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b"Welcome SwitchedON! Crew. Dan here with today\\u2019s Signals around Creating Confident Learners. With me is Ger Graus the global Director of Education for KidZania. A great quote from Ger in the Episode: \\u201cconfident people perform better so the idea that we enable our children and girls in particular, to become more confident learners, has to be a good thing.\\u201d\\u2026.. Come Join us and Enjoy the show!\\nResources\\nhttps://usa.kidzania.com/en-us/ (Kidzania)\\nSubscribe to Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/switched-on/id1539549156 (Apple) | https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vc2lnbmFsc3NlY3JldC8= (Google) | https://open.spotify.com/show/76yez39VhVe7ZRdvVNThQT (Spotify) | https://www.stitcher.com/show/signalssecret (Stitcher) \\n3 Great Signals From Ger\\n1) Schools Teach Creativity out of children\\n2) Every Child is Everyone\\u2019s Responsibility\\n3) You let them find the reason why learning is important\\nNOTES FROM SHOW\\nGer Graus: Enabling Children to be more confident learners\\u2026.\\nWelcome to the switched on podcast. Today we have Ger Graus with us. Ger is a global Director of Education for KidZania, and he's a champion of true learning and making a positive impact on kids and others. I'm excited to have Ger on the show. Welcome Ger, please if you can give people a bit more background beyond what I've just done in the intro and then we'll dive into some of the discussion.\\nGer Graus 0:55 \\nI am from London via all sorts of places I was born in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands Italia Maastricht, and I went to school there went to uni there. There weren't many teaching jobs in Holland in those days, so I decided to move to England for a year and get some experience and then I was going to move back. So 37 years later, I still haven't moved back. Because I moved to England to a place called Norwich I liked it very much like children are taught. And that kind of life, plays with you if she got a promotion to expand and move Norwich to to hold in the north of England, and more promotion with to Manchester. And in my journeys I kind of moved from teaching in a very small school in orange, which was which was reasonably affluent to them starting to work quite deliberately on some of the very deprived council estates, that are dotted around our city so I moved from old Manchester from Manchester to neighboring Salford, and then eventually left teaching because I can't have enough love of teaching, but for being taught or being told what to teach. And, and government policy and testing and are moved into the learning of school. As started a Patreon coaching University. For Kidzania, and before that I was advisor, specter a teacher, and you name it so. So that's where I am and that's where I've ended up doing now. And my role is global which until February of 20 tracking brilliant travel everywhere.\\nDan Riordan 2:55 \\nYeah, well that's a that's a quite a journey and a great string of different perspectives of the learning, and how you've pushed into expanding that so I love the love it when you, when you look at the you know about your message and about your distinction on the learning and the knowledge and how we all gather that knowledge, one of the things that you said in the pre show in the in our discussion was children can only aspire to what they know exists, or some version, like that is what you'd said, I'd love for you to explore that a little bit and give me a little bit more insight on your thoughts there.\\nGer Graus 3:52 \\nWhen I moved to Norwich all those years ago I was a language teacher I was taught German. And there were many arguments made that, why should people in the United Kingdom learn the language because the world speaks English so why bother. And so what I did. and remember this is pre emails or pre FaceTime. I passed all the children I taught with another school in Germany, and we connected those kids in those days via letters or faxes, and they visited our homes and they..."