles working in the city parks and gardens all helped to keep her in shape, even if it did wreck her nails completely! Bernadette’s main interest though is the charity Beautiful Minds which works to provide a website area where children can showcase their creativity and talents, and which runs regular competitions for schools, visit: beautifulminds.co.uk. Bernadette Tynan is a member of the American International Mind Brain and Education Society and Mensa. Thanks for development of this website goes to Bespoke Internet, Seal Films members of the Royal Television Society, of which Bernadette Tynan is also a member, and Briffa Lawyers. |
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